Comedic Recital: I Ate My Fork

Allée des Près, Salle des Fêtes

It starts off sounding like a completely serious recital, but very quickly the singer interrupts himself, opens up, and confides. For this singer is above all a man of his time, a man whose hilariously romantic journey we will follow as we dive into the repertoire of French humorous songs, from the Roaring Twenties to the left-bank cabarets of the post-war era. His pianist, Christophe Manien, accompanies him and offers his silent retorts. This recital, in fact a true music-hall show that Gilles Bugeaud, with his dry wit, has designed around songs composed by the…