Sweltering Songs 2022: Sunset with Les Hotesse D’Hilaire & Aquakultre @ Carleton Street Tent

Sweltering Songs 2022: Carleton Street Tent – Sunset with Les Hotesse D’Hilaire & Aquakultre
Saturday, July 16th
Carleton Street Tent – Saturday Rips – Wet/Dry
Doors 8:15pm
$15.00 plus tax and fees
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Les Hôtesses is 4 studio albums and 2 live from 2012 to 2020. It’s also hundreds of shows everywhere between Acadia and Jamaica. But 2020 was difficult for the group. A little shows, a little music, a little beer, a little bus, a little fun…. One of them became a nurse, I think, the other went to talk to trees in Gaspésie. Two of them became sound engineers, and the other became a driver for movie stars. At one point, there’s a wise man who said, “It’s going to be fine”. Eventually, no one in the group ran out of toilet paper and the members woke up in 2022, ready to roll.

The album “Pas l’temps d’niiser” is an album faithful to the Hôtesses d’Hilaire, but in order to avoid redundancy and with the desire to explore a new narrative framework, the result is a slightly softer album. and melodious. The experimentation with vocal harmonies and the place left to instrumental pieces make this album a work that stands out from the previous ones. With the arrival of a new bassist, Rémi Arsenault, the forced rest from the pandemic, the experience and the abundance of time, the Hôtesses d’Hilaire took a trip to the studio with confidence to deliver an album that was realized brilliantly by Pierre-Guy Blanchard, up to their satisfaction.
Lance Sampson, aka Aquakultre (lyricist; vocals; guitar): an uncommonly versatile singer, rapper, composer, bandleader and storyteller. He is a Polaris Prize-nominated, and Prism Prize-winning artist who came to national prominence in 2018 when he won CBC’s Searchlight competition with a recording of his song “Sure”, which he wrote while teaching himself to play guitar while serving a prison sentence at Springhill Institution in Nova Scotia. Lance traces roots through his childhood home in Halifax’s Uniacke Square community to his ancestors in Africville, through the United States and ultimately to Nigeria; His music and lyrics are a poignant reflection of this truth, the story of his personal evolution, and his place in community as an African-Nova Scotian. Aquakultre stands for equality, peace and unity, while standing with those without a voice in their communities.