Jean-Pierre Ferland in state: the highlights of the day | Live coverage

This concludes our live coverage of the chapel in honor of Jean-Pierre Ferland. Thank you for being with us!

Join us Saturday from 8 a.m. for live coverage of the artist’s national funeral, where the public as well as several personalities from cultural and political circles are also expected. ICI RDI will present a special program hosted by Patrice Roy, Saturday at 10 a.m.

The ceremony will be celebrated starting at 11 a.m. at Marie-Reine-du-Monde Cathedral, at 1085, rue de la Cathédrale, in Montreal. Doors will open at 9 a.m. and seats reserved for the public will be limited. Once again, those who make the trip are invited to wear a yellow accessory in homage to the album YELLOW by Jean-Pierre Ferland.

For people who will remain outside the cathedral, a screening of the funeral will take place at Place du Canada, at 1010 rue de la Gauchetière Ouest. It will be possible to access it from rue Peel and rue de la Gauchetière.

Don’t miss the documentary I am a Ferland (New window)which will be rebroadcast on the show The big reports Friday at 8 p.m., on ICI RDI. Broadcast for the first time in 2021, the film directed by Maxime Rivet features a long interview between André Robitaille and the singer.

They discuss his artistic legacy, but also the man at the origin of great creative impulses. Jean-Pierre Ferland also shares his thoughts on his life, on love, on women, on melancholy as well as memories of Félix Leclerc, Clémence Desrochers and Claude Léveillée.

He was a force of nature – Édouard, grandson of Jean-Pierre Ferland

Met at the ardent chapel at the end of the afternoon, one of Jean-Pierre Ferland’s grandchildren, Édouard, also had only good words for the man he knew as grandpa Jean-Pierre.

He had a dynamic sense of humor and a lot of energy, he was a force of nature. I have many good memories of him during the holidays, or at the sugar shack. He brought a certain soul and energy wherever he wentexplained the young man, who affirms that The music is his favorite song from his grandfather’s repertoire.

It touched several generations, even people of my generation. I think he’ll stay with us for a while longer.

He was one of the great -Gilles Duceppe

Among the politicians who came to pay tribute to Jean-Pierre Ferland, we include Gilles Duceppe, former leader of the Bloc Québécois, who we could see in the middle of the afternoon.

These are authentic songs, they come to get you. He’s one of the greats, and he took care of his people. I heard testimony this morning about having a musician on his tour who had serious drinking problems, but wanted to do the tour anyway. And he took care of the guy the whole tourhe said.

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The ardent chapel in a few photos

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Yellow flowers from Céline Dion

Céline Dion maintained a special relationship with Jean-Pierre Ferland, who also wrote a few songs for her, including I do not need love, composed with the help of his faithful collaborator Daniel Mercure. If the singer was not present in the flesh during the funeral service, she still left a bouquet of yellow flowers for her friend, accompanied by a farewell note.

You wrote me kisses that light me up better than all the stars. Court life took you away with the love notebooks from my room at the Hôtel Saint-Amant. The women you loved so much are sad. The night goes to bed crying. Goodbye Jean-Pierre. I will always love you…

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The public at the meeting

More than a hundred people lined up on Friday to pay their last respects to Jean-Pierre Ferland. Several of them were dressed in yellow, in homage to the album YELLOW (1970), a must-have in the singer’s discography. The public is also invited to leave a tribute to the artist and his family in the Radio-Canada guestbook.

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A monument of Quebec culture, according to Mathieu Lacombe

For the Minister of Culture and Communications, Mathieu Lacombe, who was also present Friday morning, Jean-Pierre Ferland ranks in the category of monuments of Quebec culture.

He is part of this generation of artists and great Quebecers, great Quebecers, who built cultural Quebec, the Quebec cultural scene and Quebec culture, at a time when everything had to be built, at a time when the Place des Arts did not exist, at a time when we not only had no cultural infrastructure, but we did not have a musical sceneunderlined the minister.

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With information from The Canadian Press

Interview with Julie Anne Saumur, partner of Jean-Pierre Ferland

Julie Anne Saumur, partner of Jean-Pierre Ferland for the last 16 years, explains to Julie Drolet how she felt in the face of the wave of love that swept over following the singer’s death. She also tells how she met him, on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of Quebec in 2008, after a performance by Ferland with Céline Dion and Ginette Reno.

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A message from Clémence Desrochers

The multidisciplinary artist Clémence Desrochers, who was part of the singing group Les Bozos with Jean-Pierre Ferland, left a touching testimony on the urn containing the singer’s ashes.

I would like to leave sadness behind, to better remember you, as I sometimes see you in my dreams. My dear poet friend, Jean-Pierre.

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