The Vieilles Charrues return to their usual gauge of 70,000 admissions per day for their thirtieth anniversary, after two years disrupted by the health crisis, with Midnight Oil, Stromae, Angèle, Clara Luciani, Orelsan and the Stiff Heads as headliners.
The Finistère festival, the first in terms of attendance in France, takes place from July 14 to 17 on the plain of Kerampuilh, in Carhaix (Finistère) on the theme "back to the 90's", a nod to its origins.
On the pop and song side, we find Clara Luciani, Angèle, Stromae, -M-, Vianney, Juliette Armanet, Aloïse Sauvage, Mansfield.TYA, Friday on the sea or even the young Rennes pop group La Battue.
Les Têtes Raides, who return with
Bing Bang Boum
, and Midnight Oil, replace Maxime Le Forestier and Queens of the Stone Age, who canceled their appearance.
Vitalic, Counterfeit, Thylacine, DJ Snake, Bob Sinclar B2b Pedro Winter or Meute and NTO will represent the electro scene.
In the rap department, Orelsan, Laeti, from the Validé series, Lujipeka, Rilès and Ninho are programmed
,
and for rock, the Irish Fontaines DC, crowned
"best group in the world"
by the British magazine
New Musical Express
, as well as Matmatah, Lulu Van Trapp, Fire!
Chatterton or Izia.
The Belgian-Congolese singer Marie-Pierra Kakoma, who goes by the stage name Lous and the Yakuza, or Celeste will also be on stage.
“We are very proud to celebrate our 30th anniversary with still so many headliners and new talents. It always amuses us to see the names of renowned artists from Berlin, London, Milan and … Carhaix on the posters, which we now know where to place on the map”,
welcomed Jérôme Tréhorel, general manager of the festival.
Special this year, 400 drones will rise in the sky each evening around midnight for a choreography accompanied by light effects and a soundtrack, to celebrate the anniversary of the festival.
Canceled in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, the festival was held last summer in a restricted form with a maximum capacity of 5,000 people for each of the ten evenings organized.
In 2019, the event had 270,000 entries over four days.