The ‘Pêcheurs de chaussures’ song festival, an annual event organised by Le Bouche à Oreille restaurant, will take place over the weekend of 1 to 3 August.
Throughout the weekend, you'll hear folk songs, guitars, accordions, poetry...
"Le Pêcheur de chaussures" (The Shoe Fisherman) is a series of 6 concerts featuring talents from all over the world. And this year, there's a special time for children, on Sunday at 7pm. The perfect opportunity to bring the whole family! Dinner will be served every evening at 8pm, so don't forget to book online.
On the programme:
- Friday 1 August: First concert at 7pm, featuring Aquiu, a men's choir singing a capella and taking you on a tour of Occitanie to reveal its culture and diversity. The songs are sung in three voices, ‘a cappella’. Aquiu doesn't have a choirmaster, so it's all about listening to each other, collective memory and the vocal confidence of each member.
At 9.30pm, a concert by Corentin Grellier and Claude Delrieu. Corentin Grellier writes songs the way we build huts, between refuge and adventure. Claude Delrieu tunes his accordion to what's singing around him, between waterfall and velvet. The songs are a blend of the intimate and the shared. There's wind, sun and rain, gold and mud, tears, a little of everything, a little of nothing, everything else. Men, women and childhoods. Ties and places that weave between the whole and the individual.
- Saturday 2 August: At 7pm, come and enjoy a concert by Erwan Pinard, a blend of poetry and rock'n'roll. In a few words, it's: to stir up: to change position / to provoke emotion. Punk: a person who displays various outward signs of provocation in order to caricature society.
Crooner: charming singer with a deep voice. Style: playing with the dictionary.
At 9.15pm, a concert by Christian Paccoud. Anyone who has seen Paccoud on stage will go home shivering at the necessity and beauty of the spoken word. It can emerge with him in the form of a future story, an animal cry, a song from here or a dented lyric, a future refrain or a pavement symphony. This is all that Paccoud lays before our eyes and breathes into our chests; he is there, and reminds us that we are there too, and that this cannot cease, that the word will not be silenced.
- Sunday 3 August: At 7pm, you can discover Pile de Plume by Pompe à Roue. This concert by Christian Paccoud and Armelle Dumoulin is specially designed for children. The show is an ode to the imagination, but also to speaking out and solidarity. Theatre, pantomime, song, poetry and music all come together in a show written from a child's point of view.
At 21, Rocking Chair Théâtre - L'art d'accommoder les restes. Two human-sized puppets, two old Sicilian singers whose music inhabits them with the intensity of women who have lived, but who never admit defeat. As delicate and frail as two old branches, with a trickle of guitar and a torrent of vocals, they bite you in the heart, then with a blast of technoid synthesizer plunge you into a frenzied laughter, with all the insolence that these two divas who have nothing left to prove but their friendship and the joy of still being in this world, together, can afford.
To round off the evening, at 11pm there's an open stage, where Le Bouche à Oreille awaits you with your lyrics and instruments, alone or in a group. Come and sing, declaim, slam, murmur...
