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Ben Toury
This Rhythm & Blues quartet is led by Benjamin Toury, singer, pianist and harmonicist. Self-taught, he’s been composing and performing on stage since the age of 11 and already has a career spanning 23-years behind him. A highly energetic and strong performer, his hands fly over the keyboard with cra...
Brotherhood Heritage at the Rendez-vous de L’Erdre, Nantes
A big band of the 1970s, Brotherhood of Breath lit up the European jazz scene. Stemming from a multiracial South African orchestra (formed despite apartheid), it produced a fusion of South African pop and improvised music created under the guidance of pianist Chris McGregor.
The project piloted by F...
El Fuego Latino (Alondra de la Parra / Alexis Cardenas)
Alondro de la Parra is a phenomenon: luminous and charismatic, she has established herself as one of the first female chief conductors of a major symphony orchestra with natural ease and brilliance.
Her enthusiastic, generous and spellbinding performances make her concerts a real treat.
Alexis Card...
Elmer Food Beat
On June 21, 2016, Elmer Food Beat celebrated its 30th anniversary. After selling a million records, after gold and platinum albums, a sell-out concert at Olympia, a Victoires de la Musique award, more than 900 concerts (with audiences of 20 to 20,000 people), millions of kilometres travelled and tho...
Emanuel Gat & Awir Leon: Sunny
Choreographer Emanuel Gat joins producer, musician and performer Awir Leon to stage SUNNY, presented at the Montpellier Dance Festival 2016.
It’s a multi-level piece, in between a musical concert and a vibrant choreographic exploration.
An explosion of ideas, the piece combines new sounds with a stu...
Goddesses & Demonesses, Bianca Li & Maria Alexandrova
A meeting between two dance stars for a “mythological” creation. As in Antiquity, they confront each other, transform themselves into Goddesses or demonesses in order to change the destiny of mortals and spread power, joy and energy all around them. Are these two female dancers two sides of the same...
Marc Ducret, Metatonal
Self-taught guitarist Marc Ducret started playing professionally when he was only 17. His style is heavily influenced by rock and bebop and bursting with virtuosity. In 1986, he was invited by François Jeanneau to participate in the first National Jazz Orchestra, with which he gave more than 80 conc...
Mathilde aT the CafÉ de la Danse
Concert for the release of the album ""Je les aime tous", recorded in four days, as in jazz. Mathilde is joined by Jacky Terrasson, Stéphane Belmondo, her faithful Vladimir Médail, the soft and precise rhythm of Thomas Bramerie on bass and Philippe Maniez on drums, and a beautiful Brazilian guest, s...
Molada, the birth (Jasser Haj Youssef, Simone Kermes)
The vocal and instrumental works of Jasser Haj Youssef are unclassifiable. They are impregnated with the improvised style of the Arabic maqams that he learned in Monastir and Sousse (Tunisia) from his father as well as the freest forms of jazz – which he often plays on the viola d'amore . Between sc...
