Because you have to know how to inform yourself, debate and fight on good waves, and since, a stone’s throw from a hypothetical village of die-hard Gauls, everything always ends in music, the Fête de l’Humanité Normandie has concocted for this 2024 edition a program as festive as it is political.
Starting with a Saturday under the auspices of Ivorian star Tiken Jah Fakoly, ambassador of African reggae on tour with his latest album in his bag, an anthology of covers in acoustic version of his greatest hits. “Reggae always takes its true place in places where there is a need for revival,” the singer with a strong conscience recently confided to us.
The praises of crossbreeding and the virtues of hope
This weekend, Rouen and its suburbs will be the perfect host to resonate the heady rhythms of Jamaica and its wake-up calls. After Fakoly, it’s time for Broussaï, who could be said to be his little brothers, also drawing on reggae as a source of revolt. The group, which has been performing on stage for twenty years, has strived to sing the praises of crossbreeding and the virtues of hope. In solidarity, it is the name of their latest album which continues to sound the alarm against imperialism and calls for the building of a world free of racism and domination.
The day will once again welcome Babylon Circus, a twirling stage group with more than 1,500 concerts which performs musette rap or java ska impregnated with song lyrics, as evidenced once again by their latest album, the beautiful star. It will finally be the turn of Hasta Siempre, a Norman group with an apt name which does not refuse any style as long as it can share with its audience its good humor and its corrosive and always political humor. On Sunday, the public will be able to take possession of the Allain Leprest stage, which will see the duos Riv’gauche, Thyself, wild cover groups succeed one another to close the Festival in style. Since you also have to know how to end a party…
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