Jazz on the Champs-Élysées — A Concert in an Ancient Monastery by the Sea by Candlelight

This evening, ancient walls will be filled with the gentle light of hundreds of candles, while the air will carry the breath of the sea. And somewhere between the saxophone, the sound of the waves, and the muted hum of the evening city, Paris will begin…

Where every melody is like a memory. Where the bars in which cabaret sounded a hundred years ago are still alive, where swing was first danced—in the light of old lanterns and beside lonely bridges across the Seine.

This evening, the open-air grounds of the Armenian monastery by the sea will turn into a private Parisian club: instead of neon, hundreds of candles; instead of city noise, the breath of the great waters beyond the walls.

The Champs-Élysées will resound with the pulse of the double bass, the gentle chords of the grand piano, the piercing solo of the saxophone, and the voice of Rinat Goldman.

La vie en rose—like an anthem to the great city—will dissolve into the evening cool and the sea air of another shore.

Sous le ciel de Paris—and we are already traveling through the narrow streets of Montmartre, where Van Gogh and Picasso lived.

I Will Wait for You—an invitation to a date at the Wall of Love, where Amélie was filmed.

Champs-Élysées—like a walk for two. Jazz of the Champs-Élysées.

Edith Piaf and Michel Legrand await you. Joe Dassin and Jean-Jacques Goldman invite you on this jazz journey.

Performers:

Rinat Goldman (vocals)

Jazz band: Musicians of the Sum Funny Orchestra—a group bringing together musicians with academic experience from leading theaters and philharmonic societies. Today, they are artists of the Haifa Symphony Orchestra and active participants in Israel’s contemporary music scene.

Please note: The concert takes place outdoors on the grounds of an old monastery by the sea. It may be cool by the sea in the evening, so we recommend bringing a light shawl or something warm in case of chilly weather.

Please also note that there is no bar or café on the monastery grounds.

The monastery entrance is from the Jaffa promenade, not through the Old City.

See you among the candles, music, and evening sea.