Jean-Pierre Lafitte and Renat Juré performed in concert at the Agathois “Jules Baudou” Museum on July 7 after a conference given by Jean-Pierre Lafitte on traditional reed instruments.
Jean-Pierre Lafitte is a musician and luthier. He always made his instruments from reed and this from an early age. The artist gives lessons, conducts workshops and internships in order to perpetuate his knowledge and ensure the transmission of music from the popular field.
Jean-Pierre Lafitte is a musician of popular songs, specialist in musical practices such as the cane of Provence, the pan flute (Frèstu), the sonarel (double clarinet), the bass totarota, the rattle, the Timbala, Tutarota. Jean-Pierre Lafitte releases a sound similar to those that the Egyptians release with instruments with a muffled sound « says the drone » on the sound of the clarinet.
Accompanied by his sidekick Renat Jurié for many years, the pair plays and offers songs and melodies from the repertoire recovered from the elders of Aveyron, Tarn and Ariège and also around Toulouse. The pair offers a repertoire of sacred songs and secular songs from the Pays d’Oc.
Some songs date from medieval times, sung in Occitan and Ranat Jurié offered a Latin song specific to burials.
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