The organizers have identified "56,000 participants, including 32,000 spectators at the Expo Park and 2,200 professionals".

Eighty-four groups of 34 different nationalities and more than 500 musicians participated in the event, despite the cancellations related to the health context and traffic restrictions in some countries.

Eleven beginner groups have also benefited from artistic support from professionals, the objective being to help them improve their practice on stage.

"It's great to have succeeded in doing it, that practically all the artists were there. It was an absolutely formidable teamwork", reacted Sunday Jean-Louis Brossard, founder of the festival.

For the first time since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the festival found its audience after a virtual edition in 2020, with mandatory health passes and mask, an edition particularly scrutinized by the authorities due to the resurgence of the epidemic of Covid-19.

The mask deposit, posted in the halls of the Expo Park, was not very followed by festival-goers, especially on the last evening.

Asked about the rave party which took place overnight from Saturday to Sunday in an abandoned hangar in Rennes and brought together up to 2,000 people, the organizers admitted that there had "often been free in the past -parties during the Trans ", without commenting further.

The organizers have already made an appointment with their public for the 44th edition which will be held from December 7 to 11, 2022.

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