Pied-Noir at the end of the Algerian War until August 1969, when the French Minister of Veterans Affairs ("Ministre des Anciens Combattants") at the time, Henri Duvillard, lifted the prohibition. Pied-Noir Pied-Noir (, ""Black-Foot""), plural Pieds-Noirs, is a term primarily referring to people of European, mostly ethnic French origin, who were born in Algeria during the period of French rule from 1830 to 1962. More broadly, it can refer to other foreign-origin persons, both Christian and Jewish, from all parts of the Mediterranean whose families had also migrated under French occupation in the 19th and 20th centuries to French Algeria, the
The Pied Pumkin followed in 2000. The band released a children's album, "Pied Pumkids", in 2008. Mock lives in France and returns to Canada on occasion for performances with the Pied Pumkin or Pied Pear. Scott has recorded several popular albums for children, while Ulrich has had a lengthy solo career. The Pied Pumkin The Pied Pumkin was a band formed in 1973 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with Rick Scott on dulcimer and vocals, Joe Mock on guitar and vocals and Shari Ulrich on violin, alto sax, flute and vocals. The Kootenays were the Pumkin hotbed. The band formed the label Squash