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During confinement, festival cancellations cascaded. No event of more than 5,000 people can be held before September. However, while the coronavirus epidemic is slowing down in France, some festival organizers are considering keeping these events in very different forms than expected. On Europe 1 Sunday, Emmanuel Hoog, president of the great pop-rock festival Rock en Seine, announced the possibility that the event would be "broadcast in prime time by a large television channel".
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The idea would be that Rock en Seine be held "both with the public in the park and then maybe it will be broadcast in prime time by a large television channel," he said. "This is one of the hypotheses on which we are working," continues Emmanuel Hoog.
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Other alternatives are being discussed, he said, such as "cancel or postpone for 2021". "We are currently working on the reorganization and adaptation of what we imagined in 2020 for 2021", details Emmanuel Hoog, who would like an event to take place anyway.
"Artists, musicians live in front of an audience"
"We do not want the doors of the Saint-Cloud park to be closed on the last weekend of August and a few days before the start of the school year in a time that will be the epilogue of summer", specifies- he. Emmanuel Hoog would thus like to create a "live show" which would provide "the presence of artists, live musicians in front of an audience".
The president of Rock en Seine, which brings together an average of 40,000 festival-goers per day over several days, says he has "the hope of being able to do something strong, symbolic, special or even historic". However, the project is still in its infancy since, according to Emmanuel Hoog, "it is difficult to project ourselves on the capacities and the conditions for gathering that we will have" at the end of August.
Rock en Seine, which takes place every year in the park of Saint-Cloud, in the Parisian suburbs, should take place on September 29, 30 and 1.