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The first time it happened in France, it was 56 years ago. Joan Baez, the mythical folk singer, gave Monday night her last concert in France, in Perpignan, as part of the Live festival at Campo. For the occasion, some 2,500 people came to attend the farewell of the interpreter Here's to you, Nicolas and Bart.
Alone on stage, guitar in hand, the queen of folk, soberly dressed in black pants and a gray top, began the concert by Donna Donna , cult title if it is in its repertoire. At 78, the singer believes that it is so much to leave the scene, even if his voice remains intact. At the foot of Saint John the Baptist Cathedral, the icon of Woodstock interprets in turn his most important pieces, from Diamonds in rust to Joe Hill , to Farwell Angelina , composed in 1965, a year after his first concert in France, at the Olympia.
The last concert in France by Joan Baez, 78, takes place in the historic center of Perpignan. She had given her first concert in 1964 in Paris. To find tomorrow in the morning of @ Europe1pic.twitter.com / BtNPYF69Gl
- Henry de Laguérie (@henrydelaguerie) July 22, 2019"France will miss me"
The American has also won the covers of Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, John Lennon, but also a nod to the French public, Brassens. The artist has lost none of his convictions. Thus the title Deportee , dedicated to migrants.
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The audience, conquered, was touched by this page of the history of music that turns. "Great, grandiose, a presence, a charisma, a simplicity ... I almost want to cry because I tell myself that I'll never see her again", coward, very moved, a spectator. "Now, we can die, we have seen it!", Adds another. "France will miss me" for its part slipped Joan Baez at the time of drawing his bow.