On Saturday, I went back to the Chateau de St Paul in Boudy de Beauregard (which isn’t far from where I live). It was a ceremony, then cocktails, then dance party wedding and I tried out the panorama setting on the device I use. I think I’ll make a habit […]
Monthly Archives: June 2019
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On June 21st every year, France has a music festival everywhere. It’s called the “Fête de la musique” and towns and villages throughout the land put up stages and host bands for the public, for free. With food and bars, too. Obviously. This is France. Yesterday, I fêted la musique […]
Not really. This is the setup before we played a wedding last Saturday. A half-French, half-British affair – I’ve never seen so many bilingual people in one place! Video was shot and sound was recorded, but this week is very busy, preparing for two big gigs on Friday and Saturday, […]
Last Friday, I accompanied Katia for a children’s show to celebrate the end of the school year. I don’t have time to cut a video together now, so you’ll have to wait to see that. As this screenshot indicates, the weather was not what you might expect in June in […]
On Saturday, we played a wedding for a Dutch couple up in the north of the Dordogne. I have very little Dutch, and some of it obscure—Hagelslag, for example, always raises a smile (although I’ve only just seen it written down for the first time and was expecting more As. […]
Alliance 24 is an association that organises volunteers to accompany very ill people to the end of their lives. On Tuesday afternoons, they also organise a musician or musicians to go and play for the people in the palliative care unit at Perigueux hospital. Last week was my first gig […]
Here’s a video of the Purple Rock gig at Lembarzique for the opening of the Bergerac Jazz Festival 2019, with clips of almost all the songs we played that night. The soundtrack was provided by the venue, through the new digital desk. The off-stage camera is also at the venue, […]