With summer returning, it is also the return of Agen Village. This year, from July 5 to August 16, the town of Agen becomes, for one evening a week, a village square in the South-West where everyone meets around local products and in conviviality. Attracting more than 2,000 people over all dates, around 300 per evening, the Agen Village formula has been popular for nine years. “It’s been a well-identified success for 9 years,” smiles Clémence Brandolin-Robert who announced this Monday, accompanied by Thomas Leterme, project manager with the Mouvement Jeunesse Monte le Son (MJMLS) association which participates in a major part of the organization, the program of this new edition. Like every edition, the Agenais (or not) will find the 7 key dates of the Agenais summer. Whether you like rock, Latin dance, cinema, shows, alone, with family or friends, there will definitely be a date in Agen Village that will make you happy. “What’s great is that all the merchants are playing the game, from rue Voltaire to Place Jasmin, wherever the evenings are going to be held the merchants are on full blast,” congratulate Clémence Brandolin-Robert and Thomas. The term. “As from the beginning, it is the young people of MJMLS who are at the heart of the project and supported by the association and the city,” explains the project manager.
A program for going out with friends or family
For each Agen Village date, an identity. The calendar will be launched with the traditional gourmet market on July 7. Taking place on rue Parmentier and place Jean-Baptiste Durand, the traders of the covered market will offer you their homemade recipes with local products, diversified and for everyone. To liven up this first market, Audrey Alyx, accompanied by her ukulele, highlights female artists of yesterday and today through her repertoire. It is in a pop, folk, reggae or even song coating that you will have the opportunity to discover his repertoire, enhanced with personal compositions! A flourishing universe, rich in varied musical influences! She will be followed by The Sandy Smoke, a Funk, Hip-Hop and Rock group specializing in the performance of mash-ups (transformed popular songs). A concentrate of communicative energy mixing new things, memories and rediscoveries, enough to get all generations dancing!
Special feature this year, the second date of Agen Village will not celebrate the national holiday but rather the passage of the Tour de France on the town hall square on July 13. On the 19th, the spotlight will be on a house label, well known in particular in Astaffort, with carte blanche given to Baboo Music, label of Aurélie Cabrel and Esther Dehut. Last date of July, that of Agen Village goes to rock and will be held at Place Esquirol. Another successful date, that of the open-air cinema, August 4, which will be held this year on Place Esquirol to see or re-watch Asterix and Obelix – Mission Cleopatra.
