Sara Dufour melted the hearts of Karl Tremblay and Marie-Annick Lépine on Tuesday evening when she offered the Cowboys Fringants singer a touching reinterpretation of the song Royal Pub as a gift for her 47e Birthday.
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This moment, “rich in emotions that I will not soon forget,” admitted Sara Dufour on her Facebook page, occurred during a concert she gave at the Vieux Palais de L’Assomption, a performance hall where Marie- Annick Lépine administrative and administrative employee is cultural manager.
Before playing Pub Royal, an emotional Sara Dufour first wanted to pay tribute to the Cowboys Fringants by addressing their singer, who was suffering from cancer and was in the audience.
“It’s much more than a generation that is shaped by your music, it’s a whole people. You have accompanied me on my life’s journey since I was in third secondary school. I sang “The Company Guy” with all my heart, I cried about Ruelle Laurier, I sang about “Le shack à Hector.” The first and only show I saw on the Plains of Abraham was yours in 2003 for Midsummer Festival. At that moment I had no idea that 20 years later I would be at your side, on the track, for a historic evening. Since the first show in Amos, in Abitibi, in 2018, I have had the pride of standing on the same boards as the rest of you. It’s happened eight times since then,” said the Lac-Saint-Jean singer, saying she was honored to sing for someone special.
“Thank you, beautiful artist!”
Then, surprisingly, Marie-Annick Lépine came on stage during the song to accompany him on the violin. At the end, moved to tears, she hugged Sara Dufour, a gesture that was imitated by Karl Tremblay, who joined them on stage.
“It’s impossible not to cry during his performance. […] Thank you, beautiful artist, you are a beast of the stage,” wrote Marie-Annick Lépine in a message posted on Facebook.
Marie-Annick Lépine’s Facebook account
In an interview with Le Journal ahead of the release of her new album “We’re gonna take a walk?” this Friday, Sara Dufour admitted that she feels privileged to have joined Cowboys Fringants and dreams of opening for them to appear in Europe.
“It’s a relationship that has grown. At the Bell Center, Marie-Annick stood at the edge of the stage and sang during the song “Semi-route semi-trail.” She told me that she and Karl would listen to me while riding. It’s messed up.”