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Parents, don’t be too concerned if your
little boy or your teenager is noisier than usual.
In fact, if he has a tendency to bang against
everything that he comes across, it’s probably
because he attended the show of the CréaSon
group, and his reaction is normal… unless
it’s his little brother that he’s
banging on.
On October 1, 2, 3 and 4, CréaSon gave
11 shows to audiences totalling 3,000 pupils.
All the primary and secondary schools in the Matapedia
region were successively invited to the Amqui
comprehensive school to attend the show, which
lasts about an hour.
CréaSon is the “young public”
version of the Scrap group, which gave a performance
for the general public on Thursday, October 4.
An astonishing and exciting group that delighted
the young people present at the show, which L’Avant-Poste
also attended. Their innovation: making music
solely with percussion instruments. But what really
makes them original is that these instruments
are made from salvaged objects such as shopping
baskets, plastic water bottles, car wheels, large
metal barrels, cylindrical potato chip containers,
hockey sticks and many other objects.
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The music that comes from this
is amazing! And although most teachers seemed
shy about going up onto the stage, this wasn’t
the case for the kids. They needed no prompting!
And when the last piece was announced, disappointed
cries of “Oh! No” came from the young
audience. But, finally, everyone jumped out of
their seats and more or less jigged to an African-type
rhythm.
In short, this is an experience
worth repeating in this or some other format.
And it is so refreshing for adults as well as
youngsters, and an especially welcome change from
the face of terror which has recently been all
too present on our television screens.
The initiative should have positive
“repercussion” at various levels,
whether it be on education and young people’s
interest in culture and, indirectly, on their
parents. And perhaps even on ticket sales for
the show presented by the Codec… because
there’s nothing quite like a cultural outing
to give our morale a boost.
L'AVANT-POSTE
web site
(french)
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