Jane Birkin – lover and muse to Serge Gainsbourg and mother to Charlotte – will be making a rare NYC appearance this Sunday at Town Hall, performing Gainsbourg's songs. Originally organized as a one-time benefit for the tsunami victims in Japan, Birkin describes why she decided to take the show on the road:
"I wondered why I was singing Serge again, even if it was celebrating the 20 years after Serge's death, but what did I have to offer…Then there was the Japanese disaster … of unbelievable horror, earthquake, tsunami, and then the ghasly news of the nuclear horror, the like of which we had never witnessed…
What to do? I have known these people for forty years… "go there" I thought… tell them that back home folk are thinking of them, but get there, "and do what ?" What can I do? …the only thing I can do… a concert…
When asked if I wanted to do the concerts for Serge in America… I said "yes, BUT with these Japanese musicians.
Here we come… Serge Gainsbourg and Jane via Japan."
Tickets available at the Town Hall box office or online.