Overview
Overview
Valérie Imbert is of Norman origin, she spent all her childhood at Mont St Michel and first moved towards the tradition of Upper Brittany after being interested in early music and theatre.
Arriving in the Vendée in 1984, she was immediately interested in the traditional, danced and sung repertoire of Vendée and Poitou-Charentes.
She participates in many artistic projects and transmits her passion and repertoire to people of all ages (children, students, adults).
Holder of the State Diploma in Traditional Singing (DE), she is a school worker, at the CFMI in Poitiers, at the Conservatory in Bressuire and at the CESMD in Poitiers and also a teacher of musical awakening, children’s choir and traditional singing, in several music schools in the Vendée.
“Valérie, tall stature and powerful voice, increasingly modulated over time, is, in addition to her knowledge, constantly questioned and deepened, first of all someone generous, who willingly transmits the strength and pleasure of sharing that are in her…”
Following a meeting in 2007 at a singing festival, Valérie Imbert and Brigitte Kloareg quickly decided to give voice together. The first opportunity was to be on board the Rigolo, a traditional mackerel boat in the small port of Doëlan (29) in 2008. They have become the “Dames de Nage”, (meaning both “Swimming Women” and “Rowlocks” in English) an essential navigation tool on board any boat!
They offer in joyful complicity a repertoire of songs from their respective territories and elsewhere: songs by the water, from islands to harbours, from the cellar to the table….