Festival Musiqueyras - Friday, July 25, 2025

Program:
Espace Guinguette / Place des Halles - Abriès
free
4:30 pm Restitution of the week's music workshops
Presentations by MussiQueyras musician trainees! Traditional singing from Southern Europe, West African percussion, diatonic accordion
6pm Jelly Sugar Band
The Jelly Sugar Band is the joy of a jazz that's a little tricky, a little naughty, the nostalgia of a New Orleans, in 1900 and of hoodlums, the acid smell of an apple pie, the blue smoke of the bateaux-mouches, the memory of a bad whisky, swallowed late at the bottom of a harbor, it's blues, rag, endless nights, sweat and velvet... As sweet and tangy as rum candy!
And the cast:
Alice Dézailes: vocals
Vincent Modolo: trumpet
Manu Amadei Giuseppi: clarinet
Paul Cura: double bass
Geoff Hartley: drums and trombone
Thomas Mazingue: guitar and banjo

Big top - Abriès
8:30pm - FALIBA
Gleaming Afro-jazz with Mandingo echoes
Afro-Jazz, Afro-Beat, traditional Mandinka revisited, sweet or spicy world songs... Faliba is a harmonious and explosive communion, an invitation to dance! Faliba's afro-fusion takes a fresh look at the Mandingo musical tradition. Somewhere between spicy jazz and afro-beat, this delightful quartet ventures into the lands of West Africa, tinged with Bambara songs, lively guitar, colorful saxophones, frenetic drums and percussion...
But above all, Faliba is the unique sounds of singer Yanifola's 10- or 14-string n'goni. The kamélé n'goni, the kora's little brother, is a lute harp from the Mandé region and one of the best-kept secrets of the Malinké repertoire. Faliba brings it to life in an energetic, gleaming Afro-jazz setting.
Yanifola: Compositions, N'goni, Vocals
Jeff Canova: Guitar, Percussion, backing vocals
Seb Smither: Alto & Baritone saxophones, backing vocals
Thomas Bourgeois: Drums & Zarb
Tim Chopin: Sound technician
10:30pm - DJUSU
Afro Groove Rock Concert
DJUSU, or "the heart" in Malinké, is a pretty secret in Nantes, but one that tends to get out.
But given the trio's lively performances, where electric guitars, n'goni and calabashes escaped from Orange Blossom revolve around Evelyne Mambo's dancing and singing, you'd be surprised at the opposite. Raw, piercing rock-psych references feeding "afro peppers" fed on M'balax, Highlife or Rumba, and a result that no aficionado of the late
aficionado of the late Tony Alle

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