MUSIC

BAD REPUTATION: Pierre de Gaillande sings Brassen (en anglais)

FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 2023
8:00 PM

Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn

$20
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Back in the ‘50s, Georges Brassen started to take the French chanson tradition and rough it up. In what must count as some kind of minor miracle, Pierre de Gaillande has done what no one has ever really done before: taken French chanson and successfully translated those mordant, biting lyrics into English (think of all the lame, reductiveBrel translations you’ve endured). Should be a great night — in a low key sort of way.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Decent French at Brasserie Le Mistral.