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Banlieues Bleues Festival

Banlieues Bleues
Genre jazz et musique cousines (world music, electronic music)
Dates Last weekend of April and first weekend of May
Location(s) Seine-Saint-Denis, France
Years active 1984 - present
Website
www.BanlieuesBleues.org

Banlieues Bleues Festival is a jazz music festival held in Seine-Saint-Denis. it was founded by Jacques Pornon, and the artistic director is Xavier Lemettre. Suburbs Blue is a jazz festival held every year in March / April in Seine-Saint-Denis, France . The concerts are spread across various locations in Seine-Saint-Denis. The festival is run by an association, funded by the department of Seine-Saint-Denis and the Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs of Ile-de-France.

The programming is original, and leaves an important place in the creation, although it also hosts US headliners like McCoy Tyner, and John Zorn in 2012, and Miles Davis in 1988.

The festival banlieues Bleues was founded in 1984, changed its name first as jazz en Aulnoye and was then under the new name of several communes of the department aligned. So, among other things occurred Max Roach and Dizzy Gillespie as a duo in March 1989 at the Maison de la Culture de la Seine in Bobigny on. In 1990, Eddy Louis's a 70-member Multicolor Feeling Fanfare -Orchester together.

Since 2006 the festival venue in La Dynamo is in Pantin discharged for game forms of jazz and improvised music; more events in 15 municipalities of the department as Aubervilliers, Gonesse, Le Blanc-Mesnil, Saint-Ouen, Stains or Tremblay-en-France instead. Many live recordings of the festival appeared as DVD and audio. The long-time organizer Jacques Pornon was 2001, the line to Xavier LEMETTRE from.

Funding for the Festival of the General Council of Seine-Saint-Denis, the cantons, the Conseil régional of the region Ile de France and the Ministry of Culture. banlieues Bleues, which has since become one of the largest music festivals in the Paris region, is 2012 with performances by artists such as McCoy Tyner, Joe Lovano, Nicole Mitchell, François Corneloup, Bruno Chevillon, Bernard Lubat, Marc Ribot, Romano / Sclavis / Texier, Bojan Z and Nguyên Lê instead. The Art Ensemble of Chicago celebrates be there 35th anniversary. Furthermore, the plays Orchestre National de Jazz under the direction of Claude Barthélemy.


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