Music festival in Agen: “It had to end where it all began”, Stellia Koumba on the Ducourneau stage for the last Gloryspel concert

“When the show written by Roger Louret ends, I am 25 years old. I am considering going to Paris to take the administration exams. Then I received a phone call from Francis Cabrel, and I found myself doing the backing vocals on his album ‘‘In extremis.” It was a sign… … » The connection to the South-West, “which carried me, brought me, welcomed me, with my family, when I arrived from Gabon”, offers the singer the opportunity to set up a gospel choir, after the successful proposal to lead a few workshops.

For eight years, the project has spread: two groups in the region, one in Paris, one in Lille, and “for three years, one in South Africa, composed by singers from Soweto. A whole adventure, a family, created with people, some of whom had never sung. This is why this last concert at the Ducourneau theater is a nice cherry on the Gloryspel cake. It had to end where it all began,” says the mother-to-be, recalling the live album recorded on this same stage in 2019.

Voyage

This gathering of a hundred choristers, from yesterday and today, for “two hours of concert, with an intermission”, will revisit the epic of this unifying project, supported by the connections made through travel. …We will sing in several languages, French, English, Spanish, Zulu and in Punu, a Gabonese dialect and other African languages… …

Now based in Reims, Stellia Koumba is delighted with “this beautiful last scene, integrated into the program of the Music Festival in a city which has always supported me and which is dear to my heart”.