Orelsan, Lomepal and Apple on the vegetarian menu of We Love Green

We Love Green starts strong on Friday evening with Orelsan. The king of French rap opens an edition whose programming is solid. It mixes all styles of contemporary music: electronic music, independent, sometimes more pop, a little reggaeton and, like any good festival, hip-hop and French rap. From June 2 to 4 in the Saint-Hubert plain of the Bois de Vincennes, fifty artists will share the five stages of the event. Among them we find stars like Lomepal, Pomme, The Blaze, Disiz or Agar Agar; others are more emerging like the rapper Jwles or the duo Sad Night Dynamite.

The festival gives pride of place to rap, the genre most listened to by the French. Orelsan therefore opens hostilities on Friday. Lomepal as well as Dinos will close the weekend. Disiz, will go on stage on Saturday at the end of the afternoon. Some, less known to the general public, also have their place: on Saturday, Jwles and his very particular flow, which borrows from American rap, will play with Mad Rey. 070 Shake delivers a delicious mix of post-RNB, rap and electronic music; or Gazo, considered the French king of drill and recently rewarded at the Flames ceremony.

This year, two heavyweights will grace the stages of We Love Green: the rock group Bon Iver and Phoenix, one of the most famous French pop rock bands worldwide. Pusha-T, considered one of the greatest American rappers of his time, will perform on Saturday evening. On the same day, rapper Little Simz, inspired by Lauryn Hill, will mix her soul, funk, hip-hop and African-American influences.

On the electronic music side, Skrillex, the EDM superstar, will be on stage on Sunday evening. The essential Blaze since the hit Territory, released in 2015, will enchant festival-goers on Friday evening. A duo will also be present: Darkside. The latter, fruit of the meeting between Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington, was born in 2011 in a Berlin hotel room. After four years of separation, the two artists met again in 2018. This year, the duo returns with their hypnotic electro for a new project with new wave influences. The Agar Agar duo will also be there with a last album The Rebirth, dark and bewitching.

The founder of We Love Green, Marie Sabot, is particularly keen to make room for emerging artists. Sad Night Dynamite is an English duo whose music is both psychedelic and melancholic. We recognize Gorillaz, Pink Floyd, The Avalanches. The two boys from Glastonbury will take the stage on Saturday. Among the young talents, we can also mention Maureen, Guadeloupean artist and queen of dancehall, as well as the deceptively naive and very sixties pop of Sofie Royer.

With its Think Tank, We Love Green raises the awareness of city dwellers to nature. The scene "is intended to be a platform for committed personalities", describes the press release of the event. Debates will bring together scientists, journalists, activists and MEP Raphaël Glucksmann.

A sports space is being created this year. Named the Playground, this skate park is a reference to the 2024 Olympic Games. The organizers of We Love Green share their expertise in organizing more responsible events. This new space also hosts a stage on which the team of the Ed Banger label, including its boss Pedro Winter, will play.

We Love Green values ​​its image as an eco-responsible festival. Pioneer in its beginnings in 2011 - when it was still in the gardens of Bagatelle du Bois de Boulogne - the event is today a reference in terms of environmental initiatives. This year, festival-goers are invited to bring back a water bottle and a lunch box, the dishes are recorded, a solar farm has been installed and the fifty restaurateurs present will only offer vegetarian dishes. In an interview with Figaro in March, Marie Sabot, co-founder of the event, was delighted to present “a carbon footprint of sixteen kilos per festival-goer”. Which would be very low, if we are to believe the calculations by the Shift Project association, which estimated the carbon footprint of a festival-goer at the Vieilles Charrues for example at 50 kilos.