Boby Lapointe would have been 100 years old on April 16, 2022. Dany LAPOINTE, his granddaughter, tells us about the artists who have come to Printival since the festival was created. And each his Boby.
Direction Pézenas, the family stronghold of the Lapointes.
From April 26 to 30, 2022, the 23rd edition of PRINTIVAL takes place, a French-language song festival created by Jacky, Boby’s son in 2000.
EPISODE 1: The birth of Spring.
Paule-Andrée CASSIDY, the first guest of the festival tells how she found herself in the Hérault from Quebec.
On the Printival: “When I think of the event, I think of smiles, laughter, I think of shining eyes. Everyone lit up, in joy and sharing. ”
EPISODE 2: Memories of Jacques HIGELIN, Anne Sylvestre and Aldebert
Since 2010, Dany LAPOINTE has taken over from his father at the head of Printival. She remembers two great moments of the festival.
Aldebert is on tour all over France for Enfantillages 4, his 13th album but when he came for the 1st time to Printival, he had just released his 1st!! Who had contacted whom?
On the Printival: There was also a lot of childhood in the way of living and doing the festival »
EPISODE 3: Funny female artists and their connection to Boby
GiédRé, comedian, singer, musician, author, actress. Born in Lithuania, she had little chance of finding herself the godmother of a French-speaking song festival in the South of France… And yet!!
On the Printival: Springtime is awesome!! The village is magical… There is a quality of listening from the spectators that is quite incredible. They come to listen… ”
Chloé Lacan, actress, singer-songwriter has come to Pézenas several times with her accordion.
On the Printival: “ It’s hard not to fall in love when you arrive in a place where there is this atmosphere, this love of music, words, wine, food! »
EPISODE 4: The Ogres of Barback and Zaza Fournier: a regular and a first time!
Sam Burguières rediscovered Boby Lapointe with his brothers and sisters when they first came to Printival. For several years, he has been the artistic director of the special evening.
On the Printival: “ The first festival I did, I saw a week of smiles.. It’s not bad after all in a year??!! ”
Zaza Fournier, actress, musician, singer, she has created her own POP universe. Strangely, while she is an absolute and intimate fan of Boby Lapointe, her history with the Printival is full of missed appointments…
” We’ve been following each other with Dany for a long time. I am sensitive to what she defends artistically. In 2022, in one edition, we will make up for lost time! ”
EPISODE 5: The artists of Printival. Dany’s Boby.
Dimoné is a “rocker poet” according to Dany. his manager since 2012. At first glance, not much to do with Boby Lapointe: “He was a joke, I was serious, you see… Death… Léo Ferré! “. Finally the meeting between these two took place:
” He unlocked my relationship to life and the show, Boby lapointe..“
ORAGE is the latest arrival from the Dany Lapointe stable. The project was born in 2019, 97 years after the birth of Boby Lapointe. Four musicians including Alexandre who met the singer by meeting Dany:
” For me, Boby Lapointe… This light side, a bit burlesque but not a clown. For me, it’s not a joke. We can put lightness, naivety but there’s a sub-word.“
Dany Lapointe’s Printival? “A festival where you feel good, where you can discover artists in a very beautiful city: Pézenas. It’s a family that finds itself and the public feels it too. »
Dany’s Boby? : “ A creator, an inventor, a lover of life and words. (…) And laughter. Even though he sometimes had a dark side, he wanted to make others laugh all the time. “
If you want to meet Katie, Léon, Toto, Framboise, the mother of the fish and all the others, go to Pézenas, at the Printival, with or without a sailor top but with your eyes and ears wide open.
Happy Birthday Boby!
Thank you to the Hall de la chanson, the Printival and France Bleu Hérault.