“Canto: A French Cultural Project to Preserve Popular Songs – Singing and Socializing in Lille”

Nothing better than Lancelot, its manager to tell us about the Canto project. ” The Canto project is a cultural project, therefore historical, and will remain so. By choosing to save the memory of popular song from the regions of France, we have decided to embrace history in all its diversity and apparent contradictions, far from the ideological biases of our time..”

Thursday evening, and for the second time, it is in Lille that Lancelot but also Rémy who participates in the initiative, put their suitcases down. After a first meeting which was crowned with success with nearly 60 participants, it is quite naturally that a second meeting is organized.

Canto: from an application to meetings for the enhancement of popular songs

In 2020, Canto was born by creating an app. You can find theinterview of Lancelot with our colleagues from Breizh Info. But since a return to normal life, with the Covid madness finally behind us, Lancelot has set himself the goal of a real tour of France. For this, he is accompanied by Rémi Creissels.

Everywhere, they make hundreds of amateurs sing, all in good humor, over a drink.

And to make you want to take part in this evening, look at what the Bretons achieved in Saint Malo a few weeks ago.

Useful information:

• appointment is given at 7 p.m., the end of the evening is scheduled for midnight
• Location: the Genever Bar, 106 rue Saint André in Lille
• gentlemen, come in white shirts

Photo credit: DR

The mirror of the North, 2023. Dispatches free of copy and distribution subject to mention and link to the original source

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