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In the Steps of Elie Béjard

Urban chabretaire and shooting star

Eric Montbel

For my new album, Chabretas #2¹, I wanted to look for 18th century tunes, really old repertoires that undoubtedly correspond to what chabretaires of Limousin played before the French Revolution. This was a time when the social status of these popular musicians was much more complex than the romantic and reductive vision of “musicians from a rural and pastoral world”. Historical reality shows us, on the contrary, that these professional musicians (the

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