When singer Edith Butler was growing up in northern New Brunswick in the 1950s, the social and economic life of the Acadian people there had changed little in several hundred years. Some rarely left ...

Édith Butler (born Marie Nicole Butler, 27 July 1942) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and folklorist of Acadian descent. Édith Butler was born in Paquetville on the Acadian Peninsula in Gloucester ...

You couldn't find two bigger stars of Acadian music, despite the half-century between them. Édith Butler pioneered the genre, taking the traditional music she learned growing up in tiny Paquetville on ...