Mélodie Régnier
Four cities, Saarbrücken, Trier, Luxembourg and Metz, in three countries, have decided that they cannot compete with the dynamism of the major conurbations alone and need to pool resources to form one cross-border metropolitan area, Quattropole. A small step in the building of Quattroplole was a festival, where Mélodie Régnier, a native of Metz, could be found singing French chansons in the street café area of Saarbrücken. The MySpace page of the artist will give you an idea of the music being played.
I would have loved to listen to her sing in French. Fun, fun, fun.
ReplyDeleteIt just came to me: I have been to Metz, have been to Luxembourg, have been to Trier ... but I can't recall ever being in Saarbrücken ... .
ReplyDeleteOkay, not a very useful comment ... :-S
Intersting ideia a phone-camera-blog. Amazing photos with thad piece of equipement. Good work and nice blog.
ReplyDeleteCheers.
Oh...now I know where you are! That cool little corners of Europe that is German and French! I like the old buildings in the background against the modern stage!
ReplyDeleteOh...now I know where you are! That cool little corners of Europe that is German and French!
ReplyDeleteYes. Metz and Saarbrücken kept passing between France and Germany via conquest. After World War II, the political border was settled and they have become very monolingual. The EU has mixed things up again. The physical border no longer exists and projects like Quattropole try to bring the towns on the border area together.
Luxembourg is different again. Everyone there is at least trilingual in French, German and Luxembourgish.