2023-07-27 19:34:19
“Bravo, really bravo”, launches Cédric Le Ru to the few hundred spectators who came to enjoy the concert of Nâtah big band this Thursday evening July 27, in the humid garden of the ramparts, in Vannes. “It was a complicated day”, confides the artistic director of Jazz in the city to the public hidden under the umbrellas.
Festival organizers had been keeping their eyes on the weather for days. “The rain changes the atmosphere,” confided the programmer, a few days before the meeting. But the sky did not want to spare the festival. From Wednesday, when the rain was already coming in the evening, the decision was made for the next day to fold up the planned springboard on the esplanade of the port at the Auditorium des Carmes. Same regime for the jazz snack, moved to the dry in the Hôtel de Limur, rather than in its garden.
Throughout the day on Thursday, the organizers have to deal with the endless showers that do not want to leave the Vannes sky. In the production office, they are working on backup plans. The challenge ? Save as many concerts as possible in bars. Some will be able to take refuge inside the establishments, others will have to be postponed.
The Hugo Diaz quartet played inside the bar Les Valseuses, at the end of the followingnoon. The public took advantage of this sheltered jazz moment. (The Telegram/Marie Sebire)
“We still live the music”
For the large stage in the garden of the ramparts, its roof keeps the musicians and their instruments dry. The City has chosen to maintain the concerts of Nâtah big band and Amadou and Mariam. “It’s less pleasant, but we still live the music,” says Fabien Le Guernevé, first deputy in charge of culture. Infrastructure cannot be moved. “Its installation required days of work”, specifies the elected official.
In the followingnoon, the folded concerts had to revise their gauges downwards. The Limur jazz snack has gone from a capacity of 250 spectators to 40, on the second floor of the private mansion. In front of the Almeria concert, the little ones who thought they were enjoying jazz in the grass find it difficult to stay attentive. “It would have been easier outside,” says Anne, mother of two little girls aged 2 and 5. They might have moved.”
The jazz tea party scheduled in the Limur garden has been moved indoors. Only forty people were able to attend the concert in Almeria. And the snack had to wait until the end of the concert. (The Telegram/Marie Sebire)
Adapt to acoustics
Another atmosphere at the springboards. In the auditorium of the Carmes, at the start of the followingnoon, the spectators take advantage of the softness of the armchairs. The L’Autour quintet plays in an intimate atmosphere. “We were lucky, we were able to do soundchecks this morning, appreciates saxophonist Pierre Carbonneaux. I was a little afraid of a rough sound because it really resonates in this chapel. We adapted our concert to play five less often and take advantage of the acoustics for solos”.
A concert that the Lorientais Lysiane and Pierre missed, because of the traffic complicated by the rain. “But that doesn’t prevent you from coming to enjoy the jazz!” “. So Cédric Le Ru promised: “it’s going to play”. Nevertheless.
Planned on the esplanade of the port, the springboard has returned to the Auditorium des Carmes. “We adapted our concert to play less often with five people and take advantage of the acoustics of the chapel for solos”, explains Pierre Carbonneaux, saxophonist. (The Telegram/Marie Sebire)
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