- Following the presidential address on Monday evening, many festivals, planned this summer in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, were forced to throw in the towel.
- Among which: the Nuits de Fourvière, Jazz à Vienne, Musilac and Printemps de Pérouges.
The day after the presidential speech, the cancellations rained in cascade. Without surprise. The organizers of the main festivals in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region announced on Tuesday that they must reluctantly give up their projects.
The stands of the ancient theater of Vienna, where the Jazz festival in Vienna was to take place from June 25 to July 11, will remain empty this summer. The 40th edition will wait until 2021. “Our priority remains the health and safety of our festival-goers, artists and teams. Consequently, we are in solidarity with the measures taken by the public authorities which appear to be the most reasonable and the most protective, ”they explained in a press release. Over 1,000 artists were expected over the period. Without forgetting the "hundreds of providers", "suppliers", "intermittent", "seasonal". In total, more than 400 people working on site every day.
A thought for @jazzavienne canceled this summer which offers me this sky and this panorama for ten years that I cover this #festival pic.twitter.com/gyFGDznqe9
- Berthet Clément (@BerthetClement) April 14, 2020Sting, ThomYork, Rammstein, Paul McCartney
Same sadness, thirty kilometers away. In Lyon, the long-awaited Nuits de Fourvière festival, which lasts two months and which was due to start on June 2, has also been canceled. No Thom Yorke this year on the heights of the city. Nor by Alain Souchon, Agnès Obel or Liam Gallagher. The 60 shows scheduled actually fall into the water. "In 2021 the festival will be 75 years old, we will resolutely engage with artists towards the future to perpetuate this meeting created in 1946", soberly declares Dominique Delorme, the director of the festival, who has been moving heaven and earth for a few weeks to maintain the event.
Following the arrangements announced by the President of the Republic on April 13, the Nuits de Fourvière festival is canceled.
This edition was to be presented from June 2 to July 31.
The conditions of this cancellation will be specified in the coming days.
The Printemps de Pérouges, which was to host Sting, Têtes Raides, Christophe Maé and Michel Jonasz this summer, is also forced to throw in the towel. "We are frustrated, sad not to vibrate with you. We think of you dear audience but we also think of your health. It is a lesson in wisdom that this test sends us, ”said Marie Rigaud, director of the event, in a video posted on social networks. And to add that the conditions of cancellation or postponement will be specified in the coming days, online on the website of the event.
In the aftermath, the concerts of Paul Mc Cartney and the Red Chili Peppers, planned in the OL park respectively on June 7 and June 20, also fall by the wayside. Just like that of the Rammstein group (July 9 and 10).
Uncertainty for Sound Nights
The shores of Lac du Bourget in Aix-les-Bains will not welcome Musilac festival-goers either. The event, which was to be held from July 11 to 14, and which announced the coming of Angèle, Catherine Ringer, Lenny Kravitz, Metronomy, -M-, Mika, Supertramp, Nada Surf or Iggy Pop, is also canceled.
There remains however an uncertainty which hangs over the Nuits Sonores electronic music festival. Postponed for the first time at the end of July (July 22-26), the event could take place. Or not. The organizers have not yet communicated their intentions and the possibilities of continuing the festivities.
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