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"Chansons françaises" - music from France's soul
Working-class ballads that poets take up
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Traditional bistros with excellent cuisine suit these events, but request about 40 participants to reserve space.
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For smaller groups, our Parisian members can make up the numbers, for an evening that becomes even more convivial.
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that are loved as they are or that poets, like Cohen or Dylan, have turned into music that the whole nation knows. Our artists' repertoires differ - and they may sift in songs in travelers' languages, interpreting them, of course, "à la française".
• This young woman, for example, finds Piaf a natural...
yet because she has lived in the United States, Broadway is too.
Other facets of her repertoire ...
• "Piaf's style was intense - mine sparkles!"
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 - "La Parisienne" - one of her incarnations
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 - La patronne
We first heard this ebulliant artist in a smoke-filled Pigalle café. We've changed the venue to a Bastille bistro where la patronne adds to the ambiance...
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 - L'époque
Some songs come from her grandmother, others everyone knows.
•Great poetry, superb popular music
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•Recordings
 - The chanson inspired the loving gesture.
 - Later
Léo Férré, Jacques Brel, Barbara ... are songwriters and performers with which French people grew up. Our artist translates some of the verses into English - then visitors discover beloved chansons.
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 - Songs by Ferré, Aragon, Barbara - to discover
Creator of several original shows, for Parisian theaters and the Avignon festival, in 2007 notre chanteuse was also a cast-member of Hair.
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•A poet steps out of the dark
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When the bus that was to take him to an exam was late, this student suddenly realized that he did not want to become a professor. He strode off, and for five years sold tickets at Beaubourg during the day and composed songs at night, singing them for a young public without media attention.
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Now he has recorded CDs, been interviewed on the national radio and performed in well-known theaters.
Influenced by Rimbaud, Poe and science fiction, extremely energetic and intense, his performance is riveting. En français.
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 - Warming up...
When a communications company asked us to find accordeonists for an event, the President of the association that unites most of Paris's accordeonists (wearing the cap) hand-picked this group.
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"Out of the dark" / Jacques Liber
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