Notre-Dame de Paris in Sherbrooke (QC), October 2018 (English)

One may try to resist the charms of Notre-Dame de Paris, but when the musical is approaching a geographically acceptable point, the invisible bugle calls, and time, money and even perhaps company come out of nowhere, and all of a sudden here you are sitting in the audience and your face is blue with the gleam from the stage light, and the show is about to begin ...

"Нотр-Дам де Пари" в Шербруке (Канада), октябрь 2018 (по-русски)

Можно сколько угодно сопротивляться чарам «Нотр-Дам де Пари», но когда мюзикл приближается в географически приемлемую точку, невидимая труба зовет, и находится время, деньги и даже, возможно, компания, и неожиданно для себя ты уже сидишь в зрительном зале и на лице твоем лежит синяя тень от сценического света, и спектакль вот-вот начнётся...

La Fête Nationale du Québec on the Plains of Abraham (June 23, 2018) : a foreigner's experience

If you ever find yourself in Quebec city on June 23 in the evening, do what the locals do: go see the free open air show in the city’s Plains of Abraham park on the high shore of the Saint-Lawrence river, because it’s the national holiday and the show is grand.

J’écoute la radio : notes on Daniel Lavoie's concert tour (2012-2014)

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To see a big picture one needs to step away from it. In order to understand the role a concert tour played in a performer’s carrier one needs to wait a couple of years after the tour’s ended. So, what exactly was the J’écoute la radio tour? Now, 3.5 years later is the best time to answer the question.