Today, Acadian artist P’tit Belliveau shares a new music video for the song Stand There, from his debut album Greatest Hits Vol.1 or, if you prefer, the album that we didn’t know we needed (Sara Barrière-Brunet, VOIR). The animated video was created by Vincent Bilodeau, who also recently offered us the video for L’eau entre mes doigts. This track always makes me dance, said Vincent. I’m clearly not the only one, even the 3D folks react strongly!
Watch and share the video for Stand There via YouTube.
The album Greatest Hits Vol.1 is available on all music services. CDs and vinyls can be purchased on Bonsound’s online boutique.
P’tit Belliveau also announces a concert in Montreal at Le Ministère on November 26th, 2020. Tickets are on sale now. More tour dates will be announced as soon as possible.
Released on March 27th via Bonsound, Greatest Hits Vol.1 is a purposeful compilation of simple and comforting stories about the sea, and fighting small battles without making waves. P'tit Belliveau [...] can sing about black bears, boats in the bay or blowing his income tax return on booze and Taco Bell all the while bringing the funk with banjo-fuelled bluegrass and disco-driven country, wrote Darcy MacDonald in CultMTL.
The electro-tinged country-folk album, co-produced by P’tit Belliveau and Emmanuel Ethier, and mixed by Samuel Gemme and Ethier, charmed anglophone and francophone critics alike, scoring 8/10 in CultMTL and Le canal auditif, 7/10 in Exclaim and 4 stars in the Journal de Montréal. On Radio-Canada, Tatiana Polevoy recognized that it’s a huge concentration of happiness and joy [...] It’s cool, intelligent and refined, while Nicolas Ouellet declared it’s joyful, it’s profound, it’s pop music, it’s country music, it’s everything we want in 2020. As we learned via their quarantine journals on VOIR, many Quebecois artists also enjoy P’tit Belliveau’s music, including BEYRIES, Corridor and Klô Pelgag.
About P’tit Belliveau
Hailing from Baie-Ste-Marie, Nova Scotia, P’tit Belliveau grew up in an insular francophone community surrounded by anglophones. Nevertheless, he made himself known at the 2019 Francouvertes, a French-language music contest, where he reached the finals alongside O.G.B. and Alex Burger. For nearly a year now he has lived in Moncton, New Brunswick, where he still embraces his hometown’s sense of community. Lakes, fishing and nature reside at the heart of the singer-songwriter’s universe.
Music took root in his heart thanks to Baie-Ste-Marie’s local community radio station, where he gathered the first snippets of what would become his style. They often played DIY songs, which influenced P’tit Belliveau’s own lo-fi sounds, along with his desire to put drum machines front and center in folk/bluegrass songs. Hip-hop and electro music also found a place in his life, and early on he felt a calling to perform behind the DJ booth. He produced beats for rappers with one hand and collected banjos and guitars with the other. He eventually chose the country music path since words came to him more easily within that genre.
P’tit Belliveau is the guy-next-door who will spin a tale about everyday life like nobody else. The singer-songwriter stands out with his unique brand of electro-inspired country-folk music and his cassette tape aesthetic.