Let’s go for the 28th edition of the Grand Soufflet in Rennes. Between traditional music and world music, the festival which highlights the accordion continues with more than fifty concerts until Saturday October 14 in Rennes and throughout Ille-et-Vilaine.
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The Grand Soufflet Festival in Rennes (France 3)
Rock, swing, traditional or electro music, all the popular music of the world can be found in more than 40 municipalities in Ille et Vilaine. Let’s go 28e festival edition The Great Bellows with until October 14, 2023 around forty artistic training courses expected in more than sixty locations in the department. Created to highlight the accordion and other bandoneons, this festival facilitates the meeting between different cultures and opens up to many other instruments. The singer, accordionist and percussionist Charlotte Espieussas of Occitan origin is the guest of honor of the festival because this year, women are in the spotlight.
And precisely, for the opening evening, it was the Poitevin group Ma Petite, a mixture of folk dancing and contemporary musical creation which presented songs on stage which speak of women. Perrin drew on the traditional repertoire to make the audience dance. Supported by a band of brass instruments, the texts of their latest album “Le moulin des roses” have crossed the ages. “We decided to work on songs that talk about women, women who are free and want to stay that way but also women who experience more dramatic things.” explains singer Perrine Vignault.
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Music as a journey
The Festival des Grands Soufflets is a cultural event, in the colors of world music. The groups sometimes come from very far away, like the trio of barbarian violins, originally from Mongolia. They too borrow their irresistible Afro-Balkan-Mongol flights from the past. “We have wonderful traditional music in Mongolia. The silent melodies are amazing, because the music comes from nature and crossed with traditional Bulgarian music, it creates something new and it’s very beautiful” explains Enkhjargal DANDARVAANCHIG, one of the three musicians in the group.
From Poitou to the plains of Mongolia, escape and energy were indeed there for this first evening of the Grand Soufflet which continues until October 14.
The Grand Soufflet Festival, Thabor park, 35000 Rennes
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