Thomas Dutronc fails at the tribute concert to Françoise Hardy at the Bourges Festival

The tribute to Françoise Hardy will occur without her son. Thomas Dutronc was expected Wednesday evening at 8 p.m. at the Le Printemps de Bourges music festival for a tribute show to his mother. But he ultimately won’t come. “He was surprised by an air traffic controllers’ strike,” musician Ambroise Willaume, alias Sage, told the newspaper Republican Berry . Movement which will notably affect Parisian airports on Thursday. According to the Printemps de Bourges press service, the singer, who came from Corsica, could a priori be there this evening but was not guaranteed to be able to leave tomorrow due to the strike.

Sage is the initiator of the project Personal Messages François Hardya tribute to the register of the singer who celebrated her 80th birthday this year. “As Thomas Dutronc had to do songs that we had already done the first time by other people, we will try to find solutions like that, because we will not be able to bounce back and change everything (…) He’s Françoise Hardy’s son, it was obvious that he was there. But it’s a tribute from a new generation, it remains totally coherent. We are thinking so that he is there without being there”explains Sage.

At the Hyper Weekend Festival in Paris at the end of January, the creation Personal Messages François Hardy had already been performed by around ten artists including Thomas Dutronc, Clara Luciani and Philippe Katerine.

Françoise Hardy, aged 80, has been fighting cancer for several years. In December 2023, she confided her wish to “leave soon and quickly, without too many challenges, such as the impossibility of breathing”. “Even though my mother is very bad and has difficulty walking, she is not yet in the state where one can wish to die,” replied Thomas Dutronc to AFP in January 2024. “She doesn’t want to die. She wants to stay for me, it’s moving. She wants to transmit.” he added.