The second wave of announcements of the artistic program of the Les Déferlantes festival in Barcarès (Pyrénées-Orientales) is expected by the end of February.
Nearly 120,000 festival-goers are expected between July 10 and 13, making this festival "eclectic, with a good dose of rock and international, one of the biggest festivals in France", declares Fabrice Lorente, co-director of La Frontera production, the organizing association, and now neck and neck, in the South, with Garorock in Marmande (Lot-et-Garonne).
A leap forward for the organizers who welcomed nearly 60,000 festival-goers to the Céret site in 2019.
In terms of cost, that of such an event follows the same upward curve: “we doubled the artistic budget between 2019 and 2023, which represents half of the 11 million euros overall budget”.
Nearly 600 Passes at a preferential rate, before any announcement, have already been sold, the four, three and one day Passes are now available.
Fabrice Lorente knows this: 40% of sales will be made one month before the start of the festival, knowing that 38% of festival-goers come from the Pyrénées-Orientales and 50% more generally from Occitanie.
The rest mainly comes from neighboring regions and countries such as Spain in particular, as well as Paris.
“Our ambition is to go beyond concerts and offer festival-goers an experience and moments to sit down and chat,” continues Fabrice Lorente, announcing artistic and sporting events throughout the day.
A fourth date added for La Frontera
The summer-festive marathon of La Frontera production will have started a few weeks earlier with the 3rd edition of the Bacchus festival in Argelès-sur-Mer between June 6 and 8.
“A rather French-speaking festival, for 40-60 year olds, and 100% epicurean with local products and 22 Catalan winegrowers presented by the Roussillon interprofessional wine council”.
A fourth date, June 9, has been added.
Called Bacchus family, it will welcome local families and artists.
The day's proceeds will be donated to the Alice and the Little Warriors association, dedicated to seriously ill children, their parents, and nursing staff.
15,000 people are expected for the Bacchus festival, a concept that the organizers would happily decline, particularly internationally and possibly from 2025.
At the end of July, from 22 to 28, Frontera production will install in the heat of summer the Live au Campo in Perpignan, 9th edition of a “French music oriented” festival, for six evenings with 2,400 numbered seats.
The summer will then end with Pellicu-live, from September 5 to 8 in Thuir, a hybrid festival combining music, gastronomy and cinema, imagined with the actor François-Xavier Demaison and his wife Anaïs and whose program will soon be revealed .