La Chorale Francophone de Seattle will present two performances of its spring concert Fête de la Musique, one in Capitol Hill and one in the Central District.

As usual, the repertoire will represent the diversity of La Francophonie, drawing on music from all 27 French speaking countries in the world, but also drawing on diverse styles of music.  There will be music from the Renaissance, to mid-20^th Century jazz, to Québécois and Haitian folksongs to Fauré and Debussy, along with everyone’s favorite À la Claire Fontaine.

Songs Include : On n’est pas là pour se faire engueuler by Boris Vian, a Jazz favorite from 1954.  Yver, vous n’estes qu’un villian, an influential 19th Century piece by Claude Debussy,  four of the Six Chansons by Paul Hindemith, Peze Kafé, a Haitian Creole song,  a Renaissance piece, Mon Coeur, two folksongs from Québec Marie Madeleine, V’la’L’bon Vent. Also, to honor contemporary Franco-Canadian music, the choral will sing Emmène-Moi by Marie-Claire Saindon.

LCFS is composed of French natives, American and British Francophiles, North Africans, Central Americans, Haitians as well as Americans who grew up in West Africa.  

Chiao-Yu Wu, a UW- DMA student in piano will accompany the chorale on the piano and drums.  Nicholas Renaud, a UW DMA student in Choral Directing is the conductor.

“We had to move our concert space from Prospect Church on Capitol Hill, where we started out, because the membership of the choral grew so much; however, Trinity Lutheran and New Hope Missionary Baptist Churches have been extremely welcoming, said Ellen Taft, managing Director of LCFS

LCFS will perform at the French Fest on Sunday March 22^nd and host a sing-a-long on Sunday May 24^th at Folklife.