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For four years, the group Sound From, which brings together four cultural institutions of Rennes, benefits from the Trans Musicales to offer the prisoners of the prison center of Vézin a concert, in prison. This year, it was the group Guiss Guiss Bou Bess who went to meet the inmates and their supervisors. Lights, platforms, dancers and technical team ... Once past the innumerable security doors, everything is done to offer detainees a concert as indoor. One hour of traditional Senegalese music in electronic version. Europe 1 was on hand for this unusual concert.
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Most of the detainees remained seated but two of them did not hesitate to come and dance with the group. They were then among the first to go to them, at the end of the concert, to exchange. "It takes us out of our routine, from our daily life, it's a pleasure!", Rejoices one of the spectators. Some are more curious than others. "I have lived in Africa for five years, I have always been attracted by this culture," says another detainee. "To find these rhythms here in prison, that made me leave my environment".
Inmate poems set to music
After a change of scene, three prisoners took the microphone. Each came to present a poem, written beforehand during a workshop and set to music by a harpist. In the room, two spectators wonder if they could do the same. "You leave me an hour in a room, when you come back I would have done four choreographies," jokes an inmate. "But if you leave me with a paper, I would not have written anything on it." A concert that has made more than one dream of a future career in music, once freedom is found.