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Threatened with extinction in the mid-2010s, Musiques Métisses, the oldest European festival of world music, is resurrecting from Friday in Angoulême. For its 47th edition, the festival will take place from Friday June 2 to Sunday June 4, and will welcome the Franco-Algerian singer Souad Massi, the Senegalese soul singer Faada Freddy, the Cuban pianist Roberto Fonseca, Gnawa Diffusion, the Cameroonian Blick Bassy, as well as the Haitian Moonlight Benjamin or Gérald Toto and her folk-jazz-soul with Caribbean accents. “In the era of social networks, it is more difficult to be pioneers because the music circulates faster, but we always try to have real discoveries, affirms Patrick Duval, the programmer of the festival. For example, the Ghanaian group Superjazzclub may have played twice in France before their concert on Sunday evening.
Launched in 1976 by Christian Mousset, then a record store in the city center, the festival was first called Jazz in France, before being renamed Jazz and Musiques Métisses in the mid-1980s, then Musiques Métisses. Christian Mousset brought the Malian Salif Keita and the group Kassav to Europe for the first time in 1984, the Reunionese Danyèl Waro in 1985. World music was then only in its infancy. Then it will be the South African Johnny Clegg in 1986, the Cape Verdean Cesaria Evora in 1991... At the same time, the festival, alternating on different stages with free and paying concerts, gives pride of place to new talents.
In 2015, Mousset left the ship. Patrick Duval, director of a room in the Bordeaux area, succeeds him. But a few months later, Musiques Métisses files for bankruptcy after the disengagement of the city and the department. The festival will significantly reduce its sails and will leave its emblematic place, the island of Bourgines on the edge of Charente, to go into exile on the outskirts.
After four confidential editions, Musiques Métisses finds in 2020 a place more in line with its past standards. "We find this incredible site in front of the Cité de la BD with both this large esplanade, greenery and magnificent gardens, which suits us completely", explains Patrick Duval. “These different spaces allow us to have a large stage with festive music and a more intimate space where we can allow ourselves to program music that can be listened to seated, quietly”.
