 Une histoire tragi-comique auto biographique par une chanteuse Americaine qui quitte son pays seule avec son accordeon pour decouvrir la ville de la lumieres. Un spectacle solo, Marni Rice raconte la vie a lfetranger, sans connaitre la langue Francaises mis a part quelques chansons qufelle a apprises phonetiquement avant de partir. Elle quitte les Etats-Unis pour un voyage a lfaventure, mais elle nfa pas de permis de travail et gagne sa vie en jouant dans les rues et dans des cabarets. Cfest la qufelle rencontre des gens marginaux et plus ou moins nets mais qui lui permettent dfapprendre les chansons et la langue. 17-19, 23-25, 29-31 en francais 20-22, 26-28 en anglais et francais De Joux Musique, U.S.A Cfest une maison disque independante et une compagnie de production etablie pour presenter des spectacles musicaux et theatrales originaux pour la scene. Fondee par Marni Rice a New York, sa vocation est de presenter des spectacles a un public international et de permettre a des gens de communautes diverses de traverser les barrieres culturelle et linguistiques. En 2009 elle va presenter des spectacles au Japon, en France, en Afrique Centrale et aux Etats-Unis. http://www.dejouxmusique.com |
Marni Rice is a chanteuse, accordion player and theatre artist whose repertoire
includes vintage French Chansons, Euro Cabaret Songs, and original music.
Songs of an Immigrant: Tales from Paris is an autobiographical show based on her years spent in Paris. Inspired by the Chansons Parisians from the 1930's like Piaf, she combines both tragic songs and comic stories while bringing her own New York style of performance. DE JOUX MUSIQUE is an independent record label and Production Company dedicated to present original musical and theatre works for the stage. Founder, Marni Rice is a chanteuse, accordion player and theatre artist whose repertoire includes vintage French Chansons, Euro Cabaret Songs, and original music. Her solo cabaret performance work in The Cave of the Golden Calf (Golden Calf Productions) brought her to The Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2006 and 2007. In June 2008, her solo show: Songs of an Immigrant: Tales from Paris / Chansons dfune Immigree: Contes de Paris was presented at the St. Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival. She has performed as a singer and actress in many theatre productions directed in the United States. . In Europe, she has provided live vocal/accordion music with theatre and dance companies at the Festival D'Avignon (France), The Tribuhne Festival Stuttgart (Germany), The Cultural Festival of Tuscany (Italy), and the songs of Edith Piaf on the Hungarian National Radio. She started singing accompanying herself on accordion in soup kitchens, hospitals, and at the Immigration and Naturalization Service. There she performed traditional and folk ballads she learned from her mother, an amateur folk singer and song collector. Relocating to Paris, she performed on the streets and in cabarets singing French songs of the first part of the century. During this time, she started writing a solo show with monologues and stories about living overseas as a stranger in a strange land. The first versions of the show Songs of an Immigrant: Tales from Paris / Chansons dfune Immigree: Contes de Paris were presented in Rudolph Steiner Cultural Centers in Germany, including an Immigrant Housing Facility in Cologne, and an Artist Squat in Jena, East Germany. As the show developed, it was presented in New York and as a bi-lingual English/French work in progress at Studio 303 in Montreal, Quebec. Now based in New York City, in addition to performing solo, Marni Rice is finishing up a full length CD with her rock band, Marni Rice & Le Garage Cabaret, a mixture of French Chanson, Torch Songs, and Garage Rock and Roll. www.dejouxmusique.com |