The Suds festival in Arles wants to open up to "other worlds" through music

The Les Suds festival in Arles, which will hold its 28th edition from July 10 to 16, wants to continue to "open up other possible worlds" through music from India to Iran via Mali or Venezuela.

“World music is above all a way of listening to and expressing the world. Faced with the challenges of a systemic crisis and climate change, transmission, interbreeding and creation are forces of adaptation that must be seized to learn to live better together”, advocates Stéphane Krasniewski, director of the festival. "Illustrating the history of peoples, this music is still very much alive today, and this year again opens up other possible worlds to us", adds its president and founder, Marie José Justamond.

Eighty concerts or musical encounters and 40,000 festival-goers are expected in particular in the 2,500-seat ancient theater where, for example, the Spanish singer Silvia Pérez Cruz will perform for her only summer date in France, or the "heavyweight of contemporary jazz », the Israeli Avishaï Cohen or his compatriot Liraz who will make a detour via Iran.

On July 11, the Tinariwem collective will bring together Tuareg blues and American country. On July 12, the festival has planned an evening with four exceptional musicians, Vincent Segal, Vincent Peirani, Emile Parisien and the Malian kora star Ballaké Sissoko gathered in the quartet Les Egarés, named after their album. July 15, cumbia evening to end with Parranda La Cruz, Combo Chimbita and Son Rompe Pera. The gypsy singer Tomas de Perrate will perform in the courtyard of the Archdiocese for his only date in France