” I am optimistic ! “. Léo Brou, organizer of the L’Paille à sons festival, is keeping his fingers crossed so that the event can take place on June 4 and 5. The cancellation of the seventh edition last year due to a health crisis, did not affect the determination of the members of the … Read more
Despite the two confinements, the public continued to borrow documents from the Chartres media library. The “winners” are not necessarily those we imagine. Here they are by categories. – Youth books 1 : Tom-Tom and the impossible Nana, by Jacqueline Cohen; 2 : Léonard: Civil engineering, by Bob de Groot; 3 : Leonardo: Genius or … Read more
Every high school student at the time remembers when the single Smells like teen spirit, from Nirvana, landed to win everywhere. On the radio, on TV, in the newspapers, we only talked about this new style and its hero: Kurt Cobain. Weekend playlist: soundtracks to make movies Pessimistic, scruffy, odds and ends, the grunge style … Read more
It’s strange, a theater without an audience. A deserted room, a desperately empty stage, corridors that seem to lead nowhere … The atmosphere, melancholy, solitary, does not seem conducive to creation.And yet … As you listen, you begin to feel the pulsating life, somewhere in the dark passageways of a dozing theater.Once upstairs, in the … Read more
The Chartreuse DJ decked out in a wolf mask, Jérémy Touzeau (aka Nick Stevanson) still cannot exercise his profession, since clubs and nightclubs remain closed. But that does not prevent him from proposing projects. “We have to stay positive! “. It’s kind of his mantra in this time of crisis. Nick Stevanson, DJ of Chartres: … Read more
In 2020, the live performance was at a standstill, but not creation. We don’t really know what will happen in 2021 (we don’t have a crystal ball), but here are fifteen musical releases announced which will mark the year to come. And there will be more! The twenty best albums of the year: and the … Read more
Who remembers it today? But in the mid-1980s, the Rolling Stones empire was on the verge of collapse, due to a lingering disagreement between the two leaders, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. – Each went on his side to try a solo career that has not really been remembered. When vintage music comes back to … Read more
Awarded the prestigious label of “new Dylan” in 1973, at the release of his first album Aquashow, Elliott Murphy was never the huge star he should have been. Question of bad timing or bad luck. – But he remains a great writer. Very attached to France, he moved to Paris thirty years ago and intends … Read more
What will the 2020-2021 cultural season of the Chartres theater look like? We do not know precisely, even if its director, Jérôme Costeplane, reveals for L’Echo some meetings. Hopefully, but also with some caution. The Chartres theaters remain closed this summer: “We do not want to present a discount program” 1. Alex Lutz On April … Read more
They are five and each carry their singular gaze on the performing arts in Chartres. These photographers, pro or amateur, have to operate their devices in the last edition of Chartrestivales, which took place in 2019. What are the financial consequences for the festivals cancelled this summer in Chartres They are selling six of their … Read more