Ouvrez les aboiteaux

Lennie a composé cette chanson pour le troisième Congrès mondial acadien tenu en Nouvelle-Écosse en 2004. Les aboiteaux étaient des systèmes de digues que les premiers Acadiens ont construits en utilisant les marées pour rendre plusieurs milliers d'acres de terre cultivables. Les aboiteaux permettaient à la lune de retirer l'eau des champs à marée basse et l'empêchait de revenir. C'est ironique que les Acadiens eux-mêmes ont été plus tard enlevés de leurs terres lors de la déportation et empêchés de revenir.
« Ouvrez les aboiteaux, laisse mon coeur revenir sur l'eau »
This is a song Lennie wrote for the third World Acadian Congress held in Nova Scotia in 2004. The aboiteaux were series of dikes and drains that the first Acadians built using the powerful tides to claim many thousands of acres of land in order to survive. The aboiteaux design would allow the moon to pull the water out of the fields on low tide but not allow it to return on the high. Ironic that Acadians themselves were later also pulled from the land with the devastating deportations and not allowed to return. The Acadian Congress gatherings were the first in 250 years to assemble over 200,000 Acadians and their Cajun cousins of Louisiana since that infamous event. The French chorus says:
“Open up the Aboiteaux…Let my heart return with the waters”
Lennie Gallant, voix et guitare
Patricia Richard, voix et percussion
Julien Robichaud, piano
Équipe technique :
Chris Knox, sonorisation, K-Audio
Dan Smith, appui technique
Mike Bernard, caméras
Greg MacArthur, éclairages
Patricia Richard, montage vidéo

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Came up from San Diego to Ottawa to see Lennie and his band perform a year or so before the pandemic. During the break, he was tuning and I asked for this song. Although it had been awhile since they had performed it, he honored my request and they made it one of the closing songs. Thanks Lennie!