25 octobre 2009
Mary-Lou and Hoboes Schedule
November
FR Saturday 7th - Courcouronnes (91) / 9pm / Espace Simone Signoret / Mary-Lou /10E - 6E
FR Sunday 8th - Courcouronnes (91) / 9pm / Espace Simone Signoret / Mary-Lou /10E - 6E
FR Saturday 14th - Capdenac (12) / 8.30 pm / Courants d'arts / Mary-Lou
FR Friday 27 th - St Jouan des Guerets (35) / 9pm / Le Présent têtu / 12/10 Euros / Food available / Mary-Lou
December
FR Saturday 12th - Plaine Haute (22) / 9pm / Le Couleur Café / Mary-Lou /5 E / Food available / Mary-Lou
April
Wandering and music along the railroad tracks of USA / Mary-Lou / The Hoboes
USA / Friday 23th Melbourne FL Full Moon Concert w/Tammerlin / 7pm
USA / Saturday 24th Sebastian FL Night Sounds of Sebastian inlet Park w/Tammerlin
May
USA / Thursday 6th Jacksonville FL European street w/Tammerlin
USA / Friday 7th Neptune Beach FL Music in the courtyard w/Tammerlin
USA / Saturday 29th Little Rock AR w/Bluegrass Bombers
June
USA / Thursday 3rd St Petersburg FL w/Panama Red
August
FR / Friday 6th Combourg (35) - Festival de la Lanterne / 21h / special Guest Benoît Perset (Drums, Percussions, harmony vocals) / Free / Mary-Lou
11 octobre 2009
Mary-Lou band in Netherlands
We played a few days ago at the Café de l'Epoque in Rouen (Normandy). A very friendly night in this magic place that fights to keep french music and blues alive.
Then, road to Netherlands for the 20th anniversary our our friend Rob "The Doc" band, Bootleg.
10 août 2009
Buy the France Bluegrass 2 compilation
The France Bluegrass 2 is available since 2009 august. 30 titles, and a almost exhaustive picture of the french bluegrass and folk music.
This double cd is available on the Mary-Lou website (15 Euros + 3 Euros of mail)
Buy 2 CDs and get the free mailing.
09 juin 2009
Vidéo - The making of the "Courrier Transatlantique" booklet
28 avril 2009
Mary-Lou April 2009 recording sessions
After a long time in our studio in Brittany, we proudly show you a few pictures of the recording. The tapes are on their way to Tallahassee to be mixed. 9 new songs of Félicie Garric and Jean-Luc Brosse (Honky tonk train, Take me back to cotton fields, Une Lettre, quand vient l'hiver, Way down home, Petite fenêtre, Comme qui dirait, Rosalina), 2 covers (Live a little, I wanna be a cowboy's sweetheart).The cd will be ready in june. The song Rosalina will also be included in the compilation France Bluegrass 2009, as Miss the Mississippi and you by the Hoboes. Enjoy this clip, tell your friends about it. Thanks for your support.
12 février 2009
Clips by Mary-Lou® and Hoboes
17 janvier 2009
Mary-Lou - French country and americana band - Shop
4 albums of the Mary-Lou® band are available at the price of 10 Euros and 15 Euros (for the double album).
The double album 1998/2000 : ré-édition of the 2 firsts albums of the band offers covers of american songs and new songs in french written by the band.
Les orages de poussière : French original songs, tribute to Woody Guthrie (2003)
Americana Favorites : americana folk and country covers (2006)
Mary-Lou en concert : concert DVD + clip and interview (2006)
A new album "Courrier Transatlantique" is being recorded (2009).
Mary_Lou_Americana_Favorites
All the mary-Lou records are on sale (at 10 and 15 Euros) on the official website of the band.
Crayons de couleur build a school in Bamako (Mali)
We played a few monthes ago in Lamballe (Brittany) for our friends of the Crayons de couleurs Association Crayons de Couleur who were raising funds to build a school in the suburbs of Bamako (Mali). We are proud to be part of this.
Here's a picture.
Mary-Lou® concert in Ecommoy (72)
Mary-Lou (just Mary and Jean-Luc) meet the Lonesome Day duet for a very special Bluegrass and Americana concert SATURDAY JANUARY 31th 2009 from 7pm in this magic place La Ferme d'Eugénie in Ecommoy, Sarthe (near Le Mans, France).
Come share this experience with us : 02 43 42 60 65. Site :
11 novembre 2008
1000 people for 1000 dreams with Mary-Lou
You have been more than one thousand, sunday november 9th in Plozevet (Finistère), to celebrate with us the election of Barack Obama. THANK YOU YOUR SUPPORT. Your messages of kindness and hope have touched us in our hearts. Now, we want to say to all the volunteers, all the musicians (Paul Conibear,
Lonesome Day, Brendan De Roeck et David Chevalier (from the Dizzy Town Blues Band), Dominique Adelin, Chakidor), to the town of Plozevet, to our friends Pierrot Bosser, Président of the Festival Mondial Folk, Hugues Stephan, General Manager of the Avel Dro and Gail and Gail and Tom Watts, in North Carolina, who answered our qustions about the election, to the medias that supported us, and to all the others, who will recognize themselves, from deep in our heart, a hudge THAN YOU !
Let the musicians who couldn't play because of the timing forgive us.
All the pictures (of Jacques Goascoz and Jocelyn Lecocq) are available in the photograph book left column, or on this link.
Art work by Jocelyn Lecocq