page_title: La Musique des Voltigeurs de Québec
section_title: Traditional and modern activities
hierarchical_section_title: La Musique des Voltigeurs de Québec / Traditional and modern activities
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Fanfare militaire des Voltigeurs de Québec
context_page_description: The La Musique des Voltigeurs de Québec is the regimental band of the Les Voltigeurs de Québec. It is currently led by Captain François Dorion, a professional saxophonist and percussionist and a member of the regiment since 1991.
  It was created on February 14, 1866 as the first Francophone military band, and quickly gained a reputation among authorities and the general public. The band was instrumental in the first performance of O Canada, the Canadian national anthem, in 1880 at the National Congress of the St. John the Baptist Society. It would soon go through many reorganizations during both world wars that would shape the band into its current form.
context_section_description: The Voltigeurs musical schedule includes several activities: 
  Military Parades
  Regimental Dinners
  Concerts
  Regimental Holidays
  State Dinners
  Presentation of Colours
  Graduation Parades
  The musicians of the band are, for the most part, professionals trained at the Conservatoire de Québec and the Faculty of Music at Laval University. It has recorded and released many albums, with the most recent one being launched in 2008 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Quebec City. The band has participated in a number of editions of the Quebec City International Festival of Military Bands until the tattoo's final event in 2013. In 2018, the band participated in the reopening of the Quebec City Armoury by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
  Following the example of the Queen's Own Rifles of Canada Band & Bugles, the band also has a drum and bugle corps, being one of the few in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) in active service.
caption: The band in Occupational Dress.
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