Bernard Lavilliers

Bernard Lavilliers hits the road again and stops in Tours on 21 May 2027, at the Palais des Congrès de Tours. A travelling songwriter and chronicler of port cities, he brings to the stage the blend that has defined him since the 1970s: songs built on rock, threaded with Brazilian and Caribbean rhythms, reggae inflections and touches of jazz. His pen speaks of wandering, social realities and distant horizons, with the narrative sense that runs through his records, from O Gringo to Clair-obscur. In concert, Lavilliers draws on this long-running repertoire, between classics and more recent pieces, propelled by a deep voice and arrangements that leave space for the musicians. You find those urban and maritime atmospheres that shift from a swaying tempo to a more electric pulse, without unnecessary effects, always in service of the lyrics. A date in Tours to rediscover precise songwriting and grooves that invite as much attentive listening as movement.