Live at the Philadelphia's Magic Gardens

Hi everyone,

I really had a great time at the Philadelphia's Magic Gardens yesterday. Part of their Music & Mosaics Concert Series, this special "a night in Paris" in honor of the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts featured Dallas Vietty's Musette Project, The Philly Musette Project and... my Bluesy French-Pop!


Very nice night in Philly, we played outside while the attentive public was doing a sort of picnic on mosaic! Dallas Vietty openened and set the ambiance to a true "soiree parisienne". Dallas is a great accordion player. It is amazing how much you can tell that he has a true passion for his instrument. Again, one thing is to play, another thing is too play well, but it is definitely more when you see this kind of love.
With great guitar manouche lead Barry Wahrhaftig, rhythm guitar Joe Ellis and Jim Stager at the bass, they really lit up the gardens with their musette!
 
The Philly Musette Project - pianist/ accordionist Heath Allen and vocalist Phyllis Chapell - closed the evening with a beautiful tour of French classics from yesterday to today with songs from Edith Piaf, Pink Martini and our one and only First Lady Carla Bruni. They define their style as "elegance, charm and maximum joie d’vivre", and that is exactly what we saw heard, and felt yesterday.
 
In between, I played songs from "Paris-Chicago" and more. After some technical sound problems to begin with (always adds to the pressure!), I really started to get to know an incredibly open-minded public, who really wanted to listen to something different for them: songs they never heard before and that they also don't understand... it's always my challenge, but they made me feel good about it yesterday.

Check-out this souvenir, and I'll post more soon.

A bientot,

Olivier