Initiated by Marion Rampal and the musician Aurélien Tomasi, “Petite Maison” – a flexible Franco-Quebecois collective project – is stopping off in France for a celebration blending folk and jazz that honours the songs of French-speaking America.
Where is the“Petite Maison”, where our songs are created? Which songs from our ancestors have been passed down to us? How do we reinvent them? Together with Aurélien Tomasi, Marion Rampal explores these questions with “Petite Maison”, which celebrates the French-speaking musical traditions of North America.
Travels, encounters, interviews, fieldwork, podcasts, documentary videos, sessions bringing together jazz and traditional musicians… This fluid collective pulls out all the stops to keep the ever-vibrant inspiration of a repertoire alive, to which Marion Rampal feels not only attached to, but indebted to. “It was upon hearing French spoken elsewhere, through Cajun and Creole songs from Louisiana, that I felt the urge to write and sing in this language,” recalls the artist behind the albums *Petit pays* and *Oizel*. These repertoires are inspired by old French, rural and traditional repertoires, which we tend to have lost sight of a little here.
When I went to Quebec, I also discovered how these repertoires are constantly being preserved and reinvented. When I write a song myself, I build on what already exists; I’m continuing a tradition that predates me: it’s a labour of oral transmission and memory."There could be no better way to sum up the spirit that permeates every Petite Maison concert: a celebration straddling folk and jazz, concert and documentary, intimacy and community—a dazzling and deeply moving way of creating something new from memories."
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