Raising the bar

By Tim Richards
April 6 2014 - 3:00am
Chanson Bar, Quebec City. Photo: Tim Richards
Chanson Bar, Quebec City. Photo: Tim Richards

We're sitting in a bar in a cellar in Quebec City, keen for a local musician to take to the stage and sing to us in French. For one thing, his arrival would stop the recorded music that has been playing since we entered, a random mix of English-language pop songs that wouldn't be out of place on an iPod's retro-party playlist.

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