The Nancy Jazz Pulsation festival celebrates its 50th anniversary from Saturday

Nearly 100,000 fans in total are expected for the 150 concerts on the program for this edition of the 50th anniversary of the Nancy Jazz Pulsation festival. “For this edition, we wanted to bring together emblematic artists of the festival, like Marcus Miller, who is coming for the sixth time, but without making an outdated program, and remaining eclectic,” confided the director and programmer of the event, Thibaud Rolland.

To start, festival-goers will be able to get their feet wet with 36 hours of music and concerts throughout the city, and the organizers have planned an immersive exhibition, special programming for young audiences... and even a beer brewed on the playlists by Nancy Jazz Pulsation.

Among the main artists who will perform on one of the six stages of the festival, we note the Polish pianist Hania Rani, the leader of Snarky Puppy, Michael League, and the Israeli composer Asaf Avidan.

Zaho de Sagazan, revelation of French song 2023, who will perform at the Olympia on November 4, will also be there, as will American rapper Yasiin Bey (better known by his first stage name, Mos Def), surrounded from the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, or the Thomas Dutronc Trio.

The singer Émilie Simon, who is celebrating her 20th career, is also on the bill, as well as the poet-rocker Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine, and Pedro Winter, one of the ambassadors of French Touch electro, and his label Ed Banger. Acid Arab, a Franco-Algerian collective which provokes a beautiful collision between Western techno and Eastern trance, is also eagerly awaited.

“I wanted us to create an event that the people of Nancy could remember for 10 years, at least,” warned Thibaud Rolland.