Comme une Française
Love changes over the years, and nothing expresses it better than this romantic love song in French by Belgian singer Jacques Brel.
Welcome back to this special series, where I teach you how to learn French using love songs in French! Today, I have a beautiful, quite melancholic song for you to discover. Love changes. A couple is not the same after a lifetime together. Jacques Brel explains that very well when he writes the beautiful, beautiful La Chanson des Vieux Amants (= Song of the Old Lovers.) Let’s use this song to learn more about romantic French. Perhaps you can practice saying these lyrics to your significant other?
Take care and stay safe. 😘 from Grenoble, France.
Géraldine
Category: Music
Rodolphe Burger streaming concert
Source: Rodolphe Burger – Regarder le programme complet | ARTE Concert
Tim Dup – Concert acoustique au Théâtre de La Ville
Pas de Merde favorite, Tim Dup performs at Théâtre de La Ville
SETLIST :
Intro
Pertusato
Je te laisse
Une autre histoire d’amour
Soleil noir
Mortelle Habanera
Vendredi soir
Mélancolie heureuse
Porte du soleil
Mourir vieux
La vie ne vaut rien
Vers les ourses polaires
Place espoir
Calogero “On fait comme si”
Francis Cabrel sings “La dame de Haute-Savoie” et “Des yeux bleus pleurant sous la pluie”
Months earlier in this endless year of Covid 19, French troubadour Francis Cabrel generously performed nightly “confinement” concerts streaming on Facebook. One of the highlights of these sessions was this performance: “La dame de Haute-Savoie,” is of course one of Cabrel’s best known tunes, while the country classic “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain,” was written by Fred Rose in 1947. The song was recorded by C&W legends Roy Acuff, Hank Williams and even Elvis Presley, yet the most popular recording came in 1975 by country singer Willie Nelson.
Birds On a Wire concert
La chanteuse du groupe Moriarty, Rosemary Standley, et la chanteuse et violoncelliste Dom La Nena ont allié leurs deux voix en 2014 sur l’album de reprises Birds on a Wire.
Leur prestation sera l’occasion de découvrir, si ce n’est pas encore le cas, les chansons de Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, John Lennon, Henry Purcell ou encore Violeta Parra, qui composent ce disque.
A n’en pas douter, le cloître du musée Jean Lurçat saura accueillir la finesse et les nuances de ces interprétations.