The blog from Yves Duteil

Dear friends,

I'm fine, thank you, a big, big thank you to all ...

After hundreds of letters of comfort through your posts on the Blog so warm and the internet in all expressions of sympathy we have received through the media, phone calls from friends, I measure the wave of affection We were enveloped in an aura of caring after this car accident in July, which fortunately is no longer a bad memory. The news spread quickly across the Internet, thanks to the release that we sent to Francofolies Spa (see article "Private Spa", below), then the information was received by the press the ears of people some newspapers, where the collision (sudden or ...) has become a "terrible" accident ...

These summer holidays have been a little quieter than expected, but rich in trade, in the warmth and softness family, where our tempo was set to the melody upward progress daily, allegro ma non troppo. A lot of loving attention that we have much affected the expression of a beautiful friendship silent, who murmured modestly esteem by a beam of positive thoughts and wishes for speedy recovery, like a shower of sun. I am now ready to resume, it is true that next concert, we have a lot on the boards (like last Friday at Pau!) But most of all, I wanted to give you our good news and tell you how much you have helped us to take this Cape of Good Hope ...

A NEAR SCHOOL, our "school for a different future" continues its development in Pondicherry and we are very busy. We can build the girls' dormitory with the support of the corporate foundation AIR FRANCE, and thus release a new classroom, a drill was conducted voluntarily by the association KINAROU to make the autonomous school for food drinking water, and aid applications are currently with organizations that have supported us so far (Foundation GDF / SUEZ, General Council of Seine et Marne ...). The swimming pool built by the city of La Rochelle is about to be inaugurated but we more than ever need support, because the operation of the school on a daily basis requires a regular and sustainable funding. We have currently 100 students! Sponsorships begin, you can do a lot with a little: for one euro a day, all a child's education is funded for the year, and for two euros a day's tuition and accommodation are supported. Complete information, the pictures of these approaches are on www.apresschool.org happens when the new site for news even more fresh hot in this country full monsoon. A video is visible even on YouTube: Nelly came a few days AFTER School, Lionel had asked him to reflect on teaching computer science. She did, but better yet, she took advantage of his presence to make a short film about the school. See it on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFoflKLO9fU&feature=player_embedded

Love to all and see you soon ...

Dear friends,

Upon returning from our tour in Japan on July 16, I was happy to join you at Spa for the concert today July 21 Francofolies. A 36 ton truck has decided otherwise. The shock was brutal, even if it was not rolling fast. I decided to come anyway, despite a broken rib and a severe back pain, and I put it a point to honor the appointment, which had a symbolic aspect to me since I made my first steps at Spa in 1974, winning the Audience Award and one for best song. I've never forgotten.

But I have to face facts, I will not be able to offer the show, given the pain that is needed, broken rib and my breath to sing. I will take a little longer to get over this shock, and it is with regret that I had to bring myself to give up the concert, rare event in my career.

This is only a postponement, I will make every effort to get well as quickly and forget the mishap which deprives us of the meeting ...

I was extremely moved by your numerous testimonies of comfort and affection, and thank you all very soon ...

In friendship,

Yves

Nice surprise in Montreal, Gesu: Gilles Vigneault attended the first concert of the tour. An opportunity for me to honor him in public: the masters of the pen are not that many ...

After a few warm exchanges behind the scenes, we promise to meet again. A few days later, Alison and Gilles invite us home with our friend Mia .

Gilles welcomes us to the threshold of his house, comes to meet us and we did the honors of the garden by the lake. A calendar of the seasons of life with Alison, benevolent gaze and gestures. Every year his new project for the home ...

Mia, "Consultant of the superfluous" as she likes to define itself, tells us "the learning" , where she gathered nuggets collected on eighteen volumes of the newspaper every day when Gilles set his heart and strokes revolts, his thoughts, his joys and sorrows for decades. Writing is a survival time "... We must assume that there is evidence of what has been crossed." We are also talking about Félix Leclerc, of course, and quotes that Gilles would have liked to write ("It's not because I'm an old apple tree that I give old apple") and has published in editions of Arc in " The notebook of a wanderer "or "Dreams for Sale" ... This meeting is a tasty exchange of ideas, emotions and homemade dishes. A Nuits-Saint-Georges crown dinner in our honor. Beautiful moments of intimacy. Eyes clear, honest smile, he gives us his life as if we were a chapter of the book. A beautiful soul on. ..

In the doorway, before leaving us, "Today we received Yves Duteil and Noelle, and Mia. For my part I would say it was a successful meeting ... "

It is our impression as well. Emulation, the desire to write again, brotherhood of mind, heart, deep voice. A feather weight. A unique sense of form, a universe in the eyes, a country in his voice. A library at your fingertips.

An unforgettable encounter ...

On the way to Sept-Îles in Trois Rivières (700km) we do not know which way the eyes. Between the St. Lawrence forest bordering a sea out of sight and the many lakes that arise at the top of the ribs, beauty is everywhere. The treetops like a carpet tight alternate with foaming waterfalls that line the north bank of the river. It's great. I did not bring my camera and my phone can not make the depth of these visions bright dazzling, powerful. Julien our lighting designer, took his Nikon ... Here nature is everywhere, overwhelming. The pioneers of this new world had to be rough men to the task, strong souls. Seven million today for a distance of seven times that of France. A colossal work. Faced with this challenge, we feel a Sentimir ent of humility. The show is permanent. The way outlined in chalk dug through these tableaux billions of tons of earth and crushed rock, planted giant pylons to bring energy, cleared mountains of snow and ice, worn generations of arms to open the passage. Ten-hour drive during which our eyes cro isent filled with the light as before a masterpiece. Our winter tours leaving only white. Quebec this spring is a discovery, in sunny May

And still, a trembling public, affectionate, blowing hot and tender, laughing, referring us to echo the waves of a warm welcome, a happy reunion, and sharing even stronger ...

Photos Julien Bony

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To sing in Quebec and Canada is a special moment for me, a nice meeting. The link was forged over the years has fed us all the emotions shared. Songs have connected as a family. It is first in Quebec as "Take a Child" was sung for baptisms is the magical encounter with Felix, the program "vagrancy" turned around with Roger Gicquel at the Isle of Orleans "The language of home," of course, but that feeling of being "home" of Montreal in Rouyn Noranda: into the street, where the eyes meet, the smiles are complicit, friendly exchanges. Today the cloud moves away from Iceland, the departure is at hand. Week in February have allowed us to resume our friendship as a prelude to this series of concerts, I was touched by this reception, made of respect and affection, and by the testimony of a spontaneous generation grew up with my songs, and that crosses their path again today ...

A few hours separate us now from the "first" in Montreal ...

I'm coming! ...

Fondly

Yves