No regrets as Byrne sings Piaf’s songbook

In the run-up to Bastille Day, singer, Jeanette Byrne (inset), will perform from the songbook of the famous French chanteuse Edith Piaf at Triskel Christchurch in Cork on Saturday.

The concert, ‘No Regrets,’ was put together by Byrne who first performed it on the 50th anniversary of Piaf’s death last year at the Sugar Club in Dublin.

Byrne, who grew up between London and Dublin, had a French grandmother on her mother’s side. “That’s where the French influence comes from,” says Byrne. “I stayed with my grandmother every summer in a village near the Loire Valley. I speak French reasonably well and I have always worked at music in one way or another.”