The popular tour For a one night stand by Joe Bocan, Marie Carmen and Marie Denise Pelletier will end this week with two concerts at the Maison symphonique. Luce Dufault, who will soon put an end to her show Say how much I love you, is also there for this double platter of sorority and complicity.
Four years ago, Joe Bocan, Marie Carmen and Marie Denise Pelletier were about to embark on an adventure whose success they could never have predicted, which has not failed.
“There are some things that are a little inexplicable. Sometimes you put people together and something happens. And it happened 123 times, since day 1. Every evening, we said thank you,” says Marie Denise Pelletier.
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Marie Denise Pelletier, Marie Carmen and Joe Bocan put an end to an adventure that lasted four years.
“None of the three came to this project with expectations,” recalls Marie Carmen.
The public decided to choose us, and we received it at each performance like a supreme gift, with joy, complicity, and forever a sisterhood.
Marie Carmen
Four years later, they are preparing to come full circle “with panache, let’s not be afraid of words!” », adds the flamboyant interpreter ofBetween shadow and light. And with emotion: they admit to having cried a lot at the end of their last regular show, last weekend. “After the salute, I was no longer stoppable,” says Joe Bocan.
“It’s the end of the tour, but not the end of our friendship,” philosopher Marie Denise Pelletier. Backstage at the Maison symphonique on Monday, before going on stage for their first rehearsal, the three “invigorating sixties”, as they like to say (rightly!), were feverish and joyful. Their friendship can be heard in the smallest of their conversations, in their knowing smiles, in the compliments they give each other.
“We got through the pandemic, we shared our stories, our pleasures, the road, everything… It was really a journey,” says Marie Carmen.
New start
This journey ends with the OSM, a year after the show was presented with the Quebec Symphony Orchestra. Joe Bocan, less accustomed than the others to singing with symphony orchestras, was quite stressed Monday morning.
It’s pressure, but I try not to go towards that. I want to have fun, to transmit it to the public. Give. These concerts bring a little climax, it’s a great outing in grandeur and happiness.
Joe Bocan
And in elegance too? “Yes, I really have beautiful dresses! »
For Marie Denise Pelletier, a place like the Maison symphonique automatically brings a kind of sobriety. “It’s like a prayer before you leave. We didn’t run out of steam, we could have continued, but all good things come to an end. Especially since I have my first one soon! I released an album in October, we didn’t expect this tour to last so long. »
All three note that For a one night stand gave them a new lease of life. Marie Denise Pelletier will therefore go back on tour in February. If she does not release an album, Marie Carmen has announced a solo tour which will begin in the fall of 2024, directed by Joe Bocan. And the latter will launch an EP in the fall of 2024, to go on tour in January 2025.
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Marie Carmen, Joe Bocan, Luce Dufault and Marie Denise Pelletier with conductor Jean-Michel Malouf
“I didn’t know that this adventure would end with new projects for everyone. It’s not the end of something, it’s a transition to something else,” says Marie Carmen, who finds that the presence of Luce Dufault adds to the grandeur of the event.
“The love we have for each other, the admiration we have for Luce, that she has for us, it shows when we sing together. It’s not fake. »
Luce Dufault says that at the time she sang in bars, she already had great admiration for the three singers.
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Luce Dufault in rehearsal with the OSM on Monday
They were already on big internships. I was a fan, I loved all three.
Luce Dufault
Vibration
Luce Dufault launched her album Say how much I love you a week before the start of the pandemic, in March 2020. Her tour, which was to take off in the fall, finally began in spring 2021. She will have experienced everything, distancing, masks, curfews… then full rooms. “I have done over 150 shows. Getting to where I am in my career, it’s crazy and unexpected! »
Officially, he will still have three shows to do after the Maison symphonique.
It’s always difficult to finish a show, even if there’s something else after. There is a little mourning to do.
Luce Dufault
She will soon embark on a new group tour – she is not giving any names for the moment – because there is nothing she loves more than “joining her voice” to that of others. “When the girls are singing and I’m backstage, I do all the back vocals, no microphone! It’s one of the great pleasures of this job. »
This time, it is the orchestra that she will be glued to, and for the first time in her career to sing her own songs. “When I heard Benoit Groulx’s arrangements, I freaked out. I get chills just thinking about it. » What is the pleasure of playing with a symphony orchestra?
“The vibration. At the Maison symphonique, you are really in the orchestra, the first violin is leaning on your hip! » If we add to that the power, the accuracy and the unique color of the voices of the four singers, plus the love that circulates between them, the vibration will certainly be felt all the way to the back of the room.
Saying how much I love you… For one last one night standat the Maison symphonique on January 23 and 24, 2024