Corsican Music Three

We found a pleasant little restaurant in Ajaccio on Rue du Comte Bacciochi, a wide pedestrian street (meaning only some cars use it) with the restaurant on the footpath, and enough room to stay away from the smokers.  The woman who served us coffee there in the morning promised that there would be music in the evening, and so we decided to sample our third offering of Corsican music, this time with food.  So we returned that evening (14^th July) to have dinner before heading down to the fireworks.

When we arrived we encountered the scene in this photo.  Duelling musicians.

Musicians on each side of the road in competing restaruants

Our restaurant was the one on the left, and our entertainment for the night was a guitarist playing jazz / blues loud enough to be heard on the restaurant on the other side of the road.  The restaurateur on the right had hired his own performer in order to attract the crowds to his establishment, but he was around 5 minutes too late. Our guitarist played continuously, not leaving a gap for the opposition to start up and drown him out. Le Patron across the road was more and more agitated as our restaurant was filling with customers and he had only 2 –not counting his children sitting out the front to make it look like there were plenty of customers.  Finally, our performer tired, and took a break, however the entertainer across the road had stopped for dinner and the Le Patron had disappeared. 

Then they arrived – Le Point de Séparation marched down the road and declared themselves the winners in the music contest.

We dropped in on the way home after the fireworks, and found the performer from the second restaurant in full voice singing disco songs from the late seventies!