Be Your Own Troubadour
As part of the Occitan University in Laguépie, France, I am giving a workshop and presentation:
Workshop: Tracey Warr and Amandine Rey
Be Your Own Troubadour
Thursday 18 July and Friday 19 July
10am-12 noon
Salle des Fetes, Laguépie 82250
60 euros, In French, English and Occitan
Learn about troubadour vidas (introductory, often boasting, biographies), tensos (debate songs, usually between a man and a woman about love), and cansos (love songs) and create your own. You can work in Occitan, French or English. If you wish, you can sing or read your creations on Friday 19 July 9pm at the Chateau. Places are limited. To book email traceykwarr@gmail.com
Presentation: Tracey Warr in conversation with Amandine Rey
Three Female Lords: The 11th-Century La Marche Sisters
Friday 19 July, 9pm
Château de Saint-Martin-Laguépie, 81170
Free, In French and English
Tracey Warr talks with Amandine Rey about the three La Marche Sisters, Almodis, Countess of Toulouse and Barcelona; Raingarde, Regent in Carcassonne and Lucia, Regent in Pallars Sobira in the Pyrenees. Almodis was kidnapped from the count of Toulouse by the count of Barcelona and excommunicated for her marriage in Barcelona. William of Malmesbury accused her of being ‘afflicted with a godless female itch’. When her sister’s husband and then son died, she purchased Carcassonne from her for Barcelona. A presentation exploring the actions and motives of these three female lords.
Tracey Warr is a writer based in Laguépie. Amandine Rey is a singer and Occitan teacher living in the Lot Valley.
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