Category: Solos

At 46, I realised I still had never visited the Southwestern French coast. People always bragging about Biarritz and the region, I thought I had to go a tad more south than Cap Ferret(!)

So hours after our annual “rendez-vous” (ha ha) at the St. Flour cathedral, off I was driving South.

I dreamt of singing in Sainte-Eugénie in Biarritz, yet was sadly informed the church was facing serious structural issues; and it was indeed 90 percent closed when I visited.

So I drove a little further South all the way to Guéthary. Always so much heard of it (and not just because of Frédéric Beigbeder!). There I was, trying to rest after the huge adrenaline of our 1st huge singalong at the cathedral (a singalong with 350 people!). And I strolled around.

Turns out end of August was expecting a massive storm with gigantic waves so weather being not so nice, and swimming forbidden, I walked inland and discovered… the church of Guéthary. Do you know Basque churches? I was lost for words.

Now you know me, right? Everything in my life ends up having a story. I confide to a friend about my golden discovery… and guess what? My friend knew the priest of the Guéthary church, then traveling his home country, Ivory Coast. What a coincidence!

Long story short, I am delighted to invite you to a concert of Ave Maria arias at Saint-Nicolas, the most magnificent church of Guéthary.

Let’s singlong (even though I cannot do Basque)!

SINGALONG CONCERT OF AVE MARIAS

Guéthary
Saint-Nicolas church
16 May 2026
5:00 pm

Free participation to expenses 🙂

Is a new Christmas tradition born indeed?

For the third year, these upcoming Saturdays 13th & 20th, we will be happy to gather Place Fürstemberg, a stone’s throw away from Saint-Germain-des-Prés, for Christmas concerts at the FLAMANT boutique.

Our Christmas Carols Singalong has become a FLAMANT Paris Christmas tradition!

Saturdays 13 & 20 December 2025
3:30pm, 4:30pm & 5:30pm
Place Fürstemberg
in Paris

Join us and sing along in the magic of FLAMANT interiors!

Within this grey January, white with snow in my Cantal home, thinking back to the candles of last 21 December concert with its heartwarming atmostphere and all of you singing warms up my Parisian day.

I come to realise that I have not yet published the pictures of that fabulous late afternoon by candlelight with mulled wine and hot cider; sorry; here they are!

That Christmas singalong was at 5pm to enjoy the dark while allowing getting home not too late in our mountains. Yet I had forgotten about milking… I, countrygirl, forgetting about our cows. Our farmers were there anyway, taking part as always. They had started milking ahead of schedule, taken a break for a concert, back at it later, heads & hearts full of music.

Our countryside magic, once again.
And I, very moved, once again.

Here we are, August is here already and so is our annual meeting in Saint-Flour (Cantal). This year however, it will be able to “see” each other again, yes! No specific C* restrictions and the freedom to catch-up. That feels good.

When choosing the theme of this year’s concert, I was – as always – reflecting on the past year and what had come round the corner. While we could feel better re Covid, the war in Ukraine broke out, as if one wasn’t left with a moment to breathe. Yet I thought of life, the precious little pleasures of our daily routines. And I wished to say, yes, life is – also – beautiful. So “dolce vita” popped up in my mind and I immediately decided that that would be it for our 2022 concert at home.

For Fellini’s fans knowing the 1960 Dolce Vita movie, sure the image people bare in mind today is quite at odds with the dark underlying background of the movie. “Dolce vita” today calls for images of sun, sea, farniente, friendship and love, enjoying l-i-f-e. Which is the message I wished to share this year.

Musically, I also felt like going back to bel canto.  So welcome back to some Puccini, Catalani, i tutti 🙂 The Italian language will be “à l’honneur”.

See you then on August 9th, at 8:30pm in our St-Flour cathedral for a lovely catch-up. Andiamo!

Dear friends,

today is two years that Notre-Dame dramatically underwent that huge fire and I wished to share with you, today, my emotion and prayer to Our Lady.

I therefore share a few Ave Marias (Franck, Cherubini, Caccini) with you today.

Ave Maria, Giulio Caccini

Ave Maria, César Franck

 Ave Maria, Luigi Cherubini

 

 

Now let’s meet in my beloved Cantal to sing… together 🙂

Christmas arias and other Christmas traditional tunes to sing together.

Villedieu church (Saint-Flour)
22 December 2020, 5:00 pm
with… your masks
Free contribution to costs

So happy to be back in touch with 2 beautiful projects this week 🙂
– 12 August in Lescure with a 100% Ave Maria concert at 8:30 pm
– 16 August in St-Flour’s cathedral with a daring programme with organ at 8 pm

This coming Wednesday, 12 August 2020 at 8:30 pm, you’re invited to join in a brand new project! A sing-along programme with plenty of surprises, from scenography, lights, etc.

Notre-Dame de Lescure
12 August 2020
8:30 pm
With your mask!
Free participation to the concert expenses