Alain Souchon Accompagné Par Ours & Pierre Souchon - Tournée

Alain Souchon, a family affair on our stage

At L’InterValle, we are honored to welcome the intimate and luminous project Alain Souchon accompagné par Ours & Pierre Souchon – Tournée, a concert that places one of French pop’s most beloved voices at the heart of a true family ensemble. From our vantage point as a venue dedicated to sound clarity and close-knit listening, this appearance resonates like a homecoming: a songwriter with a singular touch, joined by his sons, inviting audiences to hear the songs anew. The tour arrives with the creative momentum that followed his acclaimed album Âmes fifties, whose recent song highlights such as Presque reaffirmed his quiet audacity and lyrical finesse. In our hall, the finesse of an acoustic texture—voices in close harmony, guitars in gentle dialogue, rhythmic details that breathe—gains a special warmth. The set is designed to celebrate the living thread between past and present: recent work entwined with the perennial glow of classics that have accompanied generations. We prepare the stage to frame every word and inflection, so that listeners can feel the human timbre that has always defined Souchon’s way of singing about the world.

What makes this tour singular for a venue like ours is the dialogue of three musical personalities shaping a single, communal sound. On our stage, the titular artist’s supple phrasing and soft-grained timbre meet the nuanced guitars and vocal colors of Ours and Pierre Souchon. The result, in rehearsal as in concert, is a tapestry woven from long-shared ears: countermelodies that appear at just the right moment, rhythmic pulses that lift a refrain, harmonies that turn a familiar line into fresh storytelling. The repertoire moves organically between loved standards—think of the way a crowd breathes with Foule sentimentale or Allô maman bobo—and recent pages like Presque from Âmes fifties, whose contemplative sway fits perfectly with an evening designed for listening rather than noise. Our technical team shapes a lighting design that keeps focus on faces and instruments, sculpting intimacy rather than spectacle, while our room’s acoustic transparency lets the softest details carry to the last row. Between songs, the trio’s understated humor and anecdotes keep a conversational thread alive, reminding us that these melodies were first born around a table, a notebook, a guitar, and are now shared under lights with the same simplicity.

Current artistic life, heard up close at L’InterValle

From the perspective of L’InterValle, the arrival of Alain Souchon accompagné par Ours & Pierre Souchon – Tournée is more than a date on the calendar; it situates us inside the artist’s current creative chapter. In recent seasons, Souchon’s studio return with Âmes fifties and the ensuing burst of concerts have shown a writer still refining the light touch that turns daily detail into song. Presque has found a natural place in the setlist beside those timeless refrains that audiences carry in memory, and the concert’s acoustic dressing invites us to notice the writing’s inner architecture: the care with syllables, the gentle syncopations, the soft ironies. This period has also seen his songbook renewed in the culture at large, from the continued life of tribute projects like Souchon dans l’air to the ways younger generations reinterpret his catalog online and on stage. In parallel, Ours and Pierre Souchon bring the energy of their own projects, sensitively folding those contemporary instincts into arrangements that honor the original spirit while opening small windows of surprise. All of that converges in our hall, where proximity is part of the instrument: the audience becomes a fourth voice, the resonance of the room extends a chorus, and a quiet guitar figure can travel unforced to every seat. For us as a venue, preparing this concert means curating conditions for nuance—balanced sound, unhurried pacing, attentive sightlines—so that the family conversation at the core of the tour can be heard as clearly as it deserves.