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Dimoné (France)

March 10, 2017 8:00 pm. Winner of the Diffusion Inter-Centres Franco-Européen award at the 2015 Festival International de la Chanson de Granby.Dimoné is not one of those docile tramp steamers hugging the shore. He prefers to head offshore, in search of waves. This poet-cartographer travels impestuous interior currents, wanders from dream to fantasy, washing away doubt and fact. And finally anchoring in unexplored country, between the blushing 40ths and the pressing 50ths, where modesty battles sincerity, the sacred combats the secret, rage confronts tenderness. His honed writing, against the steam of daily chronicles, aspires to the universal. His pen caresses man to the bone, chisels verbs with elegance, at the whim of wordplay and double meanings. With a penetrating voice, low and yet silken, he distils a simple, almost carnal poetry, perched on a pop melody carried by guitars. Demonic dandy, Dimoné sizzles, irradiates, bubbles, crackles and splashes.. 120 Principale StreetGatineau, ON J9H 3M3.. Event Details. Location: 120 Principale Street, Ottawa