The Toulouse ConTour trio in showcase at Fnac this Friday
On the occasion of the release of their first album “Le temps additional”, Magyd Cherfi, Art Mengo and Yvan Cujious of the Toulouse ConTour trio perform in a showcase this Friday, June 24 at Fnac on Place Wilson. The event will be followed by a signing session.
After their concert at the Hôtel du Département for the Fête de la Musique, Magyd Cherfi, Art Mengo and Yvan Cujious from Toulouse-Con Tour (TCT) Smoking is taking part in a new event in the Pink City this week. The Toulouse trio agrees in showcase this Friday, June 24 from 5:30 p.m. at Fnac on Place Wilson to present his first album “Additional time“, in stores since January.
The three Toulouse musketeers will perform the hits “Le Sud” by Nino Ferrer, “Lady Lay” by Pierre Groscolas or even “The walls of dust” by Francis Cabrel. The work also includes some novelties, such as the melancholy title “Le blues du popotin”, or “Oualalaradime” and “Demain Demain”. The concert will be followed by a signing session and a moment of discussion with the artists.
Toulouse ConTour, a purely Toulouse trio
“The TCT is three faces, three styles, three stories, three voices united by the love of the song first, and that of sharing it afterwards”, explain the members of the group on their website. This “incongruous trio of young fifty-somethings” from Toulouse is first and foremost Yvan Cujious, an author, composer and performer propelled in the 90s by Claude Nougaro. It is also Magyd Cherfi, singer with a rocky tone and militant poet, former member of the famous group Zebda. And finally Art Mengo, his real name Michel Armengotsinger, musician and composer for the greatest from Jane Birkin to Johnny Hallyday, including Florent Pagny, Enrico Macias, Henry Salvador…