Another massive music festival in France this weekend, with over 260,000 people attending the Vieilles Charrues festival.
This year was the 20th anniversary of the festival held annually in Carhaix, Finistère, in Brittany.
Headline acts over the four days included Scorpions, Snoop Dogg, Chemical Brothers and Lou Reed.
Other acts playing included Pulp, Yelle, Stromae, PJ Harvey and Kaiser Chiefs.
Its interesting to see how wide the bill is in comparison to UK festivals. It would be very unlikely that a band like Scorpions would top the bill at a comparable event like T in the Park, or that acts like Congotronics V Rockers woule get the chance to perform in an event outside a specialist world music event.
Its very much to the credit of the open-minded attitude of the French music lover.
Congotronics Vs Rockers are an especially open-minded act, combining musicians from the likes of Konono No. 1 from the Democratic Republic of Congo with artists like Deerhoof and Juana Molina, in an international collaboration that is both artistically worthy and very funky indeed.
The gigs by the artists involved follows the release of the Tradi-Mods vs Rockers album released on Crammed Discs from Belgium, released in the wake of the original Congotronics releases earlier by the label.
Congotronics - Live (Vieilles Charrues 2011) by sourdoreille
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