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The French-Canadian folk band La Volée d'Castors was formed in Lanaudière, Quebec, in 1993 by musicians Nicolas Froment, Mathieu Lacas, Martin Mailhot, and Sébastien Parent. After releasing their first album, Galant, in 1994, they recruited accordionist Frédéric Bourgeois and offered their first show outside of Quebec at the Northern Lights Festival Boréal in Sudbury, Ontario, followed by their first international performance at a world folk festival in Saint-Malo, France in 1997. Par Monts et par Vaux, their second album, was released in 1998 and found the group making a series of TV and radio appearances, as well as playing their first US show at the 1999 New World Music Festival, in Vermont. Released in 2000, their third full-length VDC earned the group their first Juno Award nomination as well as a Félix award for Best Traditional Album in 2001. That year, Nicolas Froment quit the group and was replaced by Gaspésie's Steve Boulay. In 2003, La Volée d'Castors issued their fourth full-length Migration and embarked on a world tour throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. Over the next few years, the group welcomed new members André Dupuis and Frédéric Beauséjour, recorded their first live album (2005's Y'a du Monde à Messe), and took home another Félix award for the holiday album L'Album du Temps des Fêtes (2006), which featured a rendition of the Christmas classic "Le Bonhomme de neige." In 2011, the group was awarded with their third Félix Award for Best Traditional Album for their sixth studio effort, Le Retour (2010).
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