Edith Piaf Alive | Original Songs | Love is French | Longest Running Show

French Singer

Floanne is an authentic French chanteuse. She sings original songs and vintage tunes with a modern twist.  She wrote and perform her full length solo shows Edith Piaf Alive, Floin’ to America and Love is French. Sold out venues include the New York Botanical Garden, Joe’s Pub, the Triad Theater and the Metropolitan Room, where she holds a monthly residency. She also performed at the exclusive Harmonie Club and Symphony Space. Floanne studies opera voice as a coloratura soprano with April Evans, and honed her craft as a nightclub singer with Lina Koutrakos, Isengart, and her rotating band of Jazz musicians. Her new song Longest Running Show is a duet with Porter Smith. She has been on NPR, For Your Ears Only, as well as French national television: France 5, M6, TV5 Monde.

  • Joe’s Pub - July 28, 2012 /sold out/
  • The New York Botanical Garden - June 16, 2012 /sold out/
  • Symphony Space, Wall-to-Wall Festival: Gertrude’s Paris - May 5, 2012
  • The Metropolitan Room - Monthly Residency, November 2011 to June 2012
  • Official Bastille Day Concert, French Consul – July 12, 2012
  • The Triad Theater, Valentine’s Day – February 14, 2012 /sold out/

Original Songs

Floanne is currently working on a set of original songs. Here are a few demos.

Nightclub Performance

Edith Piaf Alive
Running Time: 1 hour
A modern twist to vintage tunes, in a musical play about the Little Sparrow.
Floanne, an authentic ‘chanteuse’ and farm girl opens the door to her culture, taking a closer look at the legendary ‘Little Sparrow’ —with that husky, mournful voice so popular in the 1940’ and 50’s.
The performance is a culturally rich and moving presentation that will make you smile, a medley of vintage tunes… with a modern twist. Down to earth, sensual and bohemian as her beloved Edith, Floanne will make you discover her poignant music and share her unconventional life.

 

Love is French
Running Time: 1 hour
Floanne explores, rather academically… love, with a comedic flavor, a lot of personality, and romantic overtones will leave you with much to explore and talk about. Even if you disagree.
Treat yourself to a night in Paris without even leaving home.  Floanne envelopes you with style and originality, and leaves at the end of the night full of romance and forgetting where you are and where you came from… like in a Woody Allen movie. Come and revisit love from where it first originated, France, because after all French is the language of love, and Love is French.

 

Music Videos

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Voice Teachers

April Evans (opera, 2010-present)
Audrey Saint-Gil (coaching, 2012)
Patricia Scimeca (opera, 2002-2008)
Ann Arvia (musical theater)

Directors

Lina Koutrakos (Love is French)
Alice Jankell (Edith Piaf Alive, 2012)
Daniel Isengart (Floin’ to America, 2011)
Jean Brassard (J’avoue, 2010)

Musicians

Antonio Barbagallo, Rex Benincasa, Manu Bizeau, Matthew Briere, Larry Corban, Sédric Choukroun, Rob Curto, Yoni Downs, Kate Dunphy, Thomas Bryan Eaton, Dan Furman, Mike Higbee, Will Holshouser, Benjamin Ickies, Ron Jackson, Rachel Kaufman, Dana LaMarca, Peter Lewis Sloan, Ian Macdonald, Alberto Marques, Cédric Meyer, Mario Monaco, Jean Morel, Ray Parker, Samora Pinderhughes, Jordan Richardson, Alby Roblejo, Helen Russell, Nick Russo, Audrey Saint-Gil, Russ Spiegel, Marcel Van Dam, Grant Zubritsky

Management

Georges Martynuk (2011-2012)
Jerry Rudes/Mistral Artist Management (2010-2011)