Les Rats d’Swompe

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The artist

Les Rats d’Swompe are a Franco-Ontarian trad-rock band based in Ottawa, Ontario, with roots in Northern and Eastern Ontario. Their music brings French-Canadian traditional songs, call-and-response singing, original compositions, and fiddle reels into a live sound shaped by rock, pop, and punk. The current 2026 booking biography names Yan, Patrick, Martin, Brandon, and Noah as the stage lineup. That source supersedes older public biographies that named Simon Joly on drums, preserving a documented lineup transition without treating the two rosters as simultaneous. Vivre en ville opened the verified principal catalog in March 2018 and gave the band a national francophone radio breakthrough through its title track. Élixir followed in January 2022, produced by Rob Langlois and mixed by Fred St-Gelais, and received a 2022 ADISQ nomination for Rock Album of the Year. The seven-song Pause gorgée! Vol. 1 arrived in November 2023 and won the 2024 GAMIQ award for Roots Album or EP. Pays sauvage was released by Agence 49e Parallèle on March 20, 2026. Its eleven songs extend the band’s road-tested mix of fiddle, electric guitars, group vocals, stories, and legends. The exact Spotify identity contains fourteen principal album and single containers in the Canadian market from March 2018 through March 2026: three provider-classified albums and eleven provider-classified singles. Spotify places the seven-song Pause gorgée! Vol. 1 in its single classification, while Apple Music presents it among the artist’s albums and EPs. MusicList preserves that provider difference instead of silently recategorizing the release. Representative releases are Pays sauvage, Pause gorgée! Vol. 1, Élixir, Vivre en ville, and Une frette. The group won the Trille Or prizes for Group and Export Ontario in 2023 and Export Ontario again in 2025. The Country Music Association of Ontario named the band Francophone Artist or Group of the Year in 2021, following a first consecutive win the year before. Its April 2026 feature also documented Une frette reaching number one on the Hit Country network and the top three outside Quebec. Current activity includes official June and July 2026 dates in Quebec and Ontario, an Ottawa Bluesfest performance, and a later Ontario date listed by the DSPs. The official website, current booking agency, exact Spotify and Apple Music identities, and linked social profiles form the retained public platform set. Professional inquiries route through the artist-controlled contact page without republishing the direct email addresses and telephone numbers displayed there. Spotify media is rendered live with provider attribution and a monogram fallback.