Visitors do a French-Canadian dance during the Dec. 3 Lake Linden musical celebration. (Photo © 2005 Michele Anderson)

Singers, from left, Jan Wieber of Chassell, Dave Bezotte, Jenny Veenstra on banjo and Wellesley Pereira on guitar sing several French songs during the Lake Linden French-Canadian Christmas event. (Photo © 2005 Michele Anderson)

Patrick Beausoleil, Master of Ceremonies, reads "A Christmas Réveillon," a humorous French-Canadian Christmas story, during the Dec. 3 musical celebration in Lake Linden. (Photo © 2005 Michele Anderson)

In honor of French Canadian voyageurs, Eli Ochshorn, Michigan Tech graduate student in physics, who studied in Montreal, sings "Halfway to Mackinaw" during the Lake Linden Christmas musical event. (Photo © 2005 Michele Anderson)

Mike Robertson, recent Ph.D. graduate of the Michigan Tech Humanities Department, leads the singers (group at left) and the audience in singing the French-Canadian favorite, "En Roulant Ma Boule." In the foreground, right, is Heidi Bostic, MTU professor of French, who brought students from one of her French classes for the Lake Linden event. (Photo © 2005 Michele Anderson)

Michigan Tech French students Jessica Dorvinen and Jon Soper enjoy the dancing during the French-Canadian Christmas music event in Lake Linden. (Photo © 2005 Heidi Bostic)

Barry Pegg, MTU professor of English, sings a solo in French -- the favorite French drinking song "Chevaliers de la table ronde" -- during the  French-Canadian Christmas musical event in Lake Linden. (Photo © 2005 Michele Anderson)

Mark Oliver of Chassell leads the audience in singing "Vive la Compagnie" during the Dec. 3 Lake Linden Christmas musical event. (Photo © 2005 Michele Anderson)