The rain that had been falling on rue de la Reine since 5 p.m. almost poetically stopped just as P’tit Belliveau was supposed to go on stage, thereby inaugurating the series of free shows at the 18th Festival Musique du Bout of the world.
After having had great success with his first album “Greatest Hits”, but no shows due to the pandemic, the young Acadian presents a first tour of shows with a second opus in his pocket “A man and his piano”, already acclaimed by criticism.
Alexya Crôteau-Grégoire / Music Festival from the End of the World
“We are tired, but so happy to be here,” revealed Jonah Guimond, his real name, before singing the first notes of “Moosehorn Lake”, one of his favorite places near Baie-Saint-Marie. , in Nova Scotia, where he grew up.
Limiting his interventions between songs, it was by having him sing along that the Nova Scotian really connected with the public, particularly on “Mon flag Acadjonne vens d’Taiwan”, where the title is repeated twice for each chorus. . From that moment, the crowd seemed in real synergy with the artist, who navigates among folk, country, grunge and pop styles, and his musicians.
Alexya Crôteau-Grégoire / Music Festival from the End of the World
Even though the show was short, a little less than an hour, the group allowed themselves a short musical intermission, in the manner of a traditional Acadian “real”. Multi-instrumentalist Jacques Blinn, also from Nova Scotia, left many spectators speechless with a violin solo that would make many musicians jealous.
At this point in the show, the crowd was already completely won over. The arms of the spectators went from left to right for the ballad both funny and touching “I would like to have a John Deere”, a refrain that questions the relationship to social success and to what we are ready to do to expose his fortune and prosperity to others.
Obviously having fun on stage, the musician was so happy to be able to tell the crowd that he had the green light from the production for two encores, “RRSP” and “Tomorrow” and even after two encores, the public seemed to want more, but the show under the Marquee at the Gaspé marina with The Franklin Electric and Les Louanges was about to begin. Moreover, to add to the poetry, it started to rain again.