The Off programme of Touraine Jazz Festival brings free concerts to the open-air stage at Montlouis-sur-Loire’s Village Gourmand. Artists and bands range across different jazz styles and eras, making discovery part of the experience across many musical languages. The informal setting gives audiences room to arrive, listen and move between sets while keeping careful listening central. Food stands place regional hospitality and local flavours beside the stage and turn the esplanade into a welcoming social meeting point. As the accessible counterpart to the festival’s indoor programme, the Off keeps jazz connected with public space, shared meals and the everyday cultural life of Montlouis for residents and travelling music lovers alike.
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Longchaumois Organic Fair
Humeur Bio’s organic fair in Longchaumois brings local producers and craftspeople together around the theme of building your own home. Talks, documentaries and environmental activities accompany the market. POKOR LER performs Maloya and Sega, blending standards from Réunion’s Creole repertoire with original compositions alongside the fair’s sustainable-living programme.
L’Oranger Early Music Concert
L’Oranger brings early Occitan music from France and Spain into a programme of courtly tunes and folk traditions. Mezzo-soprano Ariane Le Fourmis performs alongside Zuzanna Dubiszewska on traverso and Layal Ramadan on viola da gamba. Pierre Baptiste Brioude-Dhénain completes the ensemble on theorbo and baroque guitar, giving the concert its combination of voice, flute and string instruments.
Vaslav Cabaret Theatre
Vaslav is Olivier Normand’s flamboyant cabaret-theatre recital, built around a fantastical persona, lavish make-up and sequins. The solo performance explores fluid identities through humour, theatrical transformation and a voice that moves from baritone to countertenor. A shruti box supplies its hypnotic drone as cult songs and popular music pass through the room. Barbara, Grace Jones and David Bowie meet Schubert, West Side Story, Michel Legrand and even the force of a Bizet aria, creating deliberate collisions between genres and eras. Normand treats the stage as a laboratory for character, sound and poetic androgyny beyond the shape of a conventional song recital. Extravagance never stands alone: fantasy and emotion become tools for questioning fixed roles and celebrating the freedom to shift between them.
Festi’Coat Concert in Le Faouët
Danserien an Ellé starts Festi’Coat with an introduction to Breton dancing in Le Faouët. Lulu’s Trio follows with traditional and folk music, while Lucie Sky plays piano covers and her own compositions. Les Glochos add their humorous songs to the concert programme, before DJ Landry takes over for the closing set.
Presqu’île Breizh at La Trinité-sur-Mer
Presqu’île Breizh reaches La Trinité-sur-Mer with two performances from the festival’s eleventh edition. Bagad Locoal-Mendon brings Breton bagad music to the harbour esplanade in a stationary presentation shaped around the ensemble’s sound. A second appearance turns toward Scotland with Hundred Percent Collective, an all-female pipe band, moving in procession from the Voulien roundabout to Town Hall Square. Together, the appearances connect the waterfront and town centre through two different formats: a focused harbour performance and a street parade. The programme has a clear local identity within the wider peninsula festival, combining Breton instrumental tradition with Scottish pipe-band energy. Admission is free, and Cours des Quais provides the practical anchor for the La Trinité-sur-Mer dates.
Bombarde and Épinette Concert
Concert pour bombarde et épinette brings Vincent Marin and Wenceslas Hervieux into the church at Les Fougerêts under the ACLPF heritage banner. Their duo places bombarde and épinette beside Baroque invention, finding kinship between older composed forms and traditional song. The program suits European Heritage Days because music becomes a way to hear local memory, instrument craft and Launay-Fougerêts heritage together.
Les Boulinerien Sea Songs
Les Boulinerien of Plozévet bring a maritime song repertoire shaped by sea work, travel and coastal memory. Twelve singers and four musicians use djembe, saxophone, bagpipes, ukulele and diatonic accordion to arrange songs in French, Breton and English. The concert sits naturally in Pays Bigouden, where sailor song keeps language, harbor life and communal chorus close together.
Le Bal des Enflammés
Le Bal des Enflammés mixes mechanical spectacle with Breton music and night-festival atmosphere. Classic and luxury cars sit beside rides and demonstrations, while Sonerien Du, Ampouailh, Diskar and bagadoù from Morbihan and Côtes-d’Armor bring the sound of fest-noz and bagad culture. Food stalls add rougail, grilled meats and crêpes, making the gathering a broad Pluméliau-Bieuzy celebration.
Nizon Patronal Festival
Fête patronale de Nizon gathers several strands of village life around Pont-Aven: music under the big top, fairground games, country-style food and sporting contests. The Breton Horse Festival gives the weekend a rural anchor, while boules, pétanque and local concerts keep the format close to parish-festival tradition. The patronal feast is shaped by livestock, associations and Breton small-town sociability.