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February 14, 2010

Introducing Bourvil

Filed under: Events, Village Life — Tags: — Mary @ 20:47
BAM

Compagnie BAM

We’ve had snow again this week, enough to keep us at home for a few days. The local farmer was very busy yesterday dragging hapless visitors out of the ditches. But despite the snowy roads there was a huge turnout for this week’s entertainment at the Foyer Rural.

It was “Parce que Bourvil” performed by the Compagnie  BAM, a very lively young trio. We had never heard of Bourvil so we were pleased to be introduced to a little bit more French culture. Bourvil was a very popular singer and actor who performed  from the early 1940s until his death in 1970. His songs and sketches involve a very clever play on words. Unfortunately we are not yet able to appreciate such subtleties but we applauded the obvious talents of the performers.

Also we applaud the members of the Foyer Ruraux of our group of villages for staging such excellent entertainment.

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