MUSIC

Pierre de Gaillande: BAD REPUTATION: Brassens en Anglais

SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 2022
8:00 PM

Barbès In Person & Live Stream
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn

$15 in person; free-$10 live stream
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Transplanted Frenchperson Pierre de Gaillande has done the seemingly impossible: translated songs of a great French chansonnier, Georges Brassens, into English in a way that works both textually and musically. This is not just good stuff — it’s titanically good stuff.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, you’ll want something good and French after this. But you’re in Park Slope, so you’ll have to settle for Olivier Bistro. Streaming at home, have a Suze & Tonic: pour 1-1/2 oz. Suze into a Collins glass over ice. Top with tonic water. Squeeze in a lemon wedge, and then toss the wedge in.