A normal edition, "therefore exceptional", explains Boris Vedel, the director of the festival.

Le Printemps de Bourges, which will take place from Tuesday 19 to Sunday 24 April, returns to its traditional format after two truncated editions.

For fans of this meeting which launches the festival season, it is a small event.

But the organizers are still wondering if the public will fill all the rooms as before.

"We are coming back with a stronger positioning on creation and emergence", explains Boris Vedel who promises that "we will be able to cross a festive city again".

For the past two years, if concerts have taken place, in symbolic gauge in 2020 and limited in 2021, the city was, as he says, “empty and sad” due to health constraints in the face of Covid-19.

30% less attendance?

Le Printemps, with nearly "150 artists" programmed this year, has the particularity of attracting professionals from the music industry.

But there are also concerns about the influx of the public (200,000 people for the last real edition in 2019).

The boss of Printemps fears “overall, 30% less attendance, which makes the financial balance fragile but should not take away the joy of meeting again”.

This is an observation made by the entire music industry: cultural consumption habits have been turned upside down by the health crisis.

“People have gotten used to going to cinemas, theaters, concerts, analyzes Boris Vedel.

And in the young population, some have learned to party differently and do not have the festival reflex, there is work to be done on that”.

The boss of Printemps also notes a brake in the “working and family” strata of the public with “a feeling of loss of purchasing power, a feeling accentuated by the presidential election”.

From Houellebecq to Dutronc

However, everything comes together for a great party with a cocktail of headliners, young talents and special shows created for the occasion.

Among the locomotives, we find Clara Luciani, Juliette Armanet, Eddy de Pretto, Gaëtan Roussel, Dutronc father and son for the first time on a joint tour, IAM, or Vianney.

Among the young talents, we can mention Crystal Murray or Kalika.

And then there are the surprises like the singer Apple, accompanied by the Quebecer Safia Nolin, who will reinterpret the repertoire of Céline Dion while Béatrice Dalle and Jarvis Cocker, among others, are announced for the farewell to the scene of Brigitte Fontaine.

Without forgetting the writer Michel Houellebecq, who will declaim his poems to the music of DJ Traumer.

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