Organized in partnership with 13 municipalities and associated structures, the Joly Jazz festival returns with its share of surprises, musical encounters and adventurous walks through the Sambre-Avesnois. DIYed by Bougez Rock since 2018, the event brings together several thousand spectators each year over ten days.
This year, the association invites you from July 5 to 14 to discover 23 artists and groups in very different aesthetics and configurations. From jazz, to swing, rock, soul or mambo, there will be something for everyone! Access to the various festival sites is free. The principle is simple: at the entrance to the site, you can donate according to your means, your conscience or your immeasurable desire to support the festival.
Programme :
5 juillet – 20h / Maubeuge – courtyard of the Henri Lafitte cultural center
JUKE VOX (pop & rock) + CLAIR (pop) + ARAPONGA (mambo lyrique)
The JUKE VOX choristers open the festival with a selection of pop and rock songs arranged by the artist Chantāl and taken from the repertoires of the Beatles, Nirvana, Jean-Pierre Madère, Clara Luciani and many others… performed by Nico and Tom, respectively on guitar and drums, the instrumental arrangements electrify this unusual vocal ensemble that creates surprises wherever it performs.
CLAIR is a former backing singer-dancer for Philippe Katerine. When she sings, it’s joy, positive vibes and holidays in Saint-Gilles Croix de Vie. CLAIR is a pop sound with formidable melodies and slightly offbeat lyrics, compositions served on a platter by the man with the Banana, fresh and rather tangy music.
ARAPONGA: When an eccentric lyrical singer meets a group of musicians driven by Latin American culture, we get a totally unexpected and unclassifiable musical style: Lyrical mambo!
July 6 – 6 p.m. Jeumont – Digital station
QUIET TIME – “Trafic” film concert by Jacques Tati
Hosted several times in creative residency at the Gare Numérique in 2023, the Lille trio performs the fruit of several months of work: An original soundtrack, with pop accents tinged with electro, which accompanies one of the masterpieces of the 7th French art of the early 70s: the film TRAFIC by Jacques Tati.
July 6 – 8:30 p.m. / Ferrière-la-Petite – Garden of the Pottery Museum
PANAME RÉTRO (swing jazz) + ATCHARAV (klezmer)
PANAME RÉTRO covers the most beautiful melodies of French song, with humor, swing and poetry! This singing tour will delight lovers of beautiful texts and legendary standards. The duo takes you on a musical journey through the successes of Nougaro, Aznavour, Boris Vian…but also Olivia Ruiz, Vanessa Paradis, Rita Mitsouko, Matthieu Chedid and even Johnny!
ATCHARAV, a gypsy swing trio, led by Nono (Van Lancker), invites you to travel to an imaginary country without borders. Behind the swing guitar, the indomitable saxophone and the chromatic accordion hide the kingpins and the soul of Tire-Laine. They are masters in the art of accommodating gypsy swing, musette and klezmer in the blink of an eye. Atcharav takes you on the crossroads between Eastern Europe and Brooklyn, so “latcho drom”! (Good road !)
July 7 – 12:30 p.m. / Assevent – Towpath, rue du Général De Gaulle
THE MISGUIDED BIRDS (Tribute to G. Brassens)
Clémence, lulled and passionate about the writing of Georges Brassens, found the jazz swing guitars and double bass ideal to accompany her in this joyous and nostalgic singing tour at the same time.
July 7 – 4:30 p.m. / Sars-Poteries – le Musverre
ZWAZO (Creole fanfare) + DEUX POILS ET IMBERBE (folk)
The ZWAZO fanfare (photo above) is a festive and danceable compendium of Creole music that will take you from the Caribbean islands to the Indian Ocean. Your feet are stamping, your head is lightening, your heart is racing, the rhythms are tearing you off the ground and making you grow wings? Zwazo is not far away.
DEUX POILS ET IMBERBE is a banjo, an accordion and a guitar that announce the departure for a folk journey from Hauts-de-France to the four corners of the world!
7 juillet – 20h / Glageon – Town Hall
LITTLE LEGS (boogie, blues) + THE CRAPPY COYOTES (blues, rockabilly)
LITTLE LEGS (pictured opposite) is a one-man-blues-band, which behind amazing instruments made exclusively using recycled elements, mixes compositions with catchy riffs and reinterpretations of traditional blues and old-time music. The mood is resolutely “Lo-fi” and raspy as desired.
THE CRAPPY COYOTES do not come from Alabama, Kentucky and even less from Tennessee but from Picardy! The quartet offers a danceable and wild journey, mixing compositions inspired by the golden age of rock’n’roll and reinterpretations of the great standards in the pure tradition of the 50’s.
10 juillet – 20h / Sains-du-Nord – Lamborelle Park, rue Jean-Baptiste Lebas
DARLING BUDS OF MAY (folk, blues) + SAXTOY (rock, jazz)
Their obsession with the blues and its history led the duo DARLING BUDS OF MAY to offer a minimalist set based on a guitar, two voices and some percussion. Together, he and she continue to bring to life the haunting laments of sensitive blues, between folk ballads and cheerful electric gospels.
SAXTOY is a real UFO (“s” for sonorous). On board, the crew is composed of 5 saxophonists, a bassist and a drummer who rub shoulders with hyperesp-jazz. This dazzling vibrating saucer is propelled by roaring instrumental compositions that travel between the rock, jazz and electro galaxies, not far from the MON HOOCH satellite and the SNARKY PUPPY constellation.
11 juillet – 20h / Recquignies – Town hall square
GRAFFITI FISH (pop) + I LOVE YOU (musique des balkans)
Coming from a dream, GRAFFITI FISH was born in 2017 in the form of a Chinese veil: a small biological element evolving in a complex urban universe. At the crossroads of Bon Iver and St. Vincent, Graffiti Fish propagates a simple philosophy: peace, folk & feng shui! In a duo version especially for Joly Jazz.
KOCHAM CIE emerged at the initiative of Pierre Polvèche, like a true declaration of love! An accordion virtuoso, Pierre composes all the music in the repertoire: Original music oriented towards the Balkans, combining improvised elements borrowed from classical music and jazz.
July 12 – 4 p.m. / Eppe-Sauvage – Val Joly
HAMADA (psychedelic rock) + PHOEBE (jazz)
Recent training, partly from The Psychotic Sidewinters et The Groundswell MotionHAMADA (photo opposite) offers sunny psychedelic sounds from the contemporary Californian psyche scene and Turkish folk melodies from the 70s.
In the light of Hiatus Kaiyote, Tom Misch or Rohey, PHOEBE begins to paint a new face of Neo Soul Jazz with her own colors. An in-depth exploration of sound and textures that also leaves an important place for improvisation. Rendezvous with a crystalline voice on aerial compositions.
12 juillet – 20h / Bavay – Louvignies square
TI MOON (soul, jazz) + AFRO WILD ZOMBIES (afrobeat)
Moon’s universe oscillates between jazz and pop. Accompanied by the keyboardist saxophonist Korbo, she draws her inspiration from the melancholic melodies of Billie Holiday, Portishead and Jay-Jay Johanson that rocked her childhood. Her gravelly tone and captivating voice give her languid music the effect of a sweet cosmic journey. A soulful, singular style to discover.
Nourished by Afrobeat, the musicians of AFRO WILD ZOMBIES (photo opposite) follow in the footsteps of Fela Kuti and weave their repertoire into a patchwork of jazz, funk and black music. They are more awful than Afro, hence the “zombies”. For the “wild” on the other hand, we are right! A wild singer, sharp brass riffs, carried by an irresistible rhythm…
13 juillet – 20h / Trélon – Glass workshop-museum – Écomusée de l’Avesnois
VERB (jazz) + SWINGING GENTLEMEN (jazz manouche)
Barely two years old, and already a crazy energy that sweeps everything in its path. Last summer, VERB won the Jazz à Vienne springboard and recorded its first album “Symbiose” in the process. With Afrojazz, swing, and sometimes touches of free influences, the VERB trio performs its own compositions on stage in a virtuoso, lively and nuanced dialogue, and with impeccable technique.
SWINGING GENTLEMEN is a unique group. With its repertoire based on Django Reinhardt’s gypsy jazz, French chanson and some jazz standards, the quintet has a unique ability to blend elements of traditional jazz with modern elements, creating an original sound that is both accessible and sophisticated.
July 14 – 7 p.m. Preux-au-Bois – Pond, village center
TIRE-LAINE JAZZ QUARTET (jazz)
The Quartet Jazz du Tire-Laine covers the greatest standards of American Jazz. The blue note is the very essence of jazz, but with this quartet of distinguished professionals we are more in the register of the musical rainbow: that of the pioneers of American jazz from the 1940s to the 1960s with the repertoire of Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington and even Sony Rollins. Find the atmosphere of the smoky clubs of Harlem or Greenwich Village and relive the golden age of jazz!
July 14 – 9 p.m. / Landrecies – Town hall square
BIOBAL (Revisited tube machine)
What if Fela Kuti sang like Charles Trenet? What if Tino Rossi sang like Stromae? What if a Michael Jackson hit was danced in foxtrot mode? As you can see, BioBal revisits the most famous hits and standards of world sound, mixing arrangements from yesterday and today. Everyone on the dance floor for this unusual finale!
GENERAL INFORMATION
Every day, the sites open 1 hour before the first group passes. You have the opportunity to have a snack on site thanks to the snacks offered by the members of the association (slices, falafels, barbecue, etc.).
In Assevent on July 7th, lunchtime is picnic-music… Bring your bowls, but not your drinks! Metal cutlery will not be accepted either.
