the essential
For its 24th edition, the Détours de chant festival celebrates female voices. More than forty concerts will take place from January 24 to February 8 in nineteen venues in Toulouse and the surrounding area. French song is in tune with world music.
Nach, Claire Diterzi, Carmen Maria Vega, Oriane Lacaille, Leila Huissoud, Lolita Delmonteil, Bertille, Claire Gimatt, Mymytchell, Lise Martin, Jansi… they are all on the bill for the 24th edition of the Détours de chant festival which has chosen to highlight the diversity of female voices, from January 24 to February 8, when a woman takes the helm of the festival.
“After years of volunteering and commitment to the service of French-speaking song and numerous festivals, nothing is more exciting for me than to take over from Philippe Pagès as coordinator of the Détours de Chant festival,” rejoices Charlotte Veyssiere. “I thank him, as well as the entire team, the partners, the volunteers, and you festival-goers for the trust placed in me.”
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The essentials
Among the anticipated concerts of this new edition, Nach makes his return to the stage of greater Toulouse at the Bascala in Bruguières on January 31. Regenerated after a stay in the Moroccan Sahara, the youngest Chedid has a new look, in the delicate intimacy of a piano-voice. Since her debut in 2015, Anna Chedid has been laying her foundations as a singer-songwriter within a large bohemian family – Andrée, the poet grandmother, father Louis and brother Matthieu, musicians with whom she has already come to sing at the Zenith. His fourth album, “Peau nouvelle”, released last year, further asserts his personal artistic touch. Concocted in the solitude of the Moroccan Sahara and the Cévennes mountains, Nach entirely wrote, arranged and produced it.
Another expected return after notable appearances at Bikini and Odyssud, Claire Diterzi will sing in a symphony on January 25 and 26. In this show, she distills “selected pieces” from her repertoire, arranged by Sylvain Griotto in orchestral version, accompanied by the Tournefeuille Symphony Orchestra conducted by Claude Puysségur.
A Reunion also hoped for with Carmen Maria Vega, on February 5 at the Henri Desbals cultural center. In this show, the exceptional voice of Carmen Maria Vega celebrates both femininity and the freedom to be oneself, opening the floodgates to a unique experience, that of “Carmen Ultra”. In duo with the musician Antoine Rault (Lescop, Forver Pavot, Vox Low), bassist, guitarist, arranger and geek magician of machines, she allows herself everything.
The discoveries
Détour de chants will allow you to discover voices little known in Toulouse but which resonate throughout the world. Oriane Lacaille, from a great Reunion musical lineage, invites you on a journey between traditions and modernity, carrying a vibrant message about roots and transmission. She will perform at the Espace Jacques Brel in Castanet-Tolosan on February 7.
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Also worth discovering is Bertille and her romantic electro-pop music in French, in which machines and synthesizers give pride of place to the violin, her favorite instrument, and the voice. February 4 and 5 at the Bijou.
New encounters where emergence will also have its place, in particular, with the Coups de pushes set, on February 1, at the Bijou. The opportunity to discover Sandra Dallet, Jansi, Anne-Lise Rocha but also LMA and Bravo Benoît.
The program will not be exclusively female because several local artists like Magyd Cherfi, on February 8 at the Théâtre des Mazades, Bruno Ruiz, on February 1 at the Théâtre du Pavé, but also elsewhere with Iaross, on January 28 and 29 at the Bijou, Vaslo, on February 7 at the Molière theater in Launaguet, are on the bill for Détours de chant.
