Tap on image: Sisters Brigitte Jardin and Caroline Allatt
This episode features the jazz folk duo “The Horse Van” who performed at the Village Bakery’s outdoor stage in Haines Junction, Yukon, in the evening on Canada Day, 2016.
The duo“The Horse Van” are sisters Caroline Allatt and Brigitte Desjardins who grew up in Quebec.
Brigitte now calls Whitehorse in the Yukon her home, while her older sister Caroline settled in Vancouver, B.C. as professional musician.
Because the sisters are separated by 1800 miles, opportunities are rare for Caroline and Brigitte to perform together. So when Caroline announced her visit in Whitehorse, the women quickly made plans to perform as “The Horse Van”, a word play, on the names of the respective cities they call home.
After just a few days of rehearsal the duo was ready to perform. Caroline (guitar and lead vocals) and Brigitte (on drums) were joined on stage by Whitehorse jazz musician Olivier de Colombel on tenor saxophone and acoustic bass guitar.