The voice and pen of Michel Maffrand. An unexpected encounter between the Landes bagpipes and electric guitar, traditional Occitan song and modern sounds.
Tag: occitan song
Fèsta occitana in Mouillac: Regional Repertoire
Mouillac hosts Fèsta occitana, a concert where Occitan language and music drive the programme. It’s programme is built around live music and dance. The value lies in hearing Occitan culture as repertoire, speech and social gathering rather than a heritage label. The activity, the place and the event’s subject support one another.
Visite atypique de Salies par les salisiens !
Salies-de-Béarn hosts Visite atypique de Salies par les salisiens !, a guided nature outing where local landscape drives the programme. The event invites participants to celebrate diversity—both in plants and in languages and cultures! To celebrate plants and their richness, we’ll be joined by Marie Baudoin, an ethnobotanist and artist, we’ll collect specimens in the city’s most iconic spots and explore their scientific and common names, their habitats, and their resilience.
Cocanha at Guinguette La Joyeuse
Cocanha at Guinguette La Joyeuse ties La Bastide-Clairence to voice, repertoire and local memory. The setting at Pont de port anchors the event in La Bastide-Clairence. The core of the event is voice, repertoire and the communal memory carried through performance. That cultural angle makes the occasion legible as something practiced, shown, heard or shared locally. It gives Nouvelle-Aquitaine a precise public scene shaped by subject, place and community use.