World music
GILBERTO GIL: A God in his Garden
With his world tour cancelled due to COVID, Gilberto Gil invites us to an acoustic concert in the garden of his residence in Araras, where he and his family are spending lockdown. He is accompanied by his two sons, Bem and Jose, his daughter Nara and her 11-year-old granddaughter Flor, whose big voi...
FOTOS Music Band
FOTOS is an original work created on the initiative of singer Albert Magister around a musical meander between France and Brazil.
On stage: a meeting of 10 exceptionally talented musicians and the sumptuous voices of Isadora Melo (Recife), Vanessa Melo (Salvador de Bahia) and Albert Magister (Nantes...
Kaladjula Band
When the griot Naïny Diabaté decided to give Malian women a voice, the result was the Kaladjula Band, the first female instrumental ensemble in Mali.
Here, women aren’t just singers but in full possession of the instruments usually reserved for men.
Naïny Diabaté is now one of the most famous sing...
L’Ensemble Constantinople & Ablaye Cissoko : TraversÉes
From Mandinka sagas to Persian court music!
A conversation between the Senegalese kora of Ablaye Cissoko and the setar (long-necked Iranian lute) of Kiya Tabassian, the viola da gamba played by Pierre-Yves Martel and Patrick Graham’s percussion. The compositions reflect the deep complicity that has...
La Yegros at La Cigale, Paris
La Yegros, the Argentine diva queen of Nu Cumbia, is back in Paris to present her new album "Suelta", produced by the legendary Argentine producer King Coya (musical director and composer of Fuerza Bruta and De La Guarda).
Promising a truly incredible concert, the singer loosens up the rustiest bodi...
Leïla Martial : Baa box
Interstellar Esperanto performed by a vocal acrobat!
Leïla Martial has a voice channelling boundless creativity, an onomatopoeic wellspring that mutates and changes to adapt to every musical style.
"Baabel" takes us from jazz shot through with electronic effects to dynamically structured rock riff...
MANU DIBANGO: “Safari Symphonique” at the Grand Rex
MANU DIBANGO, one of our greatest musician and songwriter, developed a musical style fusing jazz, funk, and traditional Cameroonian music. Appointed a UNESCO Artist for Peace, he died of Covid-19 on 24 March 2020. Throughout his 60-year career, Manu Dibango has always sought to break down the bounda...
Saeid Shanbehzadeh : Djombessa
Traditional Afro-Iranian songs and dances.
The renowned southern Iranian musician and dancer Saeid Shanbehzadeh creates a colourful party atmosphere, revealing the history of the Afro-Iranians who have shaped the musical culture of this region. Known as "Bandari music and dance", it sprang from the...
APATRIDE: André Manoukian at the Trianon
André Manoukian, songwriter-composer of Armenian descent, reconnects with his oriental roots.
Between Vienna and Samarkand, in search of flashes of melancholy, in this concert he rediscovers the soul of his ancestors.
In his new album, "Apatride ", he explores new sound t...
Between Vienna and Samarkand, in search of flashes of melancholy, in this concert he rediscovers the soul of his ancestors.
In his new album, "Apatride ", he explores new sound t...
EZZA –Grésiblues Festival
The new wave of Tuareg music!
Standing out from their illustrious predecessors, the EZZA trio transforms Tuareg music and leads it off the beaten track, uncompromisingly combining rock, blues, Tuareg songs, rhythmic trances and relentless groove.
Travelling from Agadez in Azawad to the rest of the w...
