World music
The high road to Kilkenny – Early Music from Ireland
Perfomance of The Musicians of Saint-Julien in Celtic lands, “The high road to Kilkenny” combines refined, “highbrow” pieces along with an entertaining repertoire of songs in Gælic and dances from the Irish Baroque.
Ancient Celtic music carries great mystery. Wherever you look at it, i...
URBAN VOICES: The Celtic Way
For the 7th edition of Urban Voices, the audience in Nantes was invited to join the musicians and choristers along the Celtic way.
Ireland was in the spotlight with its Gaelic melodies and its tradition of music and song from the land of enchanted myths and legends.
As usual, the artists in re...
Biguine – Inheritance
Martinican musical history is largely marked by colonisation, slavery, the wars of influence between the old European colonial empires and the eruption of the Montagne Pelée in 1902.
The development of its music, like its population, has followed a historical evolution. Martinique music has its orig...
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...
Omar Sosa & Jacques Schwarz-Bart: CrÉole Spirit
Omar Sosa and Jacques Schwarz-Bart have been separately flying the flag of Afro-Caribbean jazz high around the world for the last 10 years.
Today, the pianist Omar Sosa is the undisputed leader of a Cuban jazz inspired by the spiritual traditions of Santeria, the African belief system dating back t...
Sirba Octet : Tanz !
This remarkable ensemble, mid-way between classical and Klezmer music, revives the musical traditions of Eastern Europe by rearranging it according to the rules of classical music. Unique arrangements for eight exceptional musicians from the Orchestre de Paris, who play with dazzling interpretive fr...
Tony Chasseur at La Cigale in Paris
For more than 30 years, Tony has been one of the few voices to make a lasting mark in all that’s new in contemporary West Indian music.
The collaborations, high-profile partnerships and hits punctuating his career (Malavoi, Kassav, Le Grand Naughty Zouk, etc.) are too numerous to mention
The concer...
Youssou N’Dour at the Bataclan
After a few years in politics, Youssou N’Dour celebrates his comeback on the mythical stage of the Bataclan. A regular visitor of the parisian theater, the mbalax legend has presented his new album afrika rekk (africa, period). In the company of many guests, like Angelique Kidjo, he interprets his a...
ALPHA BLONDY at La Cigale
A 30 year career, more than 15 albums, concerts you can’t count, Alpha Blondy is without any doubt the most popular reggae star since the death of Bob Marley.
An african music legend, with 2.8 millions fans on social medias. From Kingston to Jerusalem, his universal message concerns all those who d...
