Chédigny’s Festival de Bouche et de Blues brings Touraine dishes together with live blues performances. Rillettes, goat’s cheese and beuchelle tourangelle are among roughly forty culinary offerings from which meals can be assembled. Food stalls and concerts share the village setting, putting the regional cooking programme alongside its musical bill.
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Piano Saltimbanque in Verdigny: Elegant Concert
Francis Clup and Sophie Parel perform Piano Saltimbanque in Verdigny. The concert belongs to the Cher cultural season Sur les pas de George Sand. It forms part of the writer’s commemoration, bringing a piano performance to the village within a wider programme connecting music and Sand’s place in Berry’s cultural life.
Concert in Gargilesse-Dampierre: Tribute to George Sand
Mezzo-soprano Camille-Taos Arbouz and harpist Alexander Boldachev perform Pauline, Frédéric et les autres… at Gargilesse’s summer festival. Chopin, Tchaikovsky and Schumann feature in the programme. The concert accompanies the George Sand commemoration and the festival’s attention to women artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Choir Workshop in Neuvy-Saint-Sépulchre: Music Exploration
Gwennaëlle Lemaire-Debarnot leads a choral workshop for Les Milliaires in Neuvy-Saint-Sépulchre. The theme Alliances spans repertoire from the Middle Ages to the present, selected with the conductor. Group teaching and sectional work lead towards a final concert, alongside the festival’s programme in George Sand country.
Festival Pierres qui chantent in Pouligny-Notre-Dame: Folk &
Duo Guidat/Mooken and Duo Bonnin/Campin perform at the church in Pouligny-Notre-Dame for Pierres qui chantent en Vallée Noire. Guitar and percussion move between flamenco, jazz and Celtic influences in the first duo’s programme. The second draws on mazurkas, bourrées and waltzes associated with folk balls, within the festival’s circuit of local churches.
De Londres à Edimbourg in Plaimpied-Givaudins: Music Duo
La Rêveuse brings De Londres à Edimbourg to Plaimpied-Givaudins in collaboration with Noirlac. Florence Bolton and Benjamin Perrot perform English music from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Their programme follows exchanges between traditional and composed repertories as part of the Nouvelles Traversées festival’s wider activity.
Leisure Park Inauguration in Chemillé-sur-Indrois: Festive V
The leisure park opening at Chemillé-sur-Indrois brings local producers to the lakeside. Ça Trompe Énormément provides live music alongside the market. A visit introduces the leisure park and the development work around the lake, combining an account of the changes to the site with food stalls and an outdoor public gathering.
Festival Les Chatoyantes in Cepoy: Local Community & Arts
Les Chatoyantes brings music and performance to Château de Cepoy near Montargis. Pop, house, jazz, rock, drum and bass, reggae and techno share the bill with mapping, dance, circus and magic. Workshops and community activities accompany this eco-citizen gathering organised around the Gâtinais Libre community.
Un soir d’été in Villesavin: Evening of Music
Les Amis de Villesavin organise Un soir d’été in the château park at Tour-en-Sologne. Local producers prepare food for a meal in the grounds, with picnicking also possible. The band Apple Juice performs Beatles songs, placing the live concert alongside a gathering around local food and the Villesavin estate.
George Sand Show in Nohant: Puppet Performance
George Sans S brings the work and personality of George Sand to the stage through the distinctive visual theatre of Les Anges au Plafond. Puppets, signed song and live music give form both to the author and to characters drawn from her novels, allowing biography and fiction to occupy the same performance space. The company is recognised in the puppetry arts, with movement and manipulated figures carrying meaning alongside music and signed song. This version is adapted for Nohant, the place most closely associated with Sand’s home, writing and artistic circle. That setting adds unusual immediacy to a production concerned with how an author survives through invented lives. Its layered design replaces the conventional literary portrait with gesture, voice and material that bring Sand’s imagination into view.