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With his high-pitched voice and unique stage presence, Jimmy Somerville left his mark on the 1980s, making us dance to forget. First with Bronski Beat, then The Communards, and then with his solo career, he has had a lasting influence on British pop without ever betraying his own identity. Meet a pop and gay icon whose hits "Smalltown Boy" and "Don't Leave Me This Way" remain timeless. 

A high-pitched voice on new wave hits, a stage presence that's both charismatic and discreet, Jimmy Somerville arrived in the 80’s like an elf whose mission was to make us dance to forget. But forget what? Survival of the fittest in the working-class suburbs of Glasgow? The life of a gay teenager in a world that didn't give him any way out? His introduction to music, London and the New Wave? The tragedy of AIDS, which killed his friends when he was at the prime of his youth? The singer's songs are undoubtedly about all these things. A fight for respect and for the right to have a serene life that he has never been willing to give up, despite all the obstacles and hazards, some of them sordid. 40 years after his first hits, he is still here, with his exceptional voice and is still true to himself. And yet, his career path could have led him away from his origins or sidelined him from the stage.

In 2022, the series Stranger Things propelled Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill released in 1985, to the top of the charts. At 63 years old, Kate Bush has never been more popular and continues to intrigue with her strangeness and musical genius. How can her enduring allure be explained?

An avant-garde artist, the star with theatrical performances, inspired choreography, and a sublime soprano voice is often cited as a major influence by a new generation of artists. How has she, known as the "sorceress of sound," managed to transcend eras and trends, remaining as modern and fascinating as ever?

In his infectiously exuberant new musical, Jérôme Savary takes us on a voyage round the life of percussionist Chano Pozo, who rose to fame playing alongside the American jazz greats.

The show is acted and sung in Spanish, amidst a riot of colour, feathers and sequins, to the rhythm and melody of a carefully-chosen repertoire of Afro-Cuban music (aficionados will recognise Manteca, Cubana Be and Cubana Bop) and the stage is shared by thirty or so Cuban dancers, vocalists and musicians, including the sizzling female dance troupe "Les Mulatresses du Feu".
The narrative revolves around a black American saxophonist who turns out to be Charlie Parker's grandson (played by Allen Hoist). He travels to Havana to try and recapture Chano's spirit, to "feel the vibe". Through the people he encounters, Chano gradually comes alive again. In a series of six colourful tableaux, we watch him play and dance and finally lament his death. The script takes a leap in time here, a stitch in space there - shifting from present-day Havana to 1940s' Cuba and Harlem and back again, with an unexpected detour via a club in deepest Alaska - and the show pounds along at a breakneck pace, thanks to an outstanding collection of musicians including conga-drummer Miguel Anga Diaz, veteran Wilfred Fernando Vicente, alias Chongito, who used to play with Dizzy Gillespie, vocalist Aramis Galindo Sotomayor, and the thoroughly wonderful 86-year-old Juana "La Cubana" Bacallao.

When the Australian duo’s indie pop, folk, captivating retro and bohemian music meet the historic heart of the City of Carcassonne, it’s a magical evening tinged with exquisite emotion.

Ten years after their worldwide success first album, Angus and Julia Stone reunites again on stage for their latest album « Snow » European tour.
 
 

Anouar Brahem’s beautiful and captivating oud sound brings weightlessness to the human soul.

He pursues his universalist quest with a new project  « Blue Maqam » firmly tuned towards jazz and its values of openness, alongside Jazz legends Dave Holland (double bass), Jack DeJohnette (drums) and Django Bates (piano) at the Philharmonie de Paris.
 
 

Pianist born in Kingston, Monty Alexander is a virtuoso with multiple secrets. Playing solo or in groups, he impresses audiences. He explores the world of Jazz, swing, bebop, blues, calypso and reggae, and has created a style of his own.

For him, music is a heart beat. He plays with emotion, intelligence, humor and sensibility. During this unique moment, we are transported with his joyful swing and fizzing grooves, influenced by Afro-american Jazz of Harlem and reggae from Jamaica.
This concert at the Seine Musical is exceptional. It is extremely rare for Monty Alexander to do a solo performance. We are in for an evening full of surprises.

New Orleans’s gifted man celebrates 100 years of jazz through a heavenly and transgressive trilogy «The Centennial Trilogy».
 

The young trumpet player has become in a few years the emblematic figure of a jazzmen’s generation capable of shaking up the genre’s conventions, of challenging it to new horizons and a new audience. No doubt, at 33 years old, Christian Scott sees beyond the normal scope. One record after the other, he even seems more and more determined to rewrite the rules of jazz with hybridization, avant-garde and explorations. In this year celebrating Jazz centennial, history has provided Scott with an ideal counterpoint to tradition.
 
 

Filmed during the Saint-Germain-des-Prés festival at the « Maison des Océans » in the heart of the « quartier latin » Paris, France on the 19th of may 2017.
 

“Cohen is a multicultural jazz musician, among whose ancestors is Miles Davis. Like Davis, he can make the trumpet a vehicle for uttering the most poignant human cries.”
Ben Ratliff, The New York Times
In 2016 alone, Cohen was named “Best Foreign Artist” by Jazz Magazine France, while Into the Silence was awarded “Best Album of the Year” by TSF Jazz and Academie du Jazz, and in the top 20 albums of the year by JazzTimes. For four years running, Cohen has been voted a Rising Star-Trumpet in the Down Beat Critics Poll. 
 
 

Winner 1st prize of the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2015, Dmitry Masleev is solicited by the biggest orchestras in the world. The « Piano à Lyon » Festival in Lyon, France had the priviledge to invite the pianist at the beginning of a very promising career and for a recital that highlights the greatest scores of the repertoire.
 

This hybrid film project mixing Dmitry’s live performance footage and fiction is a poetic illustration of his performance, a pure narrative inspired by his music. Masleev’s subtle touch carries us away in his musical universe ... in his dreams ...
 
 

A suprising performance shared by Lakshminarayana Subramaniam, great carnatic violin player, and Ballaké Sissoko, kora player from Mali.

Creating a unique concert bringing together two musical traditions that will leave the audience fascinated and dazzled by the techniques and emotions. 
 
 

Lee Ranaldo, one of the former pillars of Sonic Youth, released a new solo album, Electric Trim in September 2017 on Mute. The album was recorded in New York and Barcelona in collaboration with producer Raul Refree Fernandez.

Other collaborators include Sharon Van Etten, who sings six of the songs in this latest album, Kid Millions (aka Man Forever), as well as his longtime friend and collaborator Nels Cline (Wilco). Ranaldo collaborated with New York author Jonathan Lethem (Motherless Brooklyn / The Fortress of Solitude) for the lyrics of six of his songs. Filmed at the Epicerie Moderne, Lyon France in March 2018, Lee’s stage performance takes us at the crossroads of Neil Young and Wilco where we find a Lee Ranaldo sometimes psychedelic, folk rock, but always free-minded.
 
 

She is a musician with many talents… classical singer and pianist by career, daughter of a guitar player with gypsy influences, Macha Gharibian says is loud and clear « I have never been scared of coming up with improbable mixtures ! »

Rather good news for the audience : an opportunity to dream, touched by a crystal tune and a warm voice, this unique cocktail of Jazz, folk, pop music and traditional Armenian tunes is savored with immeasurable musical pleasure.