Singing, dancing, singing to dance: the second edition of FestiWaouh promises to heat up the floor on June 15 and 16 in Royère-de-Vassivière.
This is the story of a singing course that turned into a small festival. “There had to be a name,” smiles Alexis Lecointe. I said to myself: “We have wow singing, we have wow dancing, it’s wow, so it’s going to be FestiWouh”. And it stayed! » After a notable premiere in 2023, the festival of polyphonic dance songs returns on June 15 and 16 to Royère-de-Vassivière giving pride of place to dance songs.
For this second edition, the round and the note will be led among others by Perrine Aterianus, Carine Fourcade and Philippe Duval, trio of the late La Jupette barbue who ignited, a few years ago, the floor of the Grand bal de l’Europe, in Gennetines (Allier).
“I had always wanted to see them on stage except that in the meantime, the group disbanded,” remembers Alexis Lecointe. When we had the idea of doing this festival, this was the first band that came to mind so I contacted them and asked them if they could get back together just for our festival? And they said ok! » One last dance for the road given to FestiWaouh, you can’t miss it.
The FestiWouh to sing and dance
In the repertoire of his vocal ball, “traditional songs in French, most of them from Brittany, Berry, Vendée which we have rearranged in a slightly contemporary taste, which means that it is accessible even to people who are not from the traditional world,” explains Carine Fourcade. No instruments, just the voices of the three singers with which they play happily.
“The voice can be very rhythmic. We can do a bass line, we can do the melody, we can do what we call counter-vocals or imitate a guitar! We really have fun with the vocal material,”
Carine Fourcade (The Bearded Skirt)
All three draw inspiration from their respective worlds, whether African polyphonic songs or jazz. “We brought our touch and our modernity to these traditional songs”, with the desire to make everyone dance.
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A chorus of residents
The artist will also be on stage with En Place, another project alongside his two friends and a beatbox. “It’s a vocal dance with beatboxing. So there, for the rhythmic side, we are completely there! », smiles Carine Fourcade. The group also organizes a singing workshop before the Sunday ball.
“We are going to form a choir of residents, transmit our songs to them, they will come and sing on stage with us and make people dance. The last time we did it, there were 100 of us on stage. These are moments of joy and intense emotion. There were people in the audience who cried, it was pretty incredible! »
Carine Fourcade (The Bearded Skirt)
Other groups will also be there, including the (and local) vocal trio Pülsa, Illune and Duo Eva. Pülsa is “one guy and two girls”, smiles Alexis Lecointe, who is part of this trio. “We compose our own music, lyrics and arrangements, we also take some traditional things that we rearrange a lot. » Beatboxing still invites itself, far from the trad world but who cares, “we make a sort of bridge between all that, trad, the less trad, polyphonic singing,” smiles Alexis Lecointe. There is poetry, there is commitment, dynamism”, everything you need to make people tingle without preconceptions.
“Some people think that in dance singing, the rhythm is not strong enough, that it does not move enough. We want to break that. That’s why we add a little beatbox, percussion, a few instruments, guitar, jaw harp… It’s modern, it pulses… hence Pülsa! »
Alexis Lecointe (Co-organizer of FestiWaouh and member of Pülsa)
You will also have to take into account the looper
the mandolin, the melodica and the voice of Artiti, project of the neo trad musician Tristan Le Breton, cantor of the loop ball!
This instrument allows you to record sounds and then play them back in a loop.Julie Ho Hoa
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