After New Year's Eve at the Palace of Versailles, France 2 invests in music the central court of Roland-Garros. Here, the beaten earth hides under an ephemeral ground. Above the exit doors there are signs "Fête de la musique" and the orchestra of Olivier Schultheis (who accompanies the candidates of "The Voice" on TF 1) plays "the Bamba". At the heart of the main stage, all round erected, Dany Brillant raises his arms to the sky as if vibrating in communion with the audience. The stands are however empty, this Saturday, during rehearsals. But Monday June 21, from 9 pm, the 45 invited artists will sing in front of 4,000 guests, admitted on health pass.
On the program, the 1980s, the happy years.
“This decade was the last burst of melodies, we held them in our hearts.
It was freedom and coming here to sing
La Bamba
stirs my adolescence, ”recalls Dany Brillant.
The evening of the Two will be presented by Garou and Laury Thilleman.
At 1 p.m., the Quebecer arrives, still smiling and affable.
Cap and t-shirt, he launches into “For me, formidable”, by Charles Aznavour.
On one of the two side stages, Émile and Images sing “Midnight Demons”.
At 73, the leader of the Gold group has kept a safe deposit by resuming his hit “A little closer to the stars”.
A voice reminds the microphone to "keep the masks".
"We wanted a renaissance party"
The sound quality is excellent and a spider camera, used during tennis matches, slides on ropes.
“We mobilize 300 technicians, 96 m2 of screens, explains Maryse Marascia, from France TV Studio, producer of the show.
We placed 760 projectors and 17 cameras.
One of them, on a gondola, climbs 52 m high on the court and a drone will look for views of Paris, of the Eiffel Tower.
The lyrics of the 80 songs will scroll across the screens for karaoke at home.
Choreographer Kamel Ouali and Dany Brillant at rehearsals.
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The three-hour show promises to be brilliant.
It will open with “Envy”, by Johnny Hallyday, sung by Patrick Bruel, Louane, Kendji and Garou.
Spectators will heat up the atmosphere with a hat, boa and glow stick kit.
“We wanted to offer an original place to guests and viewers, insists Alexandra Redde-Amiel, director of variety and entertainment at France Télévisions.
Returning to Nice seemed complicated.
Here we have the space, a removable roof in the event of inclement weather.
We wanted a renaissance party, focused on fun to dance and sing.
"
The return of David and Jonathan
Fans will be surprised to see David and Jonathan again with their ballad "Are you coming for the holidays?" ". “Quietly”, from the iconic Bibie, will give them chills again. “David and Jonathan haven't sung together for thirty years! tip Olivier Kaefer, creator of the RFM Party 80 tour. Bibie, she lives in Ghana. She saw this craze in France for the 80s and she comes back here three months to sing. "
This eighties party would lose flavor without Gilbert Montagné, happy to play away from home after eighteen months of hiatus.
It will provide a medley "Sunlights", "On va s'aimer" and "Fool" in a new groove version.
“This Music Festival coincides with the fifty years of
Fool,
who had been number one in a dozen countries.
My challenge is to set fire to my seven musicians, ”says the artist on stage this summer and who likes this popular initiative.
“She had the intelligence to open the doors to amateur musicians,” he says.
At the foot of my building in Ménilmontant in Paris, a brass band came to play every Sunday, it was magical!
"
Caroline Loeb during rehearsals.
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Caroline Loeb, she curled up in the cotton wool. Blue hat, yellow shoes, black dress, distinguished and relaxed style at the same time. She also wants people to love her for her new repertoire, her show “Chiche” (at l'Archipel, in Paris, on Saturday until July 31), in which she tells her story between fun and confidences. “I have never stopped singing, working, writing for thirty-five years.
It's the wadding
remains a calling card, an instant facelift, without a scalpel ", laughs the 65-year-old artist, praising" the breath of fresh air and creativity, the freedom, the cultural abundance, the freshness and the fun "of 1980s to which she devoted a book in 2015 (“My 80s from A to Z”, at Vents de sable). For a broader cultural perspective, La Documentation française has just released “the Lang Years”, in tribute to François Mitterrand's Minister of Culture who created the Fête de la Musique in 1982.