My Seven Performances - #5: Sylvia LeLievre (Bouctouche, Nov 2009, part 1) - Ouvre ton coeur

MY 7 PERFORMANCES ARE NOW COMPLETE. MORE TO FOLLOW...

Performance #5 sees me reuniting on stage with perhaps the first recording musician to take me seriously (outside of dinner theatre). Sylvia LeLièvre first brought me into her performing group after a fateful evening at her old pub (Le Pub) atop La Chaloupe in Cheticamp, Nova Scotia. Myself and dinner theatre cohorts were playing there that evening, and we'd developed a gag where one of us would pretend to introduce Sylvia LeLièvre, and I would whip out an impersonation of her vocal stylings on one of her signature songs at the time (coincidentally, Ouvre ton coeur).

Came the night Sylvia was in attendance, taking care of stock behind the bar. Of course, when it came to that part of the night, I was a nervous wreck, and could barely sign the part, much less impersonate her. Somehow, while still being busy behind the bar, Sylvia caught wind of this, and actually came to sing the second verse with me. (I could see the look of concern in her face as she sang, and thankfully the song ended on a high note with myself harmonizing her lead.)

(More on this story in the next video's description...)

Ouvre ton coeur is one of the two songs that appears on her debut EP, "Je t'appartiens" in 1993, released by the Société Radio-Canada (French-canadian division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) as part of her Singer-Songwriter award for Le Gala de la Chanson 1993, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. As such, this number became one of her best-known songs, and to the best of my recollection, she's begun every show in which I've accompanied her with this one.

Introducing Sylvia on stage is Médard Allain, known as weekend DJ on Radio-Beauséjour (CJSE-FM), in Shediac, New Brunswick (about 15 minutes outside of Moncton). He has regularly played songs from both Sylvia's and Le Groupe LeLièvre's albums on his radio show.

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