August 10, 2018 :: Helsinki
Musicalarue in Luxey, the story of a village festival that has become a big festival
The 29th edition of the Musicalarue festival ends this Sunday, August 12th. Once again this year, the 700 inhabitants of the small village of Luxey (Landes) perpetuated a festive tradition started in the 60s. The village festival has become a festival that attracts more than 45,000 people attracted by the state of mind and by a poster that mixes Big Flow and Oli, Pierre Perret or Shaka Ponk.
Musicalarue is certainly one of the oldest festivals in France, one of the most convivial too. It all started in 1968. At the time, young people from Luxey (pronounced “Luxeille”!) Decided to organize a village party around August 15th which mixed music of all kinds, street shows and carnival parade.
“It’s a family!”
From one thread to another, the patronal feast became a festival in the 90s but without losing this spirit “great artistic country buffet” as François Garrain describes it. Today president of the association Musicalarue and director of the festival, he was part of the group of young people who launched this adventure. “Musicalarue is a different kind of party, with the live performance in high point and the meeting between all the generations,” he explains. “It’s a family” added Johanna Turpeau, one of the 150 volunteers mobilized for the festival. “Once we’ve done one, we all do it!”
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Reportage: Mr. Vial / J.-C. Duclos / J. Michaan / E. Goldstein
Watch full concert: Camélia Jordana
Camélia Jordana a un credo : “prouver que l’on peut sortir d’une émission populaire et faire de la vraie musique”. Propulsée sur le devant de la scène grâce à La Nouvelle Star, la chanteuse a vite su s’entourer de la crème de la chanson française. Cette famille de coeur – composée notamment de Matthieu Boogaerts, Babx et Raphaële Lannadère – est à l’origine de Camélia, un premier album ayant charmé public et critique. Quelques années plus tard, elle nous ravie de nouveau avec Dans la peau, opus pour lequel Camélia s’est mise à l’écriture. Des chansons qui explorent les thèmes de l’amour et du voyage, où la voix de jeune femme change d’âge au grès des mots. Après avoir mis à l’épreuve ses talents de comédienne pour le grand et le petit écran, l’artiste a récemment brillé dans Mimi – une relecture de La Bohème de Puccini mise en musique par Frédéric Verrières et mise en scène par Guillaume Vincent. De quoi convaincre les plus récalcitrants.
Live at Vanves – Decembre 2014
00:00 Comment lui dire
04:56 Madi
10:09 La fuite
14:56 Brigitte dit vrai
19:27 Miramar
23:14 Illégale
27:10 Sarah sait
32:52 Dans la peau
37:23 A l’aveuglette
42:23 Moi c’est
46:25 Colonel chagrin
50:27 Ma gueule
55:36 Retrograde (James Blake cover)
59:23 Jeune homme
01:02:59 Berlin
01:06:50 J’aime l’orage
Jean Cocteau
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, writer, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. Cocteau is best known for his novel Les Enfants Terribles (1929), and the films The Blood of a Poet (1930), Les Parents Terribles (1948), Beauty and the Beast (1946) and Orpheus (1949).
His circle of associates, friends included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí, Gertrude Stein, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Yul Brynner, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, Ernst Jünger, Albert Gleizes, Igor Stravinsky, Marie Laurencin, María Félix, Édith Piaf, Panama Al Brown, Colette, Jean Genet, and Raymond Radiguet. (Wikipedia)
Camille avec Pascal Comelade : “Piscine” Live au Théâtre de l’Archipel
Hundreds evacuated as flash floods hit southern France
Rescuers backed by helicopters evacuated about 1,600 people, most of them campers, in southern France on Thursday as heavy rain caused flash flooding and transformed rivers and streams into torrents, the interior minister said.
Hardest hit was the Gard region, where 119 children, many of them from Germany, were evacuated from their campsite at Saint-Julien-de-Peyrolas, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said in a statement.
About 750 people in all were evacuated in Gard, mainly from campsites, a top district official, Thierry Dousset, told France’s BFM-TV news channel [. . . ]
Source: Hundreds evacuated as flash floods hit southern France – France 24
