“We still spent a milestone”. Fabien Barège, mayor of Porquéricourt, a small village in Noyonnais, and creator of the Festival de la Nuit des Concerts, is “particularly happy” of the artists scheduled as the Festival of Friday and Saturday July 4 and 5. The Festi ‘Prod association has just unveiled this Friday the six artists – three per night – and the headliners of the event: for Friday, singer Cali, and for Saturday, Yannick Noah.
There ticket office is already openand there may not be any for everyone …
Friday: Tracy, a Muse and Cali tribute group
So we start on Friday July 4, with, by order of appearance on stage that evening, Tracy in the first part, Musest and Cali.
Cali Who is currently celebrating two career decades will therefore stop his tour “twenty years of perfect love” in the Noyonnais. Whoever made himself known in the early 2000s with his album L’Amour Parfait (platinum disc) and titles now registered as the heritage of the song (it is when happiness, she said …) will come Make the show at the end of the evening. “He is a real stage artist who plays three times a week throughout France, someone who knows how to play with the public and who corresponds well to our festival,” says Fabien Barège. The artist still has, despite the years, “his fans base”.
Before Cali, will play a group “considered the best tribute in Muse”, announces Fabien Barège: Musest. The British rock group Muse is no longer to present either. His Tribute group, who came from Holland also made a name for himself in a part of Europe (France, Germany, Great Britain) where they regularly play the Black Hole, Uprising, Hysteria… Hysteria hits…
In the first first part finally, make way for a regional artist, Tracywhich in a song of singers in voice, will perform its own compositions, and covers of Adèle, or Santa for example. Icing on the cake, the young woman from Valenciennes will soon be The VoiceTF1 telecrochet show. What attract some curious additional to Porquéricourt if the television adventure is going well.
Saturday: Popacoo’s, Zouk Machine and Yannick Noah
Whether with a racket on clay, in the stands behind the Davis Cup team of Tennis, or on stage: everything he touches turns into gold. Yannick Noahthe interpreter of Saga Africa, or from Citizen Trees, will come to Porquéricourt to show which showman he is. Whoever had to cancel his tour last year due to injury will probably be expected. An artist who, microphone in hand, has already won over the Stade de France, and soon the Porquéricourt festival. “Yannick Noah like Cali, it is artists who understood the state of mind of the festival and are happy to come and perform on a smaller scene for an association,” underlines Fabien Barège.
Before Noah they are the no less famous Zouk Machine which will heat the scene. From the original trio, there is only the singer Chirstian Omydol. But no one has in any case forgotten their title Maldon, ranked nine weeks at the top of the top 50 in the summer of 1989.
The second and last evening will finally be opened by a local duo, very rock Isarians: Popacoo’s. Those who cut a reputation on all the scenes of the Oise, Aisne, de la Somme will heat up on a beautiful festival with their pop-rock (U2, Coldplay …) covers interpreted only two: a chorister percussionist and A singer guitarist.
A festival faithful to its tradition
This year again, the festival continues with its headliner policy, and even “heads” in the plural, groups of covers and local artists. “We arrived at a stadium where we have the opportunity to sign artists that we could not offer ourselves,” says Fabien Barège. The whole thing, without having to increase prices too much, with a pricing policy more than affordable: 25 euros per two -day pass to see six concerts and more than 10 hours of live music at the price of a single artist usually outside festival. Or 18 euros per day. The event will be free for children under 12. But You still have to book.
“We are likely to be at a closed counter,” warns Fabien Barège, which recalls that on the maximum gauge of 5,000 people (2,500 per evening) was complete a few hundred near last year.
This festival, this will not have escaped the most attentive, was shifted from the end of June to early July, to avoid colliding with the Retro C Festival too from Tilloloy (Somme), which had taken place the same weekend -End last year. “We have a part of the public public,” comments Fabien Barège.
Despite a maximum gauge soon reached, the Festi ‘Prod team is delighted with its rise in power in terms of artists. “The budget has passed since its creation in 10 years from 6,000 euros to 130,000 euros, it allows you to do beautiful things”, how they. If the festival is partially funded by communities (State, Region, Department, Commune), these subsidies represent less than 10 % of the budget. The rest is brought by local partner companies, especially from Noyonnaises, more and more compiegnois and even national like Toyota, Crédit Mutuel or Proxelia.
But above all, above all: ticket office and consumption on site on two evenings in concert. The public what …
