Aleksi Campagne is a bilingual indie-folk fiddle-singer and songwriter from Montréal whose music brings the traditions of the violin into a contemporary world of layered sound, lyrical songwriting and live looping. His distinctive approach has earned growing recognition across Canada. Campagne was named Francophone Songwriter of the Year at the 2024 Canadian Folk Music Awards for his debut album, For the Giving / Sans rien donner, and was selected as Penguin Eggs and Roots Music Canada’s New Discovery of the Year. Campagne’s debut album made bilingualism part of the music’s very structure, which Roots Music Canada called, “one of the most musically ambitious accomplishments of the year.” In Le Devoir critic Sylvain Cormier situated the album in proximity to the musical worlds of Half Moon Run and Patrick Watson.

In 2025, he was a finalist for the Prix relève Télé-Québec Arts and Culture Prize. In 2026, he won the 32nd edition of Ma première Place des Arts, one of Québec’s longstanding songwriting competitions where he also received the Prix Distinction de la Caisse Desjardins de la Culture, the Étoiles Stingray award, and the Hydro-Québec Song of the Year prize for the song “Rome” on his debut album. The momentum only continued throughout 2026. After opening the 37th edition of the Francos de Montréal, Campagne was chosen to take part in Les Escales en chanson at the Festival en chanson de Petite-Vallée, where he was awarded several prizes, including a forthcoming feature on the popular Quebec TV show Belle et Bum. In August, he became a finalist at the 58th Festival international de la chanson de Granby, collecting eight individual prizes over the course of the competition, including the coveted SOCAN Songwriting Prize for his song “Je bois,” to be released on his next album.

Campagne’s work occupies the space between the inherited and the invented: a contemporary form of fiddle-singing in which folk tradition becomes the raw material for something unmistakably his own. He began recording and performing as a child alongside
members of his family before furthering his musical education; He studied classical and jazz violin at McGill University and spent two years in Paris studying with jazz violinist Didier Lockwood, himself a student of Stéphane Grappelli. That combination of folk inheritance, jazz improvisation and formal violin training remains audible in a style that treats the fiddle not simply as accompaniment, but as a rhythmic, melodic and textural extension of the voice.