Last modified: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 5:18 PM EDT Chanterelle performs Saturday at the Blackstone River Theatre in Cumberland, R.I. GO: Revel in French-Canadian music, dance BY RICK FOSTER STAFF WRITER For any Blackstone Valley and Attleboro area residents trace their heritage to French Canada through the migration of thousands of their forbears to work in the area’s textile mills during the 1800 and 1900s. For many that heritage comes with a love of French language folk music, traditional fiddling and step dancing filtered through generations of Canadians and their descendants. Blackstone River Theatre, 549 Broad St., Cumberland, R.I., will present a concert of French music with Chanterelle, featuring Josee Vachon, and The Beaudoin Legacy at 8 p.m. Saturday. There will also be workshops from 1-4 p.m. Saturday. Admission is $15 for each of the three workshops (French fiddling, 1-1:50 p.m.; French step dance and foot percussion, 2-2:50 p.m. and French singing 3-3:50 p.m.) and $18 for Saturday’s concert. For reservations or information call 401-725-9272 or visit www.riverfolk.org. Other places, other faces The Dillonaires of Jackson, Miss., received a warm reception when they were featured at the Taunton River Folk Festival last fall, and the family group is back this weekend just in time for the release of their new CD on New Bedford’s Wepecket Island Records. The trio will be performing at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at Steve’s Backstage Pass, 15 School St., Taunton. STheir new disc, “Dirty Dusty Road,” was released by jazz and bluesman Jack Radcliffe, a former high school bandmate of Sen. John Kerry who runs the WI label. Family and band patriarch Sherman Lee Dillon, an environmentalist who once garnered 16,000 votes as the Green Party’s candidate for Mississippi governor, leads a band composed of son John and daughter Anna Lee. Sherman Lee, 56, likes to say the band is a case of “Ralph Stanley meets Peter, Paul and Mary.” The slide guitar and banjo player, who worked as a consultant to the film “Brother, Where Art Thou,” has represented Mississippi in several blues competitions. The opening act for the Friday show will be world-renown finger-style guitar troubadour Andy Cohen. For the Saturday show the opener will be up-and-coming blueswoman Marylou Ferrante. Tickets are $10. For more information visit www.stevesbackstagepass.com or call 508-236-3436. Since we last saw and heard her at the Rose Garden Coffeehouse in Mansfield, Antje Duvekot has shot upward in the awareness of the international folk audience based partly on her debut studio CD “Big Dream Boulevard.” The release was voted the top folk release of 2006 by the Boston Globe and was named one of the top 10 releases of the year by National Public Radio’s Folk Alley. Duvekot also swiped top prizes in the John Lennon Songwriting Competition, the Kerrville Folk Festival and the Boston Music Awards, and got Super Bowl exposure for one of her songs as the result of a Bank of America advertising campaign. Duvekot will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Circle of Friends Coffeehouse at the First Universalist Society Meetinghouse in Franklin. Patti DeRosa will open. Tickets are $15. For more information visit www.circlefolk.org. E The Laws and Les Sampou play in a double bill Saturday at Stone Soup Coffeehouse, which is held at St. Paul’s Church, 50 Park Place, Pawtucket. Tickets are $15 for the 8 p.m. show. All that jazz Chan’s Jazz and Blues Concert Series will present an evening of Chicago blues featuring Luther “Guitar Jr.” Johnson and the Magic Rockers, on Friday, March 28, for two shows at 8 and 10 p.m. Chan’s is located at 267 Main St., Woonsocket, R.I.  Admission is $15 for the 8 p.m. show, $10 for the 10 p.m. show or $18 for both. SE Sunday Night Jazz, the Attleboro-Taunton area’s only weekly jazz showcase, presents a split bill Sunday with a passel of jazz-influenced pop by pianist-songwriter Adam Goldberg and the Frasco-Rohrer duo beginning at 7 p.m. Tickets are $7. Rick Foster blogs on jazz in southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island at http://grassrootsjazz.blogspot.com.