The Paris Traveler

What’s nice about having your own blog is being able to write what you want and I want to say that I am so proud of Geraldine! She has an amazing voice and her take on the hit song The Show Must Go On by the English rock band Queen is fantastic! Who would have thought that when she was a kid playing outside my apartment window in the Cour Saint-Pierre that she would one day be performing on stage and screen and giving rock concerts?! I did!
Why not! Afterall, her father was a world famous magician from Argentina, and considered one of the best; …read more

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This year the Fête de l’Humanité takes place the 14, 15, and 16th of September at the Parc de la Courneuve, and like other years has a list of celebrities and activities all lined up for this three day affair! Last year there were more than a half a million people who attended, 550 stands, over 200 authors, concerts, expos, debats, and so much more.
The festivities are organized and sponsered by the newspaper L’Humanité which is partisan to the Communist Party in France. Many of those in attendance, however, are there for the activities, and especially the concerts, and have no particular preference to …read more

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When Sir Elton John announced that his Red Piano European Tour 2007 had been cancelled a few months back, fans everywhere were disappointed. Apparently the tour was cancelled due to technical difficulties with video screens, sets, props, and stage designs. What is sometimes easy to accomplish when one remains in a certain place such as his regular appearances for the past two years at Ceasar’s Palace in Las Vegas, is extremely difficult to put up and dismantle when on a road tour through a number of European cities.
The good news is although his September 9th concert at Versailles was cancelled, Sir Elton …read more

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Awhile back, I wrote that Barbra Streisand would be appearing at Bercy in June. Well, the date is fast approaching (June 26) and rather than ticket prices going up, or being sold out; they have actually come down! It seems that Europeans will not dish out the dough for BS!
Babs was asking, (if my memory serves right), over 1500 € for the best seats in the house and 500 € for the worst, but don’t quote me, I am known to forget from one minute to the next what I just said! Back to Streisand, afterall this is her first …read more

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“Make Music” is a music celebration on June 21st that began in 1982 by Jack Lang who was the Minister of Culture in France at the time. The idea behind this day, which falls on the first day of summer, and the longest day of the year, was for anyone and everyone to make music.
The goal was to get amateurs and professionals alike to take to the streets in a free for all festival of music. The first year that it began, I was living in the 17th arrond. in a little passageway that seemed more like living in a …read more

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Some of the best concerts I’ve ever been to have been at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy in the 12th arrondissement. A few of the top names appearing in concert in May and June 2007 are: Beyonce, Indochine, Patrick Bruel, Marilyn Manson, The Who, and Aerosmith.
My pick, however, is Michel Polnareff, one of the most interesting and enigmatic entertainers of his time. With much controversy and scandals in the 60s and early 70s, Polnareff left France in 1973, but lost none of his faithful fans. Throughout the years and much of his career, Polnareff remained exiled in California, but his …read more

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