Orelsan, Vianney, DJ Snake, Clara Luciani, Angèle, Juliette Armanet, M, or even Maxime Le Forestier will perform at Vieilles Charrues, the festival organizers announced on Monday, December 13. For this 30th edition, which will be held from July 14 to 17 in Carhaix, in Finistère, “we put the small dishes in the big ones”, rejoiced its director. Jerome Tréhorel on franceinfo.
franceinfo: After two years disrupted by the health crisis, a canceled 2020 edition and a reduced 2021 edition, is this the renaissance edition?
Jerome Tréhorel : It is a bit like that. We couldn’t wait to get back to the traditional form of the festival. Chance of the calendar means that we will be celebrating our 30th anniversary in 2022. We have put the small dishes in the big ones. And then, the first surprise was to announce all the programming in December, which we had never done. And it is to ensure, as usual, to offer the most beautiful musical photography with all trends and all styles, with favorites, nuggets, discoveries. And then French and international headliners in all styles, so that all audiences of the Vieilles Charrues meet there.
How will this festival be organized, in terms of sanitary rules?
For the moment, we have no information because it is in seven months. The certainty we have is the conviction and the desire to return to the traditional format. With the experience we have had over the past two years, of organizing a festival adapted to sanitary conditions, knowing that, potentially, the sanitary pass will be in effect until the end of July makes us say that it will not be There is no reason that there should be no additional constraint, apart from the control of the pass. We have learned to live with this control of the health pass, in this transitional period, and even today, football matches, etc. take place in full gauge. So next summer the situation will improve. We are in a somewhat delicate period, winter, as is traditionally the case with the various viruses that circulate. I want to be optimistic and we will organize everything, of course with observation and vigilance, with the experience we have acquired to organize an event in complete safety but in full measure to relive the festival Old Plows in its usual form.
Last summer, the gauge was limited to 5,000 spectators. Are you got back on your feet financially?
We knew that organizing an event on a reduced scale, economically, would not work. We had the commitment of the Minister of Culture, Roselyne Bachelot, to accompany us. The good news is that the commitments have been kept and that we have received sufficient aid to allow the festival to have no economic impact over these two years of health crisis, which is great, and allows us to to maintain this cultural diversity and this cultural exception so dear to France and to be able to envisage a revival, in the traditional form. You should know that the Vieilles Charrues is a 100% associative festival, without subsidy. We live thanks to the public and our partners. It is necessary to fill 90% of the gauge. It’s a little crazy bet, but at Vieilles Charrues, we like a little crazy bets. And we have a loyal audience, which cares a lot about the festival. And I hope that we can once again celebrate the moments of madness, of jubilation that we usually know.