The festival season is not over. The proof is with the Groove d’Automne Festival, the first edition of which takes place this weekend in Trévoux in Ain. On the program, headliners like Vaudou Game and 100% regional groups.
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It takes a certain courage to launch a new music festival when the offer is already plentiful, at least for the summer season. Hence the (good) idea of the organizers of the Groove d’Automne Festival to launch their event from September 22 to 24 in Trévoux in Ain (about thirty minutes from Lyon), September 23 being the date of the autumnal equinox. “We said to ourselves that to enter this period which on paper is a little gloomy, we will try to make it groove!“, explains Martin Tayol, the creator of the festival. This music enthusiast, guitarist since the age of 9 in a Lyon group (Les Polyphenols), took two years to set up this project.
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The principle of the festival is as follows: a big paying stage under a big top with artists renowned on the national scene (Vaudou Game, Black Lilys, Malted Milk, or even the French guitarist, vsofounder of the group FFF, Yarol Poupaud...) and an free regional scene – with 100% local groups.
No question of limiting yourself to jazz, rock or blues. The poster is intended to be eclectic. Because the person who manages to give an exact definition of groove is very clever, the word now being used in all sauces. You just have to search the web to see that the answer to the question “What is groove?” generates pages of explanations. In English, groove literally means dig a furrow. This notion of land, of something anchored in the ground, is important. She assumes that the body is there and that we are going to look for what is happening inside. The definition given by Martin Tayrol goes in this direction. For him the groove, “it’s the essence of music that makes you want to move, that gives vibrations, that provides something physical.”
There are still a few hours left to feel this “something physical”. THE Groove d’Automne Festival ends this Sunday, September 24 with 5 free concerts from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., to be found in the Lower Port of Trévoux.