page_title: Vishtèn
hierarchical_section_title: Vishtèn
caption_attribution_description: Acdian band Vishten plays Canadian music with French and Celtic roots during a Homegrown Concert Series performance, March 21, 2019. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress. Note: Privacy and publicity rights for individuals depicted may apply.
context_page_description: Vishtèn is a Canadian folk music group from Prince Edward Island and the Magdalen Islands, whose style is rooted in Acadian music. The group consists of vocalists and instrumentalists Pastelle and Emmanuelle LeBlanc, and instrumentalist Pascal Miousse. They are most noted for their 2018 album Horizons, which received a Juno Award nomination for Traditional Roots Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2019.
  The band includes instruments such as fiddle, electric guitar, accordion, mandolin, whistles, jaw harp, foot percussion and bodhran.
  Horizons also won several awards from Music PEI, including best francophone artist, group recording and roots traditional recording. In 2018 they also collaborated with Joseph Edgar, Lisa LeBlanc, Robin-Joël Cool, Wanabi Farmeur, Caroline Savoie and Édith Butler on the album Grand tintamarre! - Chansons et comptines acadiennes, which won the Canadian Folk Music Award for Best Children's Album at the 14th Canadian Folk Music Awards.
context_section_description: Vishtèn is a Canadian folk music group from Prince Edward Island and the Magdalen Islands, whose style is rooted in Acadian music. The group consists of vocalists and instrumentalists Pastelle and Emmanuelle LeBlanc, and instrumentalist Pascal Miousse. They are most noted for their 2018 album Horizons, which received a Juno Award nomination for Traditional Roots Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2019.
  The band includes instruments such as fiddle, electric guitar, accordion, mandolin, whistles, jaw harp, foot percussion and bodhran. 
  Horizons also won several awards from Music PEI, including best francophone artist, group recording and roots traditional recording. In 2018 they also collaborated with Joseph Edgar, Lisa LeBlanc, Robin-Joël Cool, Wanabi Farmeur, Caroline Savoie and Édith Butler on the album Grand tintamarre ! - Chansons et comptines acadiennes, which won the Canadian Folk Music Award for Best Children's Album at the 14th Canadian Folk Music Awards.
caption: Vishtèn performs at the Library of Congress in 2019
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