Diverse, lively and colorful programs will highlight the Chautauqua and French Festival. Coulee, a band from Saint-Laurent, Manitoba, will bring traditional French-Canadian and Metis music mixed with modern, high energy shows to the Red River Valley. Coulee (pronounced coo lay) will give a concert at the Empire Arts Center in Grand Forks, N.D., on Thursday, Aug. 26 at 8 p.m.
On Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 28 and 29, Coulee will perform at festival at the Old Treaty Crossing Park near Red Lake Falls, MN. The band will also play at a dance on Saturday night at The Spot in Red Lake Falls.
Amoussa Koriko, native of Togo, West Africa, is a playwright and professional African dancer and drummer. He will give presentations both afternoons.
Virgil Benoit, Associate Professor of French at the University of North Dakota, will interview Bobby Whitefeather, former chairman of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians Tribal Council.
Benoit, who lives at Huot, will also give a presentation on the history of the area where Indians, traders, Metis and trains of ox carts once camped. Near the crossing of the Red Lake River, the Treaty of 1863 was signed between Chippewa bands and the U.S. government involving more than 11 million acres comprising the Red River Valley of the North.
Throughout the weekend, there will be crafts and arts displays, clay works, make-and-take crafts and flowers for children and working artists. Bread will be baked in one of the only earth ovens in the region.
Tourtiere – French meat pie – and walleye (Sunday only) will be available in the food tent. Other foods and ice cream will be available all weekend.
The annual festival at Old Crossing is a celebration of the French presence in North America and the history of the Red River Valley. It is sponsored by The Association of the French of the North.
Admission is free to all the events and everyone is welcome.
The Old Crossing and Treaty Park is seven miles northeast of Gentilly, MN on County Road 11 or 10 miles west of Red Lake Falls, just off of Red Lake Co. Rd. 3.
For more information on the Chautauqua and French Festival, contact Anne Healy at 218-253-2833 or Virgil Benoit at 218-253-2270.
This project has been financed in part with funds provided by the State of Minnesota through the Northwest Regional Development Commission through funding from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Minnesota State Legislature and the McKnight Foundation, Red Lake County Historical Society and IF idwest.
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Diverse, lively and colorful programs will highlight the Chautauqua and French Festival. Coulee, a band from Saint-Laurent, Manitoba, will bring traditional French-Canadian and Metis music mixed with modern, high energy shows to the Red River Valley. Coulee (pronounced coo lay) will give a concert at the Empire Arts Center in Grand Forks, N.D., on Thursday, Aug. 26 at 8 p.m.
On Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 28 and 29, Coulee will perform at festival at the Old Treaty Crossing Park near Red Lake Falls, MN. The band will also play at a dance on Saturday night at The Spot in Red Lake Falls.
Amoussa Koriko, native of Togo, West Africa, is a playwright and professional African dancer and drummer. He will give presentations both afternoons.
Virgil Benoit, Associate Professor of French at the University of North Dakota, will interview Bobby Whitefeather, former chairman of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians Tribal Council.
Benoit, who lives at Huot, will also give a presentation on the history of the area where Indians, traders, Metis and trains of ox carts once camped. Near the crossing of the Red Lake River, the Treaty of 1863 was signed between Chippewa bands and the U.S. government involving more than 11 million acres comprising the Red River Valley of the North.
Throughout the weekend, there will be crafts and arts displays, clay works, make-and-take crafts and flowers for children and working artists. Bread will be baked in one of the only earth ovens in the region.
Tourtiere – French meat pie – and walleye (Sunday only) will be available in the food tent. Other foods and ice cream will be available all weekend.
The annual festival at Old Crossing is a celebration of the French presence in North America and the history of the Red River Valley. It is sponsored by The Association of the French of the North.
Admission is free to all the events and everyone is welcome.
The Old Crossing and Treaty Park is seven miles northeast of Gentilly, MN on County Road 11 or 10 miles west of Red Lake Falls, just off of Red Lake Co. Rd. 3.
For more information on the Chautauqua and French Festival, contact Anne Healy at 218-253-2833 or Virgil Benoit at 218-253-2270.
This project has been financed in part with funds provided by the State of Minnesota through the Northwest Regional Development Commission through funding from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Minnesota State Legislature and the McKnight Foundation, Red Lake County Historical Society and IF idwest.
Chautauqua and French Festival Schedule at Huot Park
Friday, Aug. 27 - 9 p.m., bonfire, songs and storytelling.
Saturday, Aug. 28 - 11 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Food served by John and Griffin St. Marie
12:30 p.m. - Welcome to the Old Crossing
1:00 p.m. - Coulee Metis Band performance
2:00 p.m. - Virgil Benoit Interview with Bobby Whitefeather
3:00 p.m. - Amoussa Koriko, playwright and professional African dancer and drummer
5:00 p.m. - Mass at the Shrine of our Blessed Mother
9:00 p.m. - Coulee dance at The Spot in Red Lake Falls
Sunday, Aug. 29 - 8:45 a.m. Firing of the bread oven
11:00 a.m. Food Tent opens
1:00 p.m. - Coulee performance
2:00 p.m. - Local history presentation
3:00 p.m. - Amoussa Koriko presentation
3:30 p.m. - Silent auction bids close
3:30 p.m. - Final batch of bread goes in the earth oven
All programs and activities are appropriate for families. You can even bring the dog.
