If singer-songwriter Yvan Pion had any doubts about recording a song with schoolchildren in Lac-Mégantic, Que., to mark the 10th anniversary of the explosive train derailment that ripped apart their town, they were erased after one 10-year-old approached him.
“She said to me, ‘Yvan, you know I never liked July the sixth because it’s my birthday, and I was one year old at the time [of the tragedy],'” said Pion.
“I looked her in the eyes and I said, ‘Participating in this project, you may now create something new. Just being here with us and singing.'”
Yvan Pion wrote the song ‘Amour et
