Music
ALDEBERT
ENFANTILLAGES - 03/10/09 - 03/10/09
On a set representing a child’s bedroom, adventures unfold involving the zany and bizarre characters who populate Enfantillages, the first album for children by this renowned French chanteur, and featuring Pépette the gluttonous cat, Super Mamie, the enfants terribles and all the rest. An interactive ...
KOUYATÉ & NEERMAN
KANGABA - 15/10/09 - 15/10/09
One plays the balafon, the other the vibraone, and both are absolutely fantastic musicians, who create jazz that is both elegant and electric. David Neerman and Lansiné Kouyaté combine their worlds in the name of the joyful freedom of music.
BABX
CRISTAL BALLROOM - 19/10/09 - 19/10/09
One album would have been enough for Babx to become a leading light of French chanson in the tradition of Leo Ferré, Alain Bashung - and across the Atlantic, Tom Waits. But now, with a second elegantly decadent album, this young singer-songwriter has taken his rightful ...
VINCENT DELERM
MUSIC HALL - 04/11/09 - 04/11/09
A tribute to the movies With Quinze chansons, vocalist and composer Vincent Delerms salutes the seventh art and adds a bit more fanciful poetry to his own art, along with some symbolic bits and pieces from everyday life.
LAÏKA
MISERY - 20/11/09 - 20/11/09
Giving yourself heart and soul to the ethos of Billie Holiday is no piece of cake. But Laïka Fatien has a voice, as well as musical partners, that are up to the task of paying homage to Lady Day. In this show, she presents her latest album ...
EMILY LOIZEAU
PAYS SAUVAGE - 04/12/09 - 04/12/09
This Franco-American vocalist has returned from the other side of the world to invite us into her Pays Sauvage (wild country), the title of her second album. Loizeau’s snug and strange nest offers delightful and inventive pearls.
AVISHAI COHEN
AURORA - 22/01/10 - 22/01/10
A favorite and sometime sideman of Chick Corea, this New York-based Israeli double bass player imbues his jazz with the colors of classical music, world beats, and Asian music to create a deeply satisfying synthesis of tradition, modernity and the avant-garde.
RENAUD GARCIA-FONS
LA LINEA DEL SUR - 04/03/10 - 04/03/10
The extensive musical journey of the venerable double bass player Renaud Garcia-Fons has taken him from the Mediterranean to South America in his new album La Linea del Sur, a new direction in the sunny world of jazz.
ROKIA TRAORÉ
TCHAMANTCHÉ - 12/03/10 - 12/03/10
Winner of the World Music award at the 2009 Victoires de la Musique, the incomparable Rokia Traoré will be gracing Le Quai with her voice, smile and aura. A wonderful scent of Africa for the delight of us all.
DOMINIQUE A
LA MUSIQUE / LA MATIÈRE - 03/04/10 - 03/04/10
With his eighth studio album La Musique, Dominque A has gone back to basics with an Anglo-Saxon style pop-rock minimalism. The result is superb, showing us a Dominique A who’s not only exciting, but also still irresistible.
KATIA GUERREIRO
ET L'ENSEMBLE DE BASSE-NORMANDIE - 16/05/10 - 16/05/10
One of today’s most thrilling Fado vocalists, Katia Guerreiro will be unveiling her new show at Le Quai, accompanied by the chamber orchestra Ensemble de Basse-Normandie.
IDIR
LA FRANCE DES COULEURS - 20/05/10 - 20/05/10
La France des couleurs, c’est le dernier cri du coeur chanté par Idir, l’artiste kabyle aux trente-six ans de carrière. Un nouveau message de lutte pour la tolérance porté par une voix douce et pénétranteHamid Cheriet (Hamid Ceryat en langue kabyle) s’est choisi Idir comme nom d’artiste, ...