2023-07-15 06:59:34
– To his grateful Paleo youth
Since its birth nearly fifty years ago, the Vaudois open air has always been able to attract new festival-goers. More than the quality of its musical poster, the survival of the event depends on the demographic aspect.
Posted today at 08:59
I’m too old to go to Paleo. The proof, last year, I sweated to try to appreciate the PNL concert. Neurasthenic rap with inaudible words. First, this music spins the blues. Then I feel like I’m becoming hard of hearing. Which may be the case.
But am I not too, really too young to go see Maxime Le Forestier? Next Saturday in Nyon, the guitar singer, the folk of the French language, an indefatigable dreamer of Californian horizons (probably something in common with PNL), will have the 46th edition all to himself. Time for an aperitif. Because just following, the same evening, it will be the rush on new wave rap, Paléo under the rhythmic and lyrical bombs of Aya Nakamura, Damso and Dinos.
This good Maxime is 74 years old. The first time he played in Nyon was nearly half a century ago, in 1974, for the Folk Club de L’Escalier, the ancestor of Paléo. Daniel Rossellat, who was precocious, was already in charge of operations management. In a month, the patron of the festival will celebrate his 70th birthday. It’s worth remembering that at the time – Daniel Rossellat was in his twenties – the hip-hop culture from which rap emerged was crying out for the first time in New York, without considering that one day it would land in Europe.
Decades have passed, fashions have followed, Maxime has remained. Just like the rock fan, the rap fan, or the even more recent techno revival fan, recently represented at Paléo. We needed a solid sociological study to be sure of it definitively: the aesthetics that we contract in adolescence, we attach ourselves to it until the grave. Notice to today’s youth, the third generation of festival-goers: Paléo is delighted to be programming PNL in fifty years.
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