AGRI-CULTURE
Cultivating Global Artistic Culture & Local Ecological Agriculture
"To promote the essential interconnectedness between global artistic culture and local ecological agriculture by striving to collaboratively co-create a world-class music series, summer music-culinary festival, artistic residencies, and a recording studio within the context of a socially-engaged ecological farm thereby cultivating an international yet locally-rooted creative community striving to reconnect with the rhythms and harmonies of nature inspired by ways of living and being more closely connected with the earth."
Symphony in the Barn
Glencolton Farms Cooperative
Durham, Ontario
Les Concerts de Saint-Grégoire
Ferme Cadet Roussel
Mont-Saint-Grégoire, Quebec
Novalis Hall
Camphill Communities Canada
Nottawasaga, Ontario
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Les Concerts de Saint-Grégoire
On October 26th, 2024 Les Concerts de Saint-Grégoire - a new concert series just outside of Montreal at the foot of Mont Saint-Grégoire was launched in the Grande Salle Agri-Culturelle at Ferme Cadet Roussel. As a pioneering farm in Quebec advancing organic and biodynamic farming practices, community supported agriculture (CSA) / Fermier de famille (Les Paniers Bio d’Equiettre) and Quebec’s first agricultural land trust (through the creation of Protec-Terre), ferme Cadet Roussel’s newest initiatives includes the launch of "Retour aux Sources", and the completion of La Grande Salle Agri-Culturelle. In response to the social isolation of the pandemic, Les Concerts de Saint-Grégoire was launched with the vision of renewing rural communities and local regenerative farming as a critical key to the current societal transformation of the environment, economy and culture.
The vision for the project began almost 20 years-ago while Vukovich was pursuing studies at McGill University’s School of Environment and launched Bach in a Barn - a series of solo violin recitals on farms in Quebec, filmed by Pierre Ducrocq of Radio Canada. However, it was not until Covid-19 created the opportunity for a summer music festival at Ferme Cadet Roussel (farming was an essential service not affected by the pandemic) and presenting concerts on farms became a viable economic and cultural reality.
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The Parcival Project
Founded and co-directed by Canadian violinist Emmanuel Vukovich with Ferme Cadet Roussel co-owners Anne Roussel and Arnaud Mayet, Les Concerts de Saint-Grégoire is produced and presented by The Parcival Project in collaboration Latitude 45 Arts. The Summer Festival will also involve the collaboration of Donna Williams - board member of The Parcival Project and former head of philanthropic development at McGill University’s Schulich School of Music.
An international creative community led by a spirit of collaboration & dedicated to transforming culture through the arts
Artistic Excellence
A continual striving for excellence in artistic quality
Collaborative Leadership
Cultivating leadership based on collaboration, cooperation, and trust
Transforming Culture
Transforming culture through advancing the evolving art form
“There is a knighthood of the 21st century whose riders do not ride through the darkness of forests, but through the forests of darkened minds. Out of them shines healing. They must create inner justice, peace, and conviction in the darkness of our time.” - Karl König
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For the launch of the inaugural 2025-26 Season, Les Concerts de Saint-Grégoire will host concerts, residencies, workshops, and recording projects between April-December 2025, and March-June 2026 featuring artists from across Quebec, Canada and internationally (USA, Mexico & Europe). On special occasions, the performances will be curated in collaboration with a culinary experience prepared by renowned Montreal chefs using local organic-biodynamic farm produce and products. The vision for these special events is to co-create a collaboration between the musical and culinary experience into a single celebration of excellence and tradition through community.
The following is list of musicians, artists, chefs and sound engineers participating in the innaugural 2025-26 season:
Chloé Saint-Marie, Philippe Sly, Jeremy Dutcher, Jacqueline Woodley Jean Saulnier, Stéphane Lemelin, Jean-Philippe Sylvestre, Dinuk Wijeratne, Illia Ovchaenko, Mathieu Gaudet, Meagan Milatz, Gili Loftus, Michael McMahon, Eugene Drucker, Timothy Chooi, Mark Fewer, Layale Chaker, Avery Morris, Elvira Misbakhova Pemi Paul, StéphaneTétreault Yegor Dyachkov, Elinor Frey, Noémie Raymond, Dominique Beauséjour-Ostiguy, Jake Charkey, Valérie Milot, Kinan Azmeh, Dominic Desautels, Lara Deutsch, Sophie Lemaire, Louis-Pierre Bergeron, Adam Kinner, Kwasi Frederic Dunyo, John Winter Russell, Frédéric Houtin.
At the end of July, a special festival is planned to invite the world renowned Mexican percussion ensemble Tambuco in celebration of cultural exchange resulting from Latino-American migrant farm workers who have become part of the Cadet Roussel family over the past several years and an agricultural reality on farms across Quebec, Canada and throughout North America.
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To inaugurate the season and fund these activities, Les Concerts de Saint-Grégoire is launching a capital campaign with the Quebec crowdfunding platform La Ruche to raise $100,000 between Feb 15-March 30th with a matching fund of $100,000 from the Quebec Minister of Tourism - Les Fonds Horizons d’ici.
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