Eight festivals to delight your ears

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2023-05-15 00:00:08

THE MORNING LIST

This week, we are offering you a festival trip all over the territory, which will lead to jazz, classical music, so-called world music, crossovers with different genres, rock and pop, song, musical and vocal forms of oral tradition and transmission.

Jazz in Coutances

A sign of its success, the Jazz sous les pommiers festival, of which the 42e edition is organized, from May 13 to 20, in about twenty places in the city of Coutances (Manche) displayed several days before starting a number of sold-out concerts (Vincent Peirani and Emile Parisien, Robert Cray, Laurent Bardainne, Red Desert Orchestra, Camille Bertault, Sandra Nkaké, Steve Coleman, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Erik Truffaz…). However, there is still enough to satisfy those who will be there or will make the trip to this town whose city center is the heart of the festival. Our selection: the instrumentalists and dancers of the Red Line Crossers, on May 15; the jazz fusion group Sixun, the 16; bassist Sélène Saint-Aimé on the 17th; saxophonist Sylvain Rifflet and his tribute to Stan Getz on the 18th, as well as the duo of violinist Dominique Pifarély and Italian double bass player Federica Michisanti; the large Ensemble orchestra, led by pianist Thierry Maillard, on the 19th, and a little later in the Positive Force evening by Femi Kuti, one of Fela’s sons. S. Si.

Jazz festival under the apple trees, in Coutances (Manche), in about twenty places and rooms in the city. Until May 20. From €4 to €28.

Discoveries and musical encounters in Langon-sur-Vilaine

The purpose of the Borders festival, in Langon-sur-Vilaine (Ille-et-Vilaine) is announced in an introductory text to its program: “ from repetitive music to electroacoustic music via free-folk, punk jazz, irreverent song or exciting ball! “. It is therefore desires for discoveries, musical crossovers that are on the program of the 8e edition, from May 17 to 20, of this event which is also attentive to the visual arts and gastronomy. With violinist Clément Janinet’s quartet, OURS for Ornette Under the Repetitive Skies, an alliance of free-jazz and repetitive music, saxophonist and clarinettist Hugues Mayot for a solo cycle, an interpretation of the composition In C, by Terry Riley, by twenty pipers and pipers led by Erwan Keravec, the duo Qonicho Ah! (Morgane Carnet, saxophone, and Blanche Lafuente, drums), trombonist Christiane Bopp (Chapelle de Gavrain, Renac, May 19) the duo Kristoff K.Roll, a string trio with Jacky Molard (violin), Pauline Willerval ( gadulka, a bowed string instrument from Bulgaria) and Bruno Ducret (cello), the group Pulcinella… S. Si.

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