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Maggi Stratford & Jack Glover bring you a rich journey through all things musically French, from Edith Piaf to Jacques Brel , Bécaud, Prévert and beyond, via accordion, piano and voice, chansons and musettes, a little jazz - and qui sait? Maybe a surprise on the wayBon Appétit! An evening exploring the fabulous world of French Chansons Populaires - songs with poetry for lyrics, telling stories that still move to laughter and tears and with music which evokes a time and place and yet still touches us and sometimes takes our breath away The songs have been passed through the generations, threads of lost love & requited love, passions and playfulness, peopled with characters who have lived lives of hope despite everything. And somehow these songs, with such an identity of time & place, nonetheless crept over the channel, and somehow it didn't matter that the language wasn't ours. Somehow the poetry and the passion make the unfamiliar utterly accessible and transport us beyond what we think we know... Bon Voyage!