This evening, Friday November 22, the Théâtre de la Tournelle welcomes François Vé, renowned singer-songwriter from Vaud, for a concert with a poetic and refined feel, entirely produced with solar energy.
An atypical Vaudois artist, François Vé will be on stage at La Tournelle, in Orbe this evening. The musician happily participated in a telephone question-and-answer game while walking in Lausanne: “Movement creates energy.”
L'All: François Vé, could you briefly introduce yourself if necessary?
François Vé: I live in Lausanne, I have been singing for 25 years and Music since I was born. My primary passion is wonder, it is the driving force of my creation.
Why sing in the four Swiss national languages?
I am 50% linked to Swiss-German, my grandparents being Bernese and my mother speaking Swiss. Bärndütsch. So I wanted to seek out this rich Swiss German energy. Then during my Helvetica tour on a solar cargo bike, in 2019 – 50 concerts, 5,561 km, 5 months on the road – I logically went to see the exciting meaning of this mix of Swiss culture, by composing and singing in the four languages national.
A preview of your concert this evening at La Tournelle?
I will be alone on stage (editor’s note: vocals, guitar, keyboard, percussion) and will perform the songs from my latest opus Treesepilogue of five months of life in a mountain pasture in Mont-Tendre. This album, written in French, Italian, Romansh and Bärndütschis composed of songs imbued with nature with philosophical hues, between rupture and meeting, end and beginning. The melancholy is counterbalanced by perspective and lightness, because I like to laugh, just as I love Charlie Chaplin films! It's the volatile side of the song, traveling in our ear, that is magical.
A few words about your French-speaking tour on a solar cargo bike, which will take place from February 21 to July 31?
I want to discover new spaces (editor’s note: Switzerland, France, Luxembourg and Belgium), by going there by bike, meeting lots of people, doing concerts in small villages and living my dreams!
What does your lifestyle represent?
After having tasted another way of traveling, with a solar cargo bike, it is difficult to go back! The cargo bike gives me so much more. I think I am close to ecological thinking, but without the political commitment side. I try to live by doing good to myself and as simply as possible, without having to look for something to take. In the future, I would imagine getting rid of the batteries.
Théâtre de la Tournelle, Friday November 22 at 8 p.m.
Reservations: www.tournelle.ch or 024 441 39 66 (answering machine).
Chinese portrait
François Vé, if you were…
An animal? A squirrel (for consonance, in Bärndütsch)
A plant? A herb
A smell? That of rosemary
Your favorite sound? The song of the birds
Your favorite book? The Little Prince
Your most beautiful memory? A concert stage
Your biggest fault? The requirement.
