Tag Archives: FrenchChanson

Fifi La Mer launches crowdfunder campaign

Fifi La Mer Poster

Fifi La Mer launches crowdfunding campaign – Over the last 10 years Fifi and her band have performed over 1200 times and enjoying every minute of it. Performing French music and jazz in venues of all shapes and sizes to people of all walks of life has been their absolute joy. Now they have decided that this is the time to play their own material, their own tunes.

Oh La La! Quartet – Bastille Day Special 15th July 2020

French Chanteuse/accordionist in cabaret at The Crazy Coqs

Oh La La! Quartet – Bastille Day Special 15th July 2020 – Mixing Parisian folk music ( musette) , French chanson and unforgettable 20’s upbeat to 50’s smooth jazz, feel the mood with film noir/nouvelle vague arrangements and the occasional rearranged cool 60’s French pop tune. If you’re a vintage stud, francophile, jazz lover then this is the gig for you.

Joanna Strand and Olivier Dumait at The Crazy Coqs – with Romano Viazzani appearing on accordion

Joanna-Strand-Voyage

Joanna Strand and Olivier Dumait at The Crazy Coqs – with Romano Viazzani appearing on accordion. a bilingual bonanza of songs by Piaf, Prevert, Legrand, Duke, Strayhorn, Rogers and Hammerstein, and more, all of whom have taken inspiration from the streets of Paris and the nightingales of Mayfair. With John Bailey on Piano, Simon Lea on Drums and Amy Baldwin on Double Bass