I know this because every day something else bursts into bloom... the tomatoes are super ripe at the market... it stays light until 10:00 at night...the garden furniture is out... and because there are posters for summer events springing up around the countryside as well.
This coming weekend alone, we have the Summer Musicale in Vieux Belleme on Saturday and the Country Dancing Festival (!) on Sunday. "Country Dancing" doesn't mean a rustic clog dance - the poster shows photos of local folk packed tightly into cowboy duds, boots, hats and all. We'll report in post-event, so stay tuned.
Meanwhile, on the music scene, we spent a delightful evening last Friday at Le Jazz Club Reveillon (also known as Chez Bob). Run by an eccentric British couple, Bob and Shirley, it's a kind of jazzy dinner club set inside a 16th century farmhouse, the bar jammed with vacationing English people, but also plenty of locals and Parisian weekenders, all a little sunburned, conversing in multiple languages, and flushed from wine and excitement.
The entertainment on Friday night was a Dixieland group from Paris - quite good. They covered every old standard from "Georgia Brown" to "Basin Street Blues", which felt somewhat full circle to us, as we began this journey in New Orleans. Turns out that it really is full circle, as a number of the original Acadians - the French who emigrated to Canada and then moved south to New Orleans, where they were called Cajuns - are originally from La Perche. Accordions, violins and a Cajun beat can be heard in the traditional music CD's that they sell at the Belleme market... and you can see the connection in the rapt faces of the audience at Le Jazz Club, as they sing along to "Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans". As Satchmo said, it's a wonderful world.
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