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At the height of her glory in 1976, a few months after winning her César, Romy Schneider bared her soul for one night, during an interview – in French, at her request – with German journalist and feminist Alice Schwarzer whom she uncharacteristically confided in. Forty years later, the journalist is unveiling the previously unreleased 50-minute recording of this conversation and bringing her back to life, in an intimate film where Romy Schneider plays her finest role without any filters: her own. Stronger and more fragile than ever.

She was known as Rosie, and she was described as the prettiest of the Kennedy daughters. In the 1930s, Rosemary Kennedy was radiant in family photos, alongside her brothers JFK and Bobby, with nothing to indicate her suffering or intellectual disability from which she had suffered from birth.
However, in November 1941, aged 23, Rosemary disappeared from public life.

This film tells a sad story, even if the end could be removed. A star who is already a little dead goes to see the head doctor, the doctor of words. With love and abjection, he listens to her for two years. With love and repulsion. This sad, grim story was discovered in the notes of Dr Ralph Greenson, Marilyn Monroe’s last psychoanalyst, who pronounced her dead on the night of 4 August 1962. While a possible suicide was mentioned, this did not exclude the possibility that the star had been planning it for thirty-six years, or that she used someone else to accomplish her objective.

From 1976 to 1978, psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto presented Lorsque l’enfant paraît every day on France Inter radio. These ten minutes of radio dedicated to education were an immediate success. They were to revolutionise relationships with children for all of society. With this show, Françoise Dolto shared the benefit of forty years of therapeutic experience, based on listening to and speaking with the general public. She always regarded the baby as a person in their own right. She repeatedly stressed that everything had to be explained to children.

Documentary about one of the most famous French icons of the silver screen in the second half of the 20th century: Brigitte Bardot. Directed by Virginie LINHART, the film retraces the life of the actress, from her childhood to her farewell to cinema, covering her beginnings, essentially through the prism of her love life, and focusing on the men with whom she had affairs.

“For many years, I carried out an investigation to locate the former tenants of 209 rue Saint-Maur, so I could piece together the story of this small human community during the German Occupation. I located them in Paris, in the suburbs of Paris, outside Paris, in Melbourne, New York and Tel Aviv. I filmed them and I also filmed the stones and the current residents of the building to capture the traces of a broken intimacy, in an attempt to get stones to reveal their secrets, layer by layer, like an archaeologist”.

This 1937 documentary shows the towns, countryside and shores of the Aude department. The cinematographer was young René Clément, aged 24 at the time. He was yet to direct his great films such as La bataille du rail (The Battle of the Rails), Jeux interdits (Forbidden Games), Plein soleil (Purple Noon) or Paris brûle-t-il ? (Is Paris burning?) but his artistic talent was already apparent. This road movie, ahead of its time, provides us with images and atmospheres of a forgotten world.

How did this poor little girl from Missouri become the darling of Paris society, before joining the Resistance and starting her dream family, adopting twelve children from all over the world? This is the fabulous story of Josephine Baker, the first black icon. Rare, often unpublished archives tell the story of the political awakening of the “wild dancer”, who became a human rights activist, joining the fight for civic rights in her country of origin, the USA. But can an icon change the world?

Esther Nourri has been singing vocal jazz standards for many years, to which she adds strength and musical sensitivity so that they can be heard again and again.

With Grégoire Aguilar on the organ, Florent Hortal on the guitar and Pierre Thuriès on drums, the Esther Nourri 4tet draws on a contemporary and dynamic sound to reinvent the repertoire of great jazz classics.

It’s carnival madness time in Venice.

Three husbands who firmly believe in outdated patriarchal values force their wives and children to live locked inside their home. But when the time comes for one boor’s daughter to marry the son of an even more boorish man, rebellious and determined women ingeniously take over.

The Ratnners is a trio full of communicative and dynamic energy who play Irish standards. With their strong rhythm section, they set venues ablaze with tracks such as Black Velvet Band or The Wild Rover, mythical songs taken from the repertoire of authentic Irish music.

The Ratnners invite you on a journey through the misty and green meadows of Irish counties. Their exhilarating songs will immerse you in the myths and legends of this faraway land or may lead you to an Irish pub to sip a Guinness!

Bois Vert is a 5-headed beast on stage, with 2 MCs (Macsinge and Digeo), one pianist (MMX), one turntablist (Docteur HAD) and the jack of all trades in the shadow, Watson. With 2 EPs and more than 200 concerts, this rap quartet released their 1st album Le Jus in March 2018.

On 20 April 2012, the six members of Hocus Pocus joined C2C in Tokyo for their final stage show, symbolising the handover between the two formations.

iAROSS is a mixture of three styles, a fluid, crystal-clear sound, reflecting multiple influences. The trio, who all studied at music schools, plays a blend of jazz, rock, French chanson and slam. The band from Montpellier has already made a mark with this very peculiar mixture on their second album Renverser, which was awarded the Coup de cœur prize by the Charles Cros Academy.

Hyphen Hyphen is the French band on everyone’s lips, and they will play on the Chénier stage on 5 July, to the delight of the Carcassonne audience!

At only 25 years of age, these three young high-energy artists are a success story and already have impressive credentials: Victoire de la Musique award in 2016 in the “best live newcomer of the year” category, confirmed by a European tour including more than 200 dates.

Founded in January 2002 by trumpeter Freddy Bastide, Pena Bastid’and’Co consists of 12 musicians based around Sète.
La Pena celebrates its 17th anniversary this year!

Also famous for its colourful and varied costumes, it is the “go to” band for all jousting events in Sète and the entire Thau lagoon, as well as annual jousting demonstrations at the Nîmes Féria.

• 06 July: Clair-Obscur by Henri ORMIERES, Tenured organist: music by Franck, Vierne, Guilmant.
• 13 July: Cor et orgue by Reinhard SEELIGER (Goerlitz) and Manfred DIPPMAN (Cottbus): music by Bach, Mendelssohn, Saint-Saëns, Reger
• 20 July: Le cycle des fêtes by Patrick ALLEN (New York), music by Bach, Widor, Duruflé
• 27 July: Esprit français and héritage allemand by Stéphane BOIS (Mirepoix): music by Franck, Widor
• 03 August: Miroirs by Hendrik BURKARD: music by Buxtehude, Bach, Franck

Proud Mary is an English rock band under contract with Noel Gallagher’s Sour Mash label since the 2000s. These musicians opened for bands such as Oasis, Neil Young, David Bowie, Bryan Adams, Paul Weller and Blondie.

Band members recently accompanied Noel Gallagher (brother of Liam Gallagher, who plays the IN Festival!) on his European Tour.
The band’s 5th album, Songs From Catalina, recently recorded and mixed in Palma de Majorca, will be released in June 2019.
Do not miss Proud Mary at the OFF Carcassonne Festival on 6 July!

Bands and fashions come and go, some remain and last. Much more than a simple musical spasm and passing fad, Magma established themselves in 1970 with their music, free from any compromises and clichés. Violent, virtuoso music unlike any other.

Founded by drummer and singer Christian Vander, the group quickly stood out from their peers with a powerful and relentless polyrhythm. Accompanied by big names in contemporary music, Vander remains a talented mentor, not unlike Miles Davis.

Why split up by mutual agreement when an acrimonious split is the best way to show the other how much they mean?

Three couples, for very special and totally different reasons, decide to break up. They engage in a vitriolic and rancorous exchange of words, as part of simultaneously absurd and normal situations in a cacophony of surprising actions and words.

THOMAS DUTRONC & LES ESPRITS MANOUCHES
Singer-songwriter, band leader or humble guitarist, disciple of King Django, fun-loving or serious: Thomas Dutronc is all of the above. He is back with a new album, Live is Love, which he released on 7 September 2018 and will promote on the stage of the Jean-Deschamps Theatre.

Nito Quintana Grupo is the successful musical amalgam of Latin America and the old European continent.

After roaming both continents for more than 30 years, from Paris to Berlin, Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, without ever forgetting to regularly return to its South American roots in Chile, the band has distilled its original melodies for an audience won over by their enthusiasm and high spirits.

A man becomes gradually convinced that an invisible being is living near him and feeding from him while he is asleep.
Is he suffering from hallucinations, is he going crazy or is he the first victim of a supernatural being?

We get to know this apparently sane man through his diary, discover the various phenomena he is confronted with... and remain suspended to his fate for just over one hour, until we find out about the outcome.
Beautiful words, thrilling suspense…

Franco-American artist Marina Anne Nolles deals in dark pop music: dark lyrics accompanied by delicately smooth music. M.A.N’s voice catches you, both burning and ice cold, as she is full of contrast. The sound is both violent and delicate, a sort of Voodoo Trip Hop from the swamps, a cinematographic trip.

Written by Eric Carrière - Starring Eric Carrière and Francis Ginibre

Camping-Car For Ever, the new 2019 show by Chevaliers du Fiel on the stage of the Jean-Deschamps Theatre on 10 July!

Young. Brunette. Deep, confident voice. Singer and songwriter with a debut album where all ten songs, supplemented with four new tracks in its reissue, will pierce your heart like burning arrows. She cried, but life goes on.

Now she is the one leading the charge and dancing the night away. Clara Luciani has a talent for songwriting: she can translate her personal story into a universal value. This songwriting has the patina of passionate singers she grew up listening to: Françoise Hardy, Lana Del Rey, Barbara, Blondie or Nico.

Pareiškiu – Brandir is a performance choreographed by Alban Richard with French and Lithuanian dancers as part of the KlaipeDanse international artistic cooperation project.

It contributed to the French programme celebrating the Centennial of the Restored State of Lithuania and was performed on 12 and 13 June 2018 at the Klaipeda Drama Theatre as part of the 2018 TheATRIUM Festival.

After touring 3 Lithuanian cities in November 2018 (Vilnius, Kaunas and Siauliai), for the first time Alban Richard and the performers reveal extracts of this performance to a French audience.

This folk singer and outstanding guitarist from the Mayenne department who now resides in Albi is becoming increasingly prominent on the French music scene. Sparkling and lucid, he endeavours to poetically and musically capture small moments in the life of his peers and to create authentic sounding albums.

Combining tender and realistic lyrics against the sound of his guitars, he revisits his latest compositions on stage and lets himself go with a few covers of French chanson and English songs.

With approximately one hundred and fifty dancers, from stars to trainees, the Paris Opera Ballet is one of the world’s leading companies, not just in terms of quantity but also in terms of combined talents. It may be said that almost all male and female dancers are stars in the making. Here is a hand-picked selection, full of elegance, charisma and life, who successfully take on well-known classical bravura pieces, while also defending more contemporary creations, showcasing the full extent of their abilities.

In 2018, Alain Chamfort celebrated 50 years in show business. Rather than releasing a best-of or going on an anniversary tour, he proposes opening a new chapter in his discography with his most direct album to date.

Being more direct, removing barriers. He has dropped his detached, ironic attitude, without however contradicting his lightness or his innate and deep-rooted desire to sing first and foremost. After a long and rewarding collaboration with Jacques Duvall, Chamfort has now entrusted the lyrics to long-time friend Pierre-Dominique Burgaud.

Chaac performs alone on stage but is accompanied by his looper so that he can record instruments as he goes along, thereby creating his songs in real time.
His harmonica adds folk undertones and his guitar rock sounds.
He writes with a great deal of sincerity to create personal and hard-hitting songs.

A grain of Boom Boom … A touch of harmonica…
A drop of guitar… A soupçon of vocals and a hefty dose of creativity! Shake well and what you get is Chaac: to be listened to liberally!

Camélia Jordana presents her 3rd album entitled LOST, the culmination of a project developed for more than 2 years, which intends to convey a message of multicultural hope: singing for a generation who pushes boundaries in terms of gender, languages and ideas and who, like Camélia Jordana, fight their battles with joy.

Musicians with different and atypical careers meet and influence each other to create an eclectic Latino, jazz repertoire, with attractive funky touches. Over time, humour and frenetic rhythms, spiced up with a feminine touch, have become prominent in the form of original arrangements and personal, facetious and inspired compositions.

They entertain people in the audience, who are taken by surprise and become willing accomplices.

Paul Abraham, guitarist, singer-songwriter with a hoarse and melodic voice, performed in various Paris venues such as Le Golf Drouot, Taverne de l’Olympia, Carré Blanc, etc. After taking a few years off, he met Kriss T. who began her artistic career at a very young age, appearing in Jacques Martin’s TV shows, with the band Image…
She is now the singer and bass player of the band BeCool which she created with Paul Abraham in 2014.

Inspired by Alfred de Musset – Created by the 2017 Grignan Fêtes Nocturnes

Lorenzo, a young Florentine patrician, an admirer of Greek and Latin Antiquity heroes, has dedicated his life to freeing Florence from the tyranny of Alexander, his cousin. In order to get near him, he becomes his trusted servant and fellow hellraiser. The republicans, led by the Strozzis, and the nobility, represented by Marchioness Cibo, conspire in the shadows but remain immobile, ineffective.

Singer-guitarist and exceptional show-man, Manu Lanvin is now an iconic figure on the French blues-rock scene.
Performing as the “Devil” before bigger and bigger crowds, and acclaimed by his peers, such as Quincy Jones who regularly invites him to perform at the galas of the Jazz Foundation of America, or Johnny Hallyday whom he opened for at the end of his life, Manu Lanvin unquestionably embodies the renewal of the genre and has perfected his brand of explosive blues rock over the years.

Regular participants in the 14th July celebrations, Guy Lacroux, his accordion and orchestra will get the ball rolling!

An opportunity to come and dance while waiting for the fireworks...

Event: Yarol hits the road again and will perform on the Carnot stage on 14 July for Bastille Day!

Well-versed with the stage and studios, Yarol has always navigated between different imaginary worlds with complete freedom. This instinctive aesthete is constantly satisfying his voracious appetite for different musical genres: Rock, Blues, Punk, Hip-hop, Afrobeat, Funk, Soul, Electro, etc. Anything as long as it gets people moving, sweating, as long as it is electrifying.

TRIO BERGIN’ (pronounced TRI AUBERGINE!) is made up, as its name suggests, of 3 musicians, key ingredients of this ultra-energetic Jazz & Swing blend.

TRIO BERGIN’ invites you to rediscover, through personal arrangements and a unique singing style, this carefully selected repertoire found in American musicals and in great female singers and performers (from Ella Fitzgerald to Diana Krall).

Atypical vocal ensemble Les Copains d’Accords stages large shows and musicals (Notre-Dame de Paris, The Lion King, Les Misérables, This is it, etc.).
They are returning to the OFF Festival for a musical experience during which they will also pay tribute to “great, recently deceased singers-songwriters” (C. Aznavour, J. Higelin, Maurane, M. Legrand, F. Gall, Johnny Hallyday, etc.).

The band plays a surprising mixture of genres which, from Tombé du ciel to Bohemian Rhapsody, from Gospel to Pink Floyd, from Calogero to Ray Charles, encourages its audience to sing along.

*SOLD OUT*

Joan Baez’s farewell tour is one of the major events of 2018/2019.
After selling out the Paris Olympia venue for fifteen shows, Joan Baez will honour Carcassonne with her presence on 15 July 2019.

By constantly pushing the boundaries of music and gender issues, Christine and the Queens has come to occupy a special place on the international stage, by combining flamboyant pop music with powerful minimalism. Her 1st album, Chaleur Humaine, acclaimed by international media, sold more than 1.3 million copies and won four Victoires de la Musique awards, including for best tour.

Les Bâtisseurs d’Empire is an incredibly ramshackle play with atypical humour, which obliquely portrays an upper middle-class family as the microcosm of a society searching for clearer rules.

While the pretences of the father and mother fuel the rebellion of their teenage daughter Zénobie, they are all willing participants, including their handmaid, in this recreation of a systemic world governed by role plays. But the home keeps getting smaller, the family is breaking down and the Schmürz is still there.

Born in Senegal, Paamath arrived in France at the age of 4. This singer-songwriter started to perform in the late 1980s with the Exil band. In 2008 he continued his musical career under the name Paamath, as part of various formations ranging from solo to seven-strong, combining influences from his native land and encounters resulting from his worldwide travels. Paamath’s unique compositions are characterised by the poetic language created by following his inspiration as well as melodies tinged with folk and blues.

*SOLD OUT*

How high will Soprano go?
Having sold 800,000 copies of his latest album, L’Everest, and more than 700,000 tickets to what was the biggest French tour of 2017, Soprano will return to the stage for an exceptional “Phoenix Tour”.

Genuine standard bearer for African youth and their desire for freedom and change, this hero of modern reggae is also the spokesperson for an entire continent. Author of a politically conscious discography, as attested by the titles of his albums, he has constantly blurred the lines between music and combat: using lyrics as a weapon, records as firebrands. Originally from Côte d’Ivoire, he fell in love with music from a very young age.

Heaven help you of you fall under the spell of her slender appearance and sweet voice, reminiscent of that of Vanessa Paradis, mixed with the electro-sentimental rhythms of generation Y.

Alice et Moi may come across as a young blossoming girl but she is more than adept at playing with words and leading a team.
Alice et Moi is a very cerebral, self-taught, multi-talented artist, who directs her videos and produces her records herself, making her home-made, fiercely independent approach her core ethos.

A must-see rap event during this 2019 OFF Carcassonne Festival: Georgio live on the Chénier stage!

After a successful debut album, Héra (80,000 copies sold), followed by a tour (100 dates, a sold-out Paris Olympia and all major festivals), Georgio took his time, away from social networks, to work on his next project.

Friday 19 July 2019 at 9pm:
Radio France recital: accordion and clarinet duet - With Félicien BRUT and Renaud GUY-ROUSSEAU (France)
Na Loba Theatre
Free, booking required

Saturday 20 July 2019 at 5.30pm:
Recital by Christine TRANCHANT (France)
Cultural Centre of Carcassonne’s E. Leclerc shopping centre
Free, no booking required

Sunday 21 July 2019 at 6.30pm:
Recital by Jonas VITAUD (France)
Domaine Le Petit Versailles, Montolieu
€15, booking required, payment on site

The Yakassé-mé Collective was founded 5 years ago, as a result of two friends travelling to Côte d’Ivoire, where they discovered Mandinka music, which has had a far-reaching effect on the African continent. On their return to France, they passed on their passion for djembe drums and dumdums to the current members of the collective.

ANGELE
Angèle is a mixture of Rihanna, Lily Allen and the Smurfette. With her velvet voice and casual tone, the young woman from Brussels writes her texts in an ultra-contemporary language where innocuous goes hand in hand with existential and trivial with poetry. In La loi de Murphy, her first single and video, a variation on the theme of toasted bread that always lands buttered-side-down, she mentions a series of everyday humiliations, from the rain ruining her blow-dried hair to this guy asking her for directions, “gentiment j’le dépanne, en fait c’était qu’un plan drague, ce con m’a fait rater mon tram”

The Touré Kunda brothers are back!
Toure Kunda, songwriters who composed 13 albums including 3 gold records, are the fathers of world music and the first African musicians to win three successive gold records.

The band has stood the test of time and rocked all generations, establishing themselves in France and around the world. With more than 700 concerts and festivals on all continents (Espace Dunois, Carnegie Hall, Palais du Trocadéro, Palais des Congrès, stadiums in Yokohama, Algiers and Dakar), the Touré brothers have already emerged on the world stage!

This Marmaille blurs the lines of repertoires and music... luxurious for the ears, glitzy for the eyes!

Six artists: a stylish singer, a bassist with an electrifying voice, an energetic tuba, a very appealing saxophone, a sly trombone and an eclectic drummer.
La Marmaille is a brilliant carrousel with classy, brassy sounds, a roller-coaster with an abundance of grooves and punchy drums, a ghost train travelling to the land of twisted jazz, soul and hairy rock.

Created in 2004, Korttex is a band from Perpignan. This quintet features members from other bands (Kargol’s, Skawar, Skamikazes and Dreadful), each contributing a different influence, which explains the broad panel of musical genres they tackle.

In December 2012, La Ruda put an end to 20 years of activity and more than 1,000 concerts, from dark venues to the biggest festivals. 10 albums attest to their extraordinary career, as do several generations of faithful fans, such as the Ruda-Street-Team, the hard core of an active fan base, eager to have them back.

The fishery of ship-owner Gor Boucar is on the brink of bankruptcy. Even when they patrol the big whirl in the middle of the lake, which is known to be an exceptional breeding ground, catches are declining.

According to Viv (the young recruit), the previously fish-bearing and beneficent waters contain a mysterious threat she alone can feel.

As on the other side of the lake, sensors are being built to harness the energy generated by the whirl, the fish are leaving the waters, never to return…

Bernard Lavilliers, a Festival regular, returns to the stage with his latest album, deeply rooted in current affairs, 5 minutes au Paradis, which was released in the autumn of 2017. For this album, the artist surrounded himself with record producers from very different worlds: Romain Humeau, Fred Pallem, Benjamin Biolay, Feu ! Chatterton, Florent Marchet. He will perform for the Carcassonne audience on the stage of the Jean-Deschamps Theatre on 22 July.

Thomas Abecassis, Paul Cribaillet, André Djeranian and Christian Ky are all members of various other bands but they come together as WITH THE BEATLES, a project intended as a tribute to the Beatles!

With this project, the quartet gives us an overview of this legendary band’s timeless classics, as well as a few tracks less familiar to the general public, in the form of modern arrangements, consistent with what Paul Mc Cartney is currently doing.

Sainte-Beuve is a writer and critic, but is also friends with Victor Hugo. Constantly overcome with doubt and fantasies, he is jealous of his friend’s impressive literary success, while being fascinated by his genius.

He is also madly in love with Adèle, Victor’s wife. How can he seduce the wife of the genius he so admires when he lacks talent and personal charm?

Trying to seduce the wife of a genius when you lack beauty and talent is bound to put you in a critical condition.

In June 2018, Pascal Obispo released a new pop and catchy single entitled Chante la rue chante, heralding the imminent release of his new album on 12 October 2018.

A record filled with duets, involving Benjamin Biolay, Calogero, Christophe, Isabelle Adjani, Youssou’n’Dour, PHILIPPE pascal... and other guests. Like a homecoming for Pascal Obispo, who returns with rock-infused pop songs.

Produced in part by Benjamin Biolay and Pierre Jaconelli, this new eponymous album also provided Pascal Obispo with the opportunity to write most of the lyrics.

Mehdi Lee was on the Nouvelle Star 5 show and made the final cast of The Voice 5. He won the La voix du Sud-Ouest 2017 regional contest (more than 150 randomly selected participants). He is the solo singer of the Paradoxal band (as well as two acoustic groups) who have already performed approximately one hundred dates on the Mediterranean coast.

It all began with the duo formed with Florian, Fréro Delavega. After selling more than 2 million albums and bringing together 1 million spectators across France, 2017 marked their final concert in Bordeaux. That evening, Jérémy sang Revoir for Florian, who had taught him how to “marvel at little things and open his heart wide”.

As he is “introducing himself” with this first solo album, Jérémy has not forgotten who he is. He just needed to set the right tone, find the arrangements to distinguish this opus from songs written by the Fréro and let his feelings do the talking.

While Naya is still very young (16), she took her time: two years after her experience with The Voice Kids, in which she reached the final in 2014, she performed in Paris’ La Boule Noire, was headhunted by Sony Music, and is now releasing her first EP which consists of her first five compositions.

After performing in Zénith venues and festivals across France, appearing in the Paris AccorHotels Arena twice and selling out La Cigale 9 times, the energetic geeks of Shaka Ponk are back with the MonkAdelic Tour Part.II! A spectacular show full of sensational energy, punk rock and breath-taking digital creations!

Not to be missed in 2019!

A monologue is a long speech delivered to someone else, while soliloquy means talking to oneself. Apparently, Lou Doillon had a lot to say, but thankfully she was keen to share it with us, set it to music, pawn it off to some of the most daring French producers and take another step forward in her singing career which never fails to astonish.

As this new album is about to get released, Lou has performed a balancing act by recording a series of demos with just drums and guitar riffs, live with two musicians, in a rough, dry vein inspired by the White Stripes and Black Keys.

Ezra Hesper’s melodies lull us into a semi-conscious, dream-like state, as the day breaks or as night falls. The guitar is the essential companion of his sweet and personal songs, at times folk, at others pop, depending on his joys and sorrows.

21:30 : STING (*SOLD OUT*)

Carcassonne, December 10th 2019 :

Cherrytree Management and Live Nation have confirmed that Sting: My Songs will tour Europe next summer with very special festival and concert appearances scheduled including Carcassonne on July 26th 2019 with additional dates to soon be announced.

Jenifer, one of France’s most popular singers, is one of the headlining acts at the OFF Carcassonne Festival for a must-see concert on 26 July!

The Mississippi Jazz Band is one of the landmark bands, the standard bearers of a form of music that emerged in New Orleans in the last century. The musicians of the Mississippi Jazz Band generously play an authentic brand of jazz with the utmost respect for established masters such as Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet or Duke Ellington.

Having received a comprehensive education in singing, music, dance, theatre, film and writing, Barbara Willar featured on Paris stages for years as an actress and singer. After an initial show with Elizabeth Wiener (Higelin’s former partner), No woman’s land, Barbara Willar joined the Castafiore Bazooka band in 1996, resulting in two albums in 2005 and 2008. In 2012 she decided to focus entirely on writing and composing, the matrix of her current musical project.

OrelSan is a French artist, songwriter, director and actor who rose to fame in 2008 via videos posted online. His first album, Perdu d’avance, released in 2009, earned him a Gold Record and a Constantin Prize nomination that same year. A member of the Casseurs Flowters duet, he brought out a third album with his accomplice Gringe, OrelSan and Gringe sont les Casseurs Flowters, in November 2013, before directing Comment c'est loin in 2015, a feature film which chronicled the story of the duet.

Amel Bent did not win the Nouvelle Star but became a star with the release of her first album. With tracks such as Ma Philosophie, Ne retiens pas tes larmes or Le droit à l’erreur, she established herself as an accomplished artist in the heart of the public as well as her peers, such as Diam’s, Pascal Obispo, Johnny Hallyday and Charles Aznavour who all worked with her.

Gertrude, a tyrannical and cerebral playwright and director, and Hortense, a once-adored great opportunistic actress, get together for the first rehearsal of a new play.

While Gertrude feels she has absolute power over her actress, Hortense takes every opportunity to escape her grip by provoking jealousy in her spurned lover.
From falsely innocuous remarks to deliberately scathing criticism, the two women embark on a merciless tug-of-war under the gaze of the technician, Baptiste, who impassively bears the brunt of both women’s remarks.

A big event is preparing for 2019 : Liam Gallagher will be at the Festival de Carcassonne !
On July 28, the iconic singer will perform at Théâtre Jean-Deschamps for the very first time. A unique show and on his image : back on the front of stage with a blazing solo career, the ex singer of Oasis and Beady Eye is "ready, more than ready" to come to meet the public ... in Carcassonne!
An exceptional date not to be missed!

21:30 : The Black Eyed Peas
The Black Eyed Peas are one of the leading bands in the world of pop music, best known for enormously successful and intergenerational anthems such as Where Is The Love?, I Gotta Feeling, My Humps and Meet Me Halfway… These hits have played a major role in the life of millions of fans worldwide.

Kendji Girac hits the road... and the stage again. Of course he does. This is where the artist feels most comfortable. At only 22 years of age, the gypsy guitar virtuoso takes the public on a third tour, the Amigo tour, which will travel around France. “I am happiest when I am playing live music, he says with enthusiasm. Spreading joy to my audience and seeing it reflected in their eyes is what I love more than anything else!”

Don’t miss the return to stage of the world’s most famous Italian artist!
During this 2019 world tour, Eros will visit the most beautiful venues on all 5 continents, with stopovers scheduled in Moscow, Budapest, London, Prague, Los Angeles, New York, Rio de Janeiro and... Carcassonne, where he will perform at the prestigious Jean-Deschamps Theatre on 31 July.