Gilles Vigneault's powerful dream of un pays

Mon cher Gilles, c’est à ton tour de te laisser parler d’amour …
Writing his own answer to Happy Birthday, Gilles Vigneault came up with a classic destined to be sung every time someone blows out the candles in Quebec. As it happens, when Oct. 27 rolls around, Vigneault himself will try to extinguish 90 of them.
But Gens du pays, first performed in public 43 Fête nationale weekends ago, soon became more than a song to sing before the cake gets passed around or the