Les nuits musicales de l’APAS celebrates women and music through a classical concert led by young Franco-German musicians. Works by Vivaldi, Clarke, Leonarda and Brahms shape an evening where repertoire and commemoration speak together.
Topic: events
Preparons le Roi de l’Oiseau
Preparing Roi de l’Oiseau looks at the festival’s making through photographs and workshop material. The behind-the-scenes angle gives the Renaissance festival a civic dimension, showing the labour, costumes and local participation that make the public pageant possible. It strengthens the identity story by showing tradition as an organized community practice, not only as spectacle during the festivities.
Les Basaltiques: Opening Evening
The opening night of Les Basaltiques introduces the festival through film, music and traditional dance. Instead of treating folk culture as a single stage performance, the evening opens several doors into the same world: repertoire, movement, listening and shared practice. It works as an Auvergne identity event because the festival’s core subject is the transmission of traditional music and dance in a public setting.
Old Nyons Guided Tour
The guided walk through old Nyons reads the town through its monuments, architecture and narrow Provencal lanes. Local stories and built heritage give the route a southern urban character that belongs to the Baronnies in Drome Provencale. The visit matters because it turns streets and facades into cultural clues, helping visitors connect Nyons’ present townscape with the memory of the place.
LES ZEOLES Folk Bal
Les Zeoles turn a honey-farm venue into a space for neo-trad music and dancing. The setting matters: a local agri-cultural place holds a folk ball where food, craft atmosphere and live dance practice meet. The event is not only a concert or a dance night; it shows how rural venues can keep traditional and contemporary folk repertoires active inside everyday community spaces.
Nyons Provencal Market
The Provencal market of Nyons is documented as part of the town’s historic and terroir identity. Its value is not only commercial: the market connects producers, seasonal food and the old centre in a way that helps visitors read the town through everyday local practice.
Fete du Picodon in Dieulefit
Picodon anchors this Dieulefit fair with one of the Drome’s most recognizable goat-cheese traditions. Producers, regional products and tastings keep the gathering centred on a named terroir food within a dedicated fair format. The event has cultural substance because the cheese carries local farming, craft production and taste memory, all visible through a public fair dedicated to the speciality.
Celti’Cimes: Calum Stewart Trio
Celti’Cimes gives Calum Stewart’s piping a mountain festival setting where Celtic, Scottish and Breton traditions can be heard in relation to one another. Bagpipe, Breton bouzouki and dance are not incidental textures; they are the cultural vocabulary of the concert. The event represents identity through repertoire and instrumentation, making a specific transregional tradition legible inside the Alpine programme.
Eurocarillon Concert
The carillon of Notre Dame de Lourdes is the central heritage object in this Romans-sur-Isere concert. Bell music, church acoustics and the Flemish-style instrument give the evening a precise musical and built-heritage profile. The concert belongs in the guide because it lets listeners experience a local monument through sound, where the instrument’s presence matters as much as the repertoire played on it.