From Monday July 11 to Sunday July 17, the Les Suds festival offers a real world tour.
With its new edition, the Les Suds festival in Arles would like “re-enchant the world”. According to Stéphane Krasniewski, “we need light at the end of this crisis tunnel, we need to party, to gather around tutelary figures like Bernard Lavilliers or Eliades Ochoa. Whether they come from the end of the world or from the region of next door, the approach is the same. They are inspired by their territory to tell a story that concerns us all, that brings us together”.
The big world tour will take place from Monday July 11 to Sunday July 17, with a hundred proposals from morning to evening. The ancient theater will host several creations, in particular the project around Armenia by André Manoukian and the Balkans or the new songs of the Tunisian Emel Mathlouthi, the muse of the Arab Spring. Among the highlights also, the only date in France of the Malian diva Oumou Sangaré or the return to the park of the workshops with a long night of music in connection with the 60th anniversary of Algerian independence. This will be the opportunity to dance to the enjoyable electro raï chaâbi trance of Acid Arab, bringing together Sofiane Saidi and Cheikha Hadjla.
The Bernard Lavilliers concert is already sold out. But it is still possible to go see the Cuban Eliades Ochoa and his Cuarteto Patria, a musician for half a century who became captain of the mythical Buena Vista Social Club. Or dancing with the Colombian La Perla, three young people who renew the vision of Bogota, creating after years of collecting traditional and alternative music.
But the Suds are not limited to big parties. For a week, the party is everywhere with free concerts in the Gentle Cruise area in the morning or in a more festive way, Place Voltaire, in the afternoon. You can also take part in around forty master classes to discover Gnawa rhythms, songs from Calabria or Indian dances.
The precious moments find the court of the archdiocese for more intimate formulas. The cycle starts very (very!) strong with Rodrigo Cuevas, queer icon of the Spanish scene. Then place the flamenco of Maria Terremoto, a pure ecstatic moment with Sahar Mohammadi and Haig Sarikouyoumdjian who revisit the Persian, Arab and Armenian heritage or discover the music of Circassia, a small region of the Caucasus, with the group JRPJEJ, who went into exile in Istanbul at the start of the war in Ukraine.
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