Les Nuits Atypiques – Trad & Folk Bals #2 with Laurent Cavalié & Illa to Villandraut

Le 05/07/2025

Languages spoken

7pm – Lecture “The diatonic accordion in Madagascar” by Patrick Lavaud. In this lecture extensively illustrated with old photographs and musical extracts, Patrick Lavaud discusses the’history of the two-sound diatonic accordion in Madagascar.

8pm – Shared meal out of the hamper

9:15pm – Ball with Laurent Cavalié (Lenga-balèti/Languedoc) and Groove Factory (Electro-trad) followed by’a boeuf trad.

Laurent Cavalié, the dancers and the rhythm. A bal à la voix solo, a capella, with melodic exploration as the playground, the Occitan language as percussion and improvisation as a space of freedom shared with the dancers.

Illa takes to the byways of Western Europe, from north to south (Sweden, Poitou, South West, Brittany, …) with four sound creators at the service of dance music. The voices invite you on a journey with a precise abyssal hurdy-gurdy…

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