Brigitte Fontaine, well-tempered farewells

In April 2022, at Printemps de Bourges, we celebrated Brigitte Fontaine with a “Fucking Night” organized by her caring entourage. “Unworthy old lady” of French song, a figure as essential as she is singular since the mid-1960s, Brigitte Fontaine has become a model for today’s non-conformist artists. What do they admire in her? His writing, one of the most dazzling here, his fantasy, his freedom and the power of his repertoire. Coordinated by the gifted Lucie Antunes, the Bourges spring evening brought together Béatrice Dalle, Philippe Katerine, Bertrand Belin, but also Rebeka Warrior, from the Mansfield Tya group, and the promising thirty-something P.R2B.

A few months later, in January 2023, as part of the Hyper Weekend Festival organized by Radio France, Flavien Berger and Bonnie Banane resumed as a duo I am 26 ansone of the lady’s emblematic songs. This last one…