We’ve had a busy few days, topped with two of the last three evenings attending the Festival Musique en Chemin in La Romieu. The Festival Program:
“The Festival Musique en Chemin, in La Romieu in the Gers, offers concerts, conferences, workshops around repertoire and creative music, echoing the other arts, spirituality, ecology, and social issues.
It is a suspended moment during which knowledge and artistic sensibility com together. It is an ephemeral space, co-constructed and poetic Gers utopia where knowledge, artistic sensitivity and intelligence of the heart come together.
By inviting all these artists and thinkers from diverse backgrounds to our territory, we want to honor the power of the collective!”
We attended Thursday night’s concert, The Prophecies of the Sybils, Ensemble La Main Harmonique Choir Ambrosia. A friend is in the choir and she invited us to come. Everyone entered the concert through the ancient cloisters. As the concert began, the choir walked single file down the main aisle of Collegiale Saint-Pierre, built in 1312-1318. They walked around the front platform to form a circle and sang accappella the first half of the program, and then with ancient instruments. The performance was superb. Afterward, everyone went out into the village plaza for a glass of wine and conversation. We enjoyed talking with the 17 year old son of our friend, preparing for university.
