Available to book from €2000 (EUR). For an accurate quote please make an enquiry.
... UNLIKELY CHILDREN OF THE DOLCE ÉPOQUE ...
Yves Montand, Dalida, Gainsbourg, Charles Aznavour, Mina, Joe Dassin, Claude Francois, Brigitte Bardot, Patty Pravo. And even France Gall, Mireille Mathieu, Françoise Hardy. And Edith Piaf. Established admirers of the charming epoque ‘dolce époque’ of the Côte d'Azur, Belle Histoire grew up listening to melodies on side A of the singles played over and over on their parents’ record players. Those songs that accompanied the wonderful years of the second French Belle Epoque and the Italian Dolce Vita. The melodies that relive the fifties and sixties even today.
Belle Histoire began in 2013 with the intention of proposing a repertoire of the great classics of that era performed in pure ‘Riviera’ style. Just like what one would listen to on café juke boxes on the promenade in Nice or Piazza di Spagna, on the Croisette Boulevard in Cannes as well as along the bay of Saint-Tropez or while sipping an aperitif in the Valbonne square or at the Piper in Rome.
Belle Histoire’s artistic research is about style as well as sound: strictly acoustic instruments and the songs which are masterfully interpreted in their original language by Federica Vino, bestow the charming atmosphere of bygone days.
= free travel (up to 50 miles)
C’est l’amour – Edith Piaf
Come prima – Tony Dallara (vers. Dalida)
Je ne veux pas travailler – Pink Martini
Hymne a l’amour – Edit Piaf
La Javanaise – Serge Gainsbourg
Il venait d’avoir 18 ans – Dalida
La foule – Edith Piaf
La vie en rose – Edith Piaf
Les Passants – Zaz
Mes Emmerdes – Charles Aznavour
Milord – Edith Piaf
Mon dieu – Edith Piaf
Mon legionnaire – Edith Piaf
Mon manege a toi – Edith Piaf
Neige et fleurs – Federica Vino
Non, je ne regrette rien – Edith Piaf
Padam Padam – Edith Piaf
Paris sera toujours Paris – Maurice Chevalier
Sous le ciel de Paris – Hubert Giraud
Tous les garçons et les filles – Françoise Hardy
Une belle histoire – Michel Fugain
Zou bisou bisou – Gillian Hills
Come prima – Tony Dallara
Ho un sassolino nella scarpa – Natalino Otto
I found my love in portofino – Fred Buscaglione
Il cielo in una stanza – Gino Paoli
Il cuore è uno zingaro – Nada
Io che non vivo senza te – Pino Donaggio
La vita è bella – Nicola Piovani
La voglia, la pazzia – Ornella Vanoni
Nessuno – Mina
Non dimenticar – Gino Redi
Quando Quando Quando – Tony Renis
Quel motivetto che mi piace tanto – Nicola Arigliano
Sapore di sale – Gino Paoli
Se telefonando – Mina
Tintarella di luna – Mina
Torpedo blu – Giorgio Gaber
Tu vuo fa l’americano – Renato Carosone
Un bacio a mezzanotte – Gorni Kramer
A tale as old as time – Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast)
All of me – John Legend
All of me – Ella Fitzgerald
At last – Etta James
Blue moon – Richard Rodgers
Can’t help falling in love – Elvis Presley
Careless love – Traditional
Cheek to Cheek – I. Berlin / Fred Astaire
Crazy he calls me – Billie Holiday
Did I remember – Billie Holiday
Dream a little dream of me- The Mamas and The Papas
Fly me to the moon – Frank Sinatra
I’m beginning to see the light – Duke Ellington
I Wanna Be Loved By You – Marilyn Monroe
Isn’t she lovely – Stevie Wonder
I’ve got you under my skin – Frank Sinatra
It had to be you – Frank Sinatra
Just the way you are – Billy Joel
L.O.V.E. – Natalie Cole
Moon river – Henry Mancini
Perfect – Ed Sheeran
Route 66 – Bobby Troup
Sentimental Journey – Ella Fitzgerald
Shoo fly pie and apple pan dowdy – Dinah Shore
Stand by me – Ben E. King
Straighten up and fly right – Nat King Cole
Take it easy greasy – Naomi & Her Handsome Devils
That’s amore – Dean Martin
The dock of the bay – Otis Redding
The Way You Look Tonight – Frank Sinatra
Thinking out loud – Ed Sheeran
Tuxedo Junction – Glenn Miller
Wade in the water – Eva Cassidy
Why don’t you do right – Peggy Lee
All of me – Gerald Marks
Beautiful love – Victor Young
Black Orpheus – Louis Bonfa
Bye bye blackbird – Mort Dixon
C’est si bon – Yves Montand
Deep Purple – Peter DeRose
Don’t get around much anymore – Duke Ellington
Honeysuckle rose – Fats Waller
I can’t give you anything but love – J. McHugh
In a mellow tone – Duke Ellington
It don’t mean a thing – Duke Ellington
Jersey Bounce – Benny Goodman
Just Squeeze me – Duke Ellington
La mer/Beyond the sea – Charles Trenet
Love me tender – Elvis Presley
Lullaby of birdland – George Shearing
On the sunny side of the street – Jimmy McHugh
Pushin’ Sand – Kay Kyser
Que reste t’il de nos amours? – Charles Trenet
Shiny Stockings – Frank Foster
The bare necessities – Terry Gilkyson (The Jungle Book)
The girl from Ipanema – Jobim
Une homme et una femme – Francis Lai
Wave – Jobim
What a wonderful world – Louis Armstrong
We need a performance space of at least 3 meters X 5 meters.
We need to know the right place and the timing of the venue.
We provide the sound system for live music.
Yes, of course.
We performer in a luxury Hotel based in Montecarlo for a big international company.
The band Belle Histoire is available for concerts, festivals and music events. It also offers refined and elegant musical accompaniment for meetings, dinners, corporate events, wedding parties. We have a diffusion and amplification sound system suitable for any occasion
We started gigging together in 2013. We have played in Montecarlo, Nizza, Cap D'Antibes, Milano, Roma, Portofino, Brescia, Torino, Como, Varese, Riva del Garda, Vicenza, Cremona, Mantova, Limone Piemonte, Bolzano and many other small towns.
We love french music, but we also play italian and english songs.
We normally arrive 2 hours before the performance to set up. We normally perform 3 x 40 minutes sets. We’re happy to play a bit longer or shorter but we’ve found that these set times suit us and our audiences best.
We’re happy to play outside but we ask for shade, a flat level surface and a power supply close to the performance area
We can learn specific songs before the event but we usually limit this to 2 songs. The clients are welcome to pick a set list from our repertoire or let us choose the music for them
Previous customers would describe us as an elegant and rafined group.
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