Les Hôtesses d'Hilaire

In 2018 the band receive critical acclaim for the Rock opera Viens avec moi, which was also released as both a live and a studio album.

[2] The band became the object of controversy when in 2017, while playing in the Radio-Canada show Entrée Principale, Serge Brideau performed wearing a pink dress.

This led notably to a direct call-out of New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs unilingualism at the Acadian World Congress (Congrès Mondial Acadien) in 2019.

[5] The band's frontman, Serge Brideau, is also a vocal advocate against numerous social and economical issues, among which conjugal violence.

[7] Il the spring of 2022, the Edmundston-base brewery Brasserie du Petit-Sault released a tribute Witbier called "Hilaire à boire".