Christine Bovill’s Award Winning 5 Star Hit Show at The Queen’s Hall, 31 May Award-winning chanteuse Christine Bovill returns to the Edinburgh with her 5-STAR show, Christine Bovill’s PARIS, for one night only, at The Queen’s Hall on 31 May 2018.
Since winning the Spirit of the Fringe Award in Edinburgh last year, PARIS has toured to sellout performances in London, Berlin (with ongoing regular dates), Cork and Belfast.
In Christine Bovill’s PARIS, Christine beckons you back to the golden age of French Song, a demi-monde of heroes and outcasts, cynics and bruised romantics. With drama, pathos and pizzazz, the show casts a sepia-tinged spotlight on the songs and stories of Jacques Brel, Edith Piaf, Barbara, Juliet Greco, Charles Aznavour and more, interspersed with wonderful anecdotes from the period, and of
her own personal journey from the disillusioned teenage student who hated French to her discovery of a magical new world. Come and be transported into a Parisian scented twilight world of song. (Performed in French and English).
An award-winning songwriter in her own right, Bovill has toured throughout Europe and the Far East with PIAF, her self-penned homage to the Little Sparrow, appearing on BBC Newsnight and on the
BBC Radio 4’s series, Soul Music. Charles Dumont, Piaf’s great friend and composer of Non, Je ne Regrette Rien, made the journey from Paris to join Christine on stage at the Edinburgh Fringe (Famous Spiegeltent). Validation for Christine’s performance doesn’t come any higher than this.
The one show we recommend you do not miss (*****) The Edinburgh Reporter
Christine Bovill has built a formidable reputation as a songwriting jazz chanteuse. Born into a Glasgow family where folk music was the flavour of the age, Christine characteristically explored her own inclinations, finding a delight in jazz and cabaret, which she has been developing ever since.
Watch out for news of PARIS and PIAF returning for a very limited run to Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018.
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