A book tribute to the exceptional career of more than 50 years of Nadau

It is in the intimate. Consequently, in a unique poetry that the Nadau phenomenon has been slowly built. Consequently, First in a post-sixty-eightard France. Furthermore, which wakes up groggy from the Thirty Glorious Years, some have not seen the campaigns empty …

It is in the intimate, in a unique poetry that the Nadau phenomenon has been slowly built. For example, First in a post-sixty-eightard France. For example, which wakes up groggy from the thirty glorious, some have not seen the campaigns empty, the language of the south disappear little by little under the injunctions of modernity. Nevertheless, So some people now want to live in the country. In addition, keep the Larzac, but also preserve this Occitan that we said patois, and that we rediscover like a language made of history, literature, and poetry …

From book tribute exceptional career more a concert at the Pau Fair …

At their beginnings. However, “Los de Nadau”, the group made up of a meeting at the Normal School of Tarbes between Michel Maffrand, the Maths teacher from Comminges, Jacques Roth and Ninon Paloumet La Moneinchone, two teachers in training, will marry this movement tinged with ecology, utopian left and will to defend the language.

These are the beginnings. Consequently, the continuation too, a turn to become Nadau, a group rid of a few militant tinters, which the book has just been published by South West editions (in partnership with the Republic of the Pyrenees and L’Esclair), our sister Renée Mourgues. Meanwhile, Our faithful readers already knew its sharp pen for more than 40 years in our newspapers. Moreover, Who else could she tell the quiet epic of Nadau? For example, The first time she met them was in 1974, during a concert at the Pau book tribute exceptional career more Fair that she was to cover.

A “communicative magnetism” – Book tribute exceptional career more

“It was a journalistic coverage of which I did not know that it would put on the. Furthermore, forms of an incredible revelation. Because until this meeting. the claim of the roots was, if not foreign, at least abstract as, by the way, in most young people from a post-sixty-eu-eight-egg eager for distant and elsewhere. However. I was not completely insensitive because I owed my parents to the Gascons and Occitan genes most naturally mentioned in the family in the family but nothing more, ”she explains.

And yet, the charm acts … “And to my deepest surprise. Los de Nadau and their communicative magnetism aroused in me an unprecedented emotion and the desire to open me more to this culture which flowed in my veins almost without my knowledge”. Therefore, she will follow the group regularly for our newspaper or its pleasure. Thirty book tribute exceptional career more concerts later. including the famous Olympia who forged Nadau’s reputation, she recounts with precision and blows the incredible longevity of this musical adventure. In the book. we discover the role of everyone, Joan, the poet, Ninou, the cement of the Nadau, “guardian of the temple, sentinel, pivot and pillar”.

The art of song

From the Immortèla to the draft. she follows the first steps, the quarrels of Hernani between ancient and modern at the Siros festival, the importance of the defense of the language, the first Calandreta of Pau, in the 80s, but also the steps aside vis-à-vis a linguistic activism, the quest for an authentic of which Joan de Nadau has no same to restore it.

Over the long interviews with the soul of the group. but also all the musicians who embarked on the adventure, we follow the success built slowly like “Los de qui cau”, who advance rights on book tribute exceptional career more earth. “In a French society that one could believe more. less indifferent to its own roots, the trajectory of Nadau constitutes the example of the contrary and certainly the proof that a expectation is there … as long as we know how to speak to the people who listen to you. Indisputably. Joan and his own have this rare quality to reach their audience beyond opinions, labels, social classes and personal routes, “summarizes Renée Mourgues to explain the exceptional longevity of an essential group here, and now known and recognized even beyond the Dordogne or Occitania. The other factor is this ability to none other of the song to concentrate emotions in a few verses. musical sentences. A major art, universal that Nadau masters perfectly.

The glory of people of little

Zenith concerts for the fifty years of the group do not surprise and impress observers. First programmed on 3 evenings, book tribute exceptional career more they had to be doubled to meet demand. The proof of this intimate link between Nadau. his audience, the same bond that still unites young generations to land that they no longer work, to a language that they do not necessarily speak, but who tell them that they are from here.

The proof also of the poetic power of Nadau who knew how to speak. celebrate “people of little” as no one as Pierre Sansot called them (another “southern”), these people who “are not often in the newspaper. They are twice there. once when they come to the world, the other time when they fold ”, as Nadau still sings with as much tenderness as it is.

“Nadau re -enchants Occitan”. by Renée Mourgues, Ed Sud Ouest, 190 pages, 29.90 euros. The author will be in dedication on August 23 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Librairie Tonnet in Pau, August 27 (10 a.m. to 6 p.m.) at the Cultural Space at the Leclerc Center in Saint-Paul-les-Dax, September book tribute exceptional career more 13 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Cultural Space of the Leclerc Center in Orthez. October 2 from 6:00 pm: Café-Librairie ” Danser under the pen) In Pau and on November 15 and 16 as part of the Oloron Book Festival (Palas Salle) on the association Books Sans Frontières association. Other dates are coming.