FRANCO-AMERICAN OF THE YEAR 1983

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M. Normand L. Ayotte
Franco-American of the Year 1983
Lowell, Massachusetts
 

 

It is through music that Normand Ayotte made his contribution to the preservation of the French language and Franco-American culture. Having his musical abilities from his parents, he was choir director at Ste-Jeanne d’Arc church for 35 years. He is the founding-director of LA CHORALE ORION.  A choral group founded to perpetuate the ethnic music composed by the Champagne Brothers.  La Chorale Orion performed extensively throughout New England.