If you go see Daniel Lavoie's new
live show Mes longs voyages and are familiar with his eponymous and
unabashedly dark album (released in 2016), you are in for a
surprise. Because oh, what a magician that Daniel Lavoie is! Hop-la and all the
blood, sweat and tears of the album turn into champagne! Effervescent and
luminous, Daniel Lavoie sings, dances, switches (or ditches) instruments,
talks, laughs, grimaces, savors his time in the limelight, as if trying to put
behind him all the troubles that followed him in 2016 (and inspired the album) as fast as he can, and he
effortlessly pulls the audience into his happy vortex. And as for that guy on
the promo photos - the one who carries the weight of the world on his shoulders
– one wonders what he has to do with this show…
