Explore
the bars, cabarets, dance halls, and – most especially – the cocktails of Paris
during Les Anneés Folles (“the crazy years”)
Paris in the 1920s is where everyone met and where
everything was happening. The Hemingways and Fitzgeralds gathered for drinks at
Harry’s New York Bar and might go from there on a jaunt up to Montmartre –
collecting Gerald and Sara Murphy along the way – to listen to Josephine Baker
(La Bakair) and enjoy champagne cocktails. Over glasses of Pernod at Le Dome we
might find Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí lamenting that they can’t get their
hands on the “real stuff” – absinthe – and how they might depict on film,
slicing a human eye with a razorblade. Then we might drop into Au Lapin Agile
for their signature Brandy with Cherries where we might run into Pablo Picasso
and listen while “a guitarist twangs; a harpist strums; another sings jolly
songs in which everyone joins – all in French.”
1920s
Paris was a cross-section of western civilization with something to please
everyone. Dubbed The Cocktail Epoch, it was a time when society itself was a
cocktail, “a bright mixture…[blending] people of all tastes and classes.” Join
us for a virtual night not to be missed as cocktail historian Luis Rodriguez
leads us on a drinking tour of La Ville–Lumière, while along the way we are
entertained by the melodious voice of Jeudi the Vintage-Voiced Chanteuse
and enthralled by the moving presentations of Paris native and dance historian,
Walter Nelson.
This is a replay of a previously recorded event
Tickets:
$6 for members
$10 for non-members
Recording Available until August 31, 2022 at 11:59pm PDT