For several years in the holiday season, an evening organized Landriault Sourire special child to collect toys to distribute to children in need. The cost of entry is simply a new toy and spectators have a right to a very varied show that doubles as a little Christmas party for several songwriters and performers who have come to the cause.

This year, the event took an additional color as our Master Singer could not count on the bistro of the same name to host the evening. Do not worry, he got the hall staircase, en plein quartier Latin, to speak again this year and demonstrate the resilience that he knows. Many artists have moved to support him in this task, always an evening sponsored by the duo Paquin Landriault. On stage, we could find (or discover) pleased the Louis-André Bourque, Carmen Paquin, Danielle Tremblay (Lazuli), pero, Marie-Suzanne Brossoit, Fred Dubonnet, Claude Robillard, Maroval (Robert Marchand and Marie Delaval) Michel Rheault and Johanne Prud’homme. Each artist brought their particular color to the event and take the opportunity to launch many messages of solidarity with the poorest of our society.

The toys collected will be donated to the organization Children of Bethany (www.ledb.org) that help child victims of AIDS. Thank you to all those who came and gave their time for the occasion. New Child Smile evening at Bistro Le Maître Chanteur in order to raise victuals for children in need, particularly those with AIDS and grouped under the umbrella of the organization Children of Bethany. To do so, a dozen artists of the song were given appointments on the spot and each has offered three songs from his repertoire to the public for the price of entry is simply to non-perishable food.

We were treated to the usual place, I think the duo Landriault Paquin, Jean-Marie Pelletier, Francine Christie, Geneviève Binette, but also to newcomers (for me anyway), Waguih, Sarah-Hélène Côté (a young Ontarians who was semi-finalist at the Festival de Granby) and Claude Robillard. The opportunity was too good to Carmen Paquin, who is not doing the job, pushing the song to an audience very carefully. It was also very pleasant to review Anne-Marie Gélinas and rediscover his legendary intensity.

By late evening, our friends and Landriault Paquin are mounted on stage and, as always, we are affected by their texts engaged on the human condition. Landriault mentioned wanting a days to stop this kind of event that only when the need only becomes more apparent, this is probably the greatest victory of mankind, but will there be in our lifetime I doubt it. While the man is looking for, you can count on people like him, like Monica and all the artists who came to lend a hand tonight, not just singing a volunteer, but also by providing their own food for children.