Nicole Beaudry

Nicole Beaudry (August 26, 1945, Montréal, Canada) is a Canadian ethnomusicologist.

After classical studies at the Basile-Moreau College, Beaudry studied musicology at McGill University and anthropology at Laval University before turning to ethnomusicology. From 1974 to 1980 she was a member of the Groupe de recherches en sémiologie musicale directed by Jean-Jacques Nattiez at the University of Montréal.

Beaudry studied drum rhythms in Haitian voodoo, in collaboration with the drummer Georges Rodriguez (1979-80); Cree hunting songs from Chisasibi, in the Québec Arctic; music and traditional games of the Athapascans of the Northwest Territories.

Her field trips include a study of the Inuit in Cape Dorset, NWT (1974, 1975, 1978), in Ivujivik, Que (1978, 1980), in southwestern Alaska (1980-1), and in Inukjuak, Que (1984), and of the Dene tribes located at Fort Norman, Fort Franklin and Fort Good Hope, NWT (1988, 1989, 1990).