Guillaume Picard

Ariane Racicot: Envolée

by Dan McClenaghan
May 12, 2022

Pianos pop up in odd places--airports, shopping malls, and Quebec's Mount Royal Park, where pianist Ariane Racicot strode up to a lonely upright, sat down and presented an unsuspecting crowd to a killer version of Queen's “Bohemian Rhapsody." This performance then popped up on YouTube, where it has garnered 18 million views. Racicot was a teenager at the time of that wow-the-crowd street performance. She is, as she releases her debut album Envolee in 2022, just twenty-five, but ...