With Eric Antraygues, the Viaur valley and Aveyron gorges are transposed, as if with a wave of a magic wand, into the Mississippi delta. The southern accent, his, ours, rolls the “r” more than he sings “yoghurt” roast beef from this Lousiana with the false air of Italy magnified by Nino Ferrer. And it is perhaps there, on the side of the immigrant from Montcuq in Quercy, that we can find the propensity for French-speaking songs of our friend Eric Antraygues. He who, since he was seventeen and a few years old, has made tablatures for Dadi, Atkins, Grossman and other masters of finger picking his reason for playing. But without ever losing sight of our old and good classics, always revisited with the help of his fiery fingers, of French song. In the firmament, is Brassens, the Sétois, maker of rhymes and scales. The one thanks to which we drew the first hummed chords. The essential journey of the secular guitarist who will also join, among some (but not all), The Fox-Terrier, Moustaki the other Georges, and some nuggets like Souchon, Manset, Cristiani, and Deraime blues. A whole repertoire of which the Antraygues of the Najacois country does not blow his lips with the back of his sleeve.
Freed from many constraints, the one who played alongside Vivoux, Sharons Evans, created the groups Zentreprises Zintimes, Kap Blues and others, serves up a complete show of French-speaking songs and homemade or revisited instrumentals. This Friday, November 22 from 9 p.m., he will perform at Piccolo.
At the same time, he gives guitar lessons in the territory of the former canton of Najac and nearby Tarn-et-Garonne (song accompaniment, picking, beginner and advanced). Entrance 8 euros.
