FME kicked off Thursday evening at Cabaret De La Derniere Chance with a performance from Val D'Or's Chantal Archambault. This was kind of a big deal for Rouyn (and for her), since she's practically a hometown girl. Archambault was celebrating the release of her Romance Des Couteaux (Knives' Romance) album. Her country rock is drawn equally from English-Canadian acts like Neil Young, traditional French-Canadian country, Hank Snow and even American acts like Johnny Cash. The venue was packed for her set, which was a sweltering sweatfest largely because it had no air conditioning. Nonetheless, I and most of the other people there seemed to enjoy her set.