2023-11-29 20:00:00
“Any artist in Quebec would have gone, everyone would have said yes. I was touched, moved and honored by their choice. I wanted it to be done simply with the idea of taking care of Karl’s memory, as well as people’s affection and love.
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It’s mission accomplished for Émile Proulx-Cloutier.
The day following the moving tribute evening dedicated to Karl Tremblay, which he hosted brilliantly at the Bell Centre, the actor is overwhelmed by messages of gratitude and recognition.
Bereaved admirers of the Cowboys Fringants from the four corners of Quebec and abroad wrote to him.
“You were perfect Émile. It did us good that you were there,” praised a Cowboys Fringants fan on her Facebook page.
For Émile Proulx-Cloutier, these comments, like yesterday’s ceremony, represent an “exceptional and solemn wave of love”.
AFP
The right words
Just like Marie-Annick Lépine, Jean-François Pauzé and Jérôme Dupras, Émile Proulx-Cloutier knew how to find the right words to speak regarding Karl Tremblay to the crowd and relieve the pain of the hundred thousand people who watched the ceremony in line.
“If we might have found an amphitheater ten times or a hundred times bigger so we might all gather, that’s where we would be. Again, it would not have been big enough to contain all the love and affection that Quebec feels for Karl Tremblay. “It wouldn’t have been big enough to contain all the pain that his departure leaves in its wake,” he said upon his arrival on the scene.
Émile Proulx-Cloutier confides that he was personally overwhelmed by the image of the three members of the group singing for the first time without Karl, but for him, “with the voice of 14,000 people”.
PHOTO CHARLES OLIVIER MICHAUD
A living organism
In this Bell Center made up of the hard core of admirers for whom the love of the Cowboys Fringants was forged over a period of more than 25 years, Émile Proulx-Cloutier understood what the daily life of this group acclaimed by thousands of admirers.
“This crowd of 14,000 people was a living organism. I had to listen, open a dialogue and give it something that was not forced, but felt,” continues the artist, who is not a close friend of the group, but who knows it well. friendly, being represented by the same record company.
“It sounded strong and good, like a show in a place that had often hosted them,” concludes the artist.
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