Gypsy, soul, groove or even rockabilly: this summer, the off of the Jazz à Sète festival mixes rhythms and music all around the Thau basin.
The Jazz à Sète festival is of course Chris Isaak, Thomas de Pourquery and Scary Pockets at the Théâtre de la Mer. But it is also a whole series of concerts, some of which are free, which will get the whole Thau basin moving . The “off” as we usually call it, takes place this year at the Mas Neuf estate, at the Valmagne Abbey, at the François-Mitterrand media library in Sète, outdoors in Marseillan or even in Balaruc-les- Baths.
“Human Flow” in Vic-La-Gardiole
Among the plethora of proposals we will perhaps remember the concert of Alfio Origlio with Fleur Worku, Noé Reine, Zaza Desiderio. The young Franco-Ethiopian singer and violinist brings together all these voices around the “Human Flow” project, which revisits a repertoire of pop songs while mixing it with compositions by Alfio Orglio. The event will be held in Vic-la-Gardiole, at the Mas Neuf estate on Wednesday June 26 from 9 p.m.
At the roots of gypsy
On Friday June 28, Antoine Boyer and Yeore Kim will perform in the setting of Valmagne Abbey, in Villeveyrac. The young prodigy and multi-instrumentalist Antoine Boyer serves up virtuoso jazz that returns to the roots of gypsy, Mandino Reinhardt and Francis Alfred Moerman. In a free concert at the François-Mitterrand media library in Sète on Wednesday July 3, Nicolas Grosso Trio will play at home. The Sétois, who went to the school of Jean Guibal on rue Montmorency, is a genius guitarist who happily draws on all repertoires and all techniques, from Django pumps to American picking.
Soul on the banks of the Canal du Midi
The singer Mess Drey will also be in a free concert, but in Marseillan, on the banks of the Canal du Midi, on Saturday July 6. Author, composer and performer of Haitian origin, the young woman campaigns for an “open soul”, in which funk, hip-hop, reggae and gospel joyfully hybridize in a musical mix that is both intimate and powerful.
