• Sunday, November 27, 6 pm
22, rue Jacob 75006, Paris
Hymne à Piaf — Left Bank jazz club soirée with chanteuse Caroline Nin.
Tuesday, March 29, 8 pm
Catalina Jazz Club, 6725 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood
A fifteen-minute talk about No Regrets, and then a performance
by Jil Aigrot, who supplied some of the vocals for the movie La Vie en Rose.
May antipodean tour (see below for earlier May events)
Auckland Writers & Readers Festival
• Friday, May 13, 10–11 am
ASB Theatre, Aotea Centre
No Regrets, Edith Piaf — Join Carolyn for a journey through Piaf’s life, music and Paris in the first half of the twentieth century. Chair: Carole Beu.
• Saturday, May 14, 1–2 pm
Goodman Fieder Room, Level 4, Aotea Centre
Life-writing: Research and Texture — A biography workshop; Carolyn will share with you her most successful research techniques, and how to get the most out of what is revealed. She explores the use of fiction techniques as they apply to the richly contextual form that is contemporary biography.
• Thursday, May 19, 2:30–3:30 pm
Pier 2/3 Club Stage, Pier 2/3, Hickson Road, Walsh Bay
Je Ne Regrette Rien — Carolyn has uncovered new source material to add further dimensions to the tragic life of the beloved French chanteuse. An hour of words and music, followed by signing.
• Friday, May 20, 2:30–3:30 pm
Sydney Dance Company Studio 4, Pier 4/5, Hickson Road, Walsh Bay
French Kissing — Edith Piaf encapsulates our endless fascination with all things French, as her biographer Carolyn Burke so aptly demonstrates.
• Saturday, May 21, 4–5 pm
Sydney Dance Company, Studio 1, Pier 4/5, Hickson Road, Walsh Bay
The Artist’s Life — A conversation about biography with Suzanne Falkiner and Jacqueline Kent, herself a biographer of, among other people, Hephzibah Menuhin.
April whirlwind tour
NEW YORK
• Tuesday, April 5, 7 pm
New York University Maison Française, 16 Washington Mews
Reading and signing, accompanied by an exhibition of Hugues Vassal’s Piaf photographs.
212 998-8750
• Wednesday, April 6, 7 pm
Barnes & Noble, 150 East 86th Street
Carolyn will discuss Piaf’s years in New York; Q & A, signing.
212 369-2180
PARIS
• Wednesday, April 13, 7–9 pm
Restaurant des Beaux-Arts, 80 rue Mazarine
Leave the Metro at the Odéon station.
Tickets: 20 euros (includes charcuterie & wine).
33 6 70 98 13 68
• Thursday, April 14, 7:30 pm
The Abbey Bookshop, 29 rue de la Parcheminerie (Arrondissement 5)
Drinks, talk and conviviality at one of Carolyn’s favorite bookshops.
33 1 46 33 16 24
LONDON
• Saturday, April 16, 8 pm
The Vortex, 11 Gillett Square
For the official UK launch, author Carolyn Burke will be reading from her mesmerising, definitive new biography of Piaf, No Regrets, and there will also be exquisite Gallic chanson from the award-winning internationally acclaimed singer Barb Jungr; more here.
44 20 72 54 40 97
Call numbers above for more information
San Francisco Bay Area events for No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf
Published March 24 by Alfred A. Knopf
• Monday, March 28, 7:00 pm
San Carlos Library, 610 Elm Street, San Carlos
Thirty-minute talk followed by twenty-minute Q & A and book signing.
650 591-0341
• Thursday, April 28, 6:00 pm
Mechanics’ Institute Library, 57 Post Street, San Francisco
Thirty- to forty-minute talk followed by Q & A with the audience and book signing (reservations: 415 393-0100).
415 393-0114
• Wednesday, May 4, 7:30 pm
Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz
Carolyn will speak about Edith Piaf, followed by Q & A with the audience, and book signing.
831 460-3232
• Thursday, May 5, 7:00 pm
West Portal Books, 111 West Portal Avenue, San Francisco
Talk / Q & A / Signing
415 731-5291
• Wednesday, June 22, 6:30 pm
San Francisco Public Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco
Reading and signing with Cara Black in the Latino Community Room
(lower level).
415 557-4595
Call numbers above for more information, or email Kim Thornton at Knopf
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