If you go to this link here you can see the article and make the image bigger than I can here on the blog
http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2010/06/26/862984-Blue-Lake-debarque-a-Figeac.html
I will post the translation of the article once I receive it from Valdosta. :)
(edit, it’s here)
Blue Lake lands in Figeac (fee-jacques)
Le Blue Lake Concert is, as of now, the gathering that marks the start of the summer festivities. For about 10 years young American musicians come to Figeac. “This year, Figeac welcomes the 1000th American” declares Lion Club President Jacques Rigaud. “We’re very happy.” Beyond the concert, Blue Lake is above all an arts academy located in Michigan under the direction (literally under the control of but I made an artistic decision) of Fritz and Gretchen Stansen. On four hectares of woods, a 3000 seat amphitheater, pavilions that welcome the different artistic disciplines: music, dance, theater….(it’s not a complete sentence in the original. Very weird) Each summer, 8000 people come to the stage to perfect their artistic discipline (literally practice..but I made another artistic decision)
It was a meeting at Puy-l’Eveque where Jacques Rigaud discovered the Stansens and decided to ask them to come to Figeac. Since then, the gathering takes place ever year at the beginning of the summer. (cultural note…school typically gets out at the beginning of July in France and thus…this is why they call it the beginning of the summer) .
Music above all.
Two concerts, on stage, some travels, all motivated by music rehearsal.
60 musicians, aged 14-18, touring Europe arrived yesterday afternoon. They are staying with Figeacian families (I made that word up) and are leaving Sunday afternoon after their performance. From Monday, 100 American, French, Spanish, Andorran, and German musicians will be at Jeanne d’Arc High School for an International Academy. Between two rehearsals they will discover the region: Rocamadour (the translator has heard that this is a really cool place to go), Saint Cirq Lapopie, and of course Figeac and its heritage.
Each year the Lions Club of Figeac offers a three week trip to two students of the intermunicipal school of music of Figeac.
“This operation happens because of the sponsorship of the city of Figeac, which has always supported us,” concludes Jacques Rigaud.
A Week With Blue Lake
Tonight at 9, a strings concert at Mitterand Place, with an orchestra of 60 American musicians from Blue Lake touring Europe. (the utter lack of complete sentences in this article is mystifying…) 12 euros
