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Amateur singers will perform, Friday and Saturday in Alès, twenty titles of rocker died in December. The organizers of the week of Fous singers present the event as the "greatest national tribute rendered by its audience" to the star disappeared.
We remember the crowd massed on the Champs- Elysées to greet one last time Johnny Hallyday in December. A great tribute in music will be given in Alès, on Friday and Saturday, to the rocker who died on December 5, 2017. Fous singers have invited 800 amateur choristers to celebrate in music the idol of young people. "Through the amateur chorister, it is the people who sing and who will pay homage in turn to the taulier, to whom we would have liked so much to receive during his lifetime", explains Michel Dumazert, president of Mad Singers. A way, according to him, of saying to the disappeared singer "thank you for making us vibrate so much."
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A real institution
The Crazy Singers is an association composed of volunteers from all over France and abroad. On the twenty occasions of Johnny, the 800 amateur choristers invited Christophe Maé to sing with them four pieces of the idol of the young people during two concerts at the Alès bullring. Every year, for 21 years, the festival Fous singing honors an artist by repeating his repertoire. The guest of the first edition was Jean Ferrat. In 2017, the singer Florent Pagny celebrated the 20th anniversary of this show like no other.
For eight days of rehearsal in Fort Vauban d'Alès, transformed for the occasion into a musical village, the festival brings together hundreds of people of all generations united by the passion for singing. The many volunteers are hosting this important annual event for tourism and the economy of Ales and its surroundings.
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According to the organizers, 3,800 tickets to the Johnny Hallyday tribute concert, originally scheduled for a single date on July 28, sold in three weeks. But faced with this success the organizers have scheduled a second date of concert, July 27.
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