Durations
HANDSOME JACK
We've fallen in love with this US trio from Lockport NY, who take us back to the 70s in both sound and look. Fat blues reminiscent of Creedence Clearwater Revival and pure boogie/soul rock'roll delighted the festival audience.
Handsome Jack's music takes us on a truck ride across the Great Plains...
Henrik FREISCHLADER
Singer, songwriter, producer and blues-rock guitarist of the highest order, Henrik Freischlader leaves no one indifferent thanks to his impressive guitar playing.
Influenced by greats such as Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan and BB King, his own style is always recognizable. Henrik ...
HERCULINE BARBIN (Festival d’Avignon 2024)
In 1868 in Paris, a man took his own life, leaving behind a set of memoirs. Designated female at birth, Herculine Adélaïde Barbin changed sex and became Abel. Her passionate pen recounts the torments and emotions of a young girl, and ends with the bitter despair of a man. In 1978, Michel Foucault p...
HUUSH (Festival Grandes Marées 2024)
These three musicians from Rennes decided to make a lot of noise with this new electro rock project, devised as a declaration of love to partying and letting go. The drums hit hard, the guitar oscillates between technoid arpeggios and saturated sound, while the synthetic bass supports the powerful b...
I’m writing to you…
A light-hearted documentary which takes a humorous look at written language in our tumultuous society: has this form of expression completely disappeared or just mutated? Do these changes have an impact on our attitudes and behaviour? To find out, we hear from linguists, a public letter writer and s...
Izieu’s children deportation: Never Forgiven or Forgotten
Through sheer determination, Sabine Zlatin helped to publicise the story of the roundup of the children of Izieu in April 1944 and to make it part of the history of France.
In July 1933, a 27-year-old woman tried to kill herself with a revolver on Boulevard du Montparnasse in Paris. Who was she?...
JUSTINA LEE BROWN – Leman Blues Festival
Justina Lee Brown, vocals
Nic Nierdermann, guitar
Thoam Wettstein, bass
Christof Jaussi, drums
Angelo Signore, keyboards
David Stauffacher, percussion
Nigerian singer-songwriter Justina Lee Brown expresses in her lyrics the reality of her life, the struggle...
Kumbia Boruka
For almost 10 years now, Kumbia Boruka has been rocking the world's sound, honoring the ancestral queen of Afro-Caribbean rhythms, cumbia, every time. Kumbia Boruka is made up of 8 musicians, and after more than 300 concerts on European stages, the feeling is always the same: wherever Kumbia Boruka ...
