If the Metronum’s primary purpose was to promote world music and emerging local artists, it is now a concert hall where big names in music are invited. Up-and-coming artists and international stars are taking part in the venue’s ten-year celebrations until the end of the year.
Published
Reading time: 2 min
:quality(50)/2024/06/04/metronum-665edecb5656c882540460.jpg)
By welcoming headliners for ten years, the Metronum has managed to carve out a place for itself in the Toulouse musical landscape. To celebrate its anniversary, the concert hall in the heart of the Borderouge district invited a pop rock group that it knows well: the Cats on Trees.
Coincidence or not, he too is celebrating the tenth anniversary of his hit Sirens Call which made it popular in France. An opus that he chose to replay with the Capitole chamber orchestra in this concert hall whose objective in 2024 is to obtain the SMAC label (Current music scene). “It gives us pleasure to play here because there is this proximity to the people, mixing the chamber orchestra of the Capitol which usually plays in atypical places like a basilica, bringing them back to us, to a concert hall. current music, I find the mix brilliant“, exclaims Nina Goern, the singer of the group.
:quality(50)/https%3A%2F%2Fassets.webservices.francetelevisions.fr%2Fv1%2Fassets%2Fimages%2F24%2F6d%2F1a%2F6afb5830-042e-46b3-8cee-481f0258fb0f.jpg)
The Toulouse Metronum celebrates its 10th anniversary
The Toulouse Métronum celebrates its 10th anniversary
(France 3 Midi-Pyrénées J. Galichet / E. Leroy / J. Eon / A. Nesterska)
But the Métronum continues to defend world music. The hall is now linked to the Rio Loco Festival, which this year will take the public on a musical odyssey from June 12 to 16. However, the Toulouse venue does not forget its primary vocation: to promote emerging and Toulouse artists.
Like Dinaa who saw his song Lisa surpass one million listens on streaming platforms, marking the start of a promising career. This is the tenth time that the very young artist is preparing to go on stage. “Like any self-respecting Toulouse resident, I knew the Métronum. Having big venues that take the risk of taking emerging artists like me to put them with big headliners, international artists, I think that’s fair, it’s incredible.” explains the young artist.
A key player in the local scene, the Métronum has 600 seats, two concert halls, rehearsal spaces available to artists in residence but also support systems in the heart of the Borderouge district, ten minutes by metro from the center -city.
“Metronum has a well-identified place but I still find it perhaps insufficiently recognized and this is the challenge of our project for the coming years, is that the inhabitants of the neighborhood can make this room their own.”says Fabien Lhérisson, the Director of the Métronum. To build a community of people who love and want to defend it, the Metronum plans to organize open stages every two months and participatory cultural education workshops but also a free concert every semester. Added to this is a membership card which allows you to have reduced prices on concerts.
Throughout 2024, the Metronum is celebrating its ten years of existence with a series of ten exceptional concerts. After the Cuban Roberto Fonseca and the German musician Patrice last February and the Malian Fatoumata Diawara in March, other international stars are expected for the celebrations like Ayo, revealed in France with the hit Down on my knees will perform on stage next Saturday, September 21, or the British group Tindersticks will give a concert outside the walls, on November 16, at the Halle aux Grains.
Le Metronum 2, Madame de Mondonville roundabout, 31200 Toulouse