An itinerant storytelling walk, musical, bilingual Occitan and French, will leave on Sunday July 10, at 10 a.m., from the Textile and Horn Comb Museum to the oratory of Sainte-Rufine. A round trip is planned from the city center to the top of the “soula”, at the oratory which overlooks the city.
Dominique Despierre tells the legend and sings traditional Occitan songs, accompanied by two musicians, Raphaël on the violin and kemençe and Hélios on the gypsy guitar. “The legend of the Ménestrel de Sainte-Rufine” is a medieval legend from Ariège, that of an Occitan musician, in the time of the troubadours, who plays and sings his ballads in the langue d’oc in the courtyards of castles or in the market square. to the sheets. There he frequents a whole “court of miracles”, listens to the stories of poets and storytellers. He will even make an astonishing encounter, that of Sainte-Rufine, the patroness of the weavers of the town of Avelana (Lavelanet) who offers him her protection. Will Ilan the brave be able to free Balabine the golden-haired spinner chained to her loom by the monstrous Churalo? You will find out by listening to the tale with Joan and her canvas songs.
