It is one of the pillars of the Trans Musicales de Rennes who packed his bags. Present since the first edition in 1979, the co-founder of the festival Béatrice Macé has announced that she is leaving the organizing team. The reason ? His election to the regional council of Brittany. Member of the list of socialist Loïg Chesnais-Girard, Béatrice Macé became vice-president for culture, cultural rights and artistic education on Friday. "The board of directors of the ATM takes note today of the decision of Béatrice Macé to leave her functions of general management within the association Trans Musicales", indicated the president Samia Djitli on the social networks.
Aged 63, the newly elected leaves a ship that she had largely helped to build more than forty years ago.
Legend has it that it was she who pushed for the festival to take place in December, and no longer in June.
The reason for this choice was practical.
In June, many students were caught up in exams.
In 1979, Béatrice Macé, Jean-Louis Brossard and Hervé Bordier, who left for Toulouse to found the Rio Loco festival there, created the Trans Musicales to highlight the local scene.
"At the time, we were a bunch of friends passionate about music who met at the bar de l'Épée and at all the concerts in Rennes", recently told Jean-Louis Brossard, historical programmer still stationed at the Trans.
The pair had been knighted in the Legion of Honor last year.
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- Trans Musicales (@TransMusicales) July 3, 2021
Béatrice Macé is not the only one elected to leave her functions in the “civil” for a political career.
Appointed vice-president for student life, higher education and research, Olivier David left the presidency of the University of Rennes 2.
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