Mizu & Mizi
First band on the open stage!
Mizu & Mizi is a duo of two close friends with a shared passion for folkmusic and dance. They have developed a unique repertoire. Similar to their country of origin, Belgium, they are influenced by melodieus from North and South Europe.
Dries and Klarremieken share a mix of dynamic and more intimate arrangements.
Dries - diatonic accordeon
Klarremieken - clarinet & diatonic accordeon
Feather and Fox
Feather and Fox is a Belgian-German balfolk duo. Victor and Christiane met during a summer in Berlin on the banks of the Spree. From the very beginning, the duo has played for dancers and is inspired by their energy. Playfully and sensitively, they explore the sound possibilities in the interplay of the twelve strings of mandolin and cello, creating a unique sound that is both feather-light and energy-driven.
Christiane Bisitz – cello, voice
Victor Lekeu – mandolin, percussion
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Dekolaz
Dekolaz is a bluish universe into which we gently dive under the rolling sounds of percussion, harp and accordion. We swim past the point where dance and improvised music intersect and let ourselves be carried away by their stream of mineral groove and colourful voices to their hot glowing sounds. In the depths of their rhythm, something new emerges from skins, strings and reeds. We become a part of it and look forward to a nuanced ball with original compositions inspired by maloya, jazz, neo-trad and forró.
Camille Heim - celtic harp, vocals, percussions
Marc Lacaille - bass guitar, vocals, percussions
Cédric Pierini - diatonic accordion, vocals, percussions
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Marion & Steve
Marion and Steve play exclusively their own compositions, inspired by traditional European dance music with influences of other musical elements, in particular from classical music, jazz and musette. Their music offers a variety of sounds, attuned to the characteristics of the different dances, from quiet and romantic to rhythmic and upbeat. The melodies accompany the dancers into the world of emotions.
Marion Ludwig – accordion
Steve Ellis – clarinet, accordion, piano
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Bruno Le Tron is known for his compositions rich in musicality and inimitable swing, his long-time companion Franck Fagon for his energetic improvisations and sense of melodic phrasing. More recently, Pablo Molard has joined the group, enriching the sounds of accordion, saxophone and clarinet with his guitar. The three acolytes often come together for workshops that focus on the individual musicians' instruments or on ensemble work.
With their modern music inspired by traditional repertoires, they will seduce you all night long to dances from Brittany and central France.
Bruno Le Tron - diatonic accordion
Franck Fagon - clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone
Alan Vallée - twelve-string guitar
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Duo Nello
The Duo Nello, is a band that likes to play for dancing. Although they are still young, they will play all their cards to delight your ears and legs: vocals, accordion, bagpipes, Irish whistle, clarinet, guitar...
Their repertoire, which comes from the traditional music of France, also reveals their personal notes, rich in their own compositions. They will take you on a journey through emotions and make you tap your feet, waltz or lose your head.
Claire Dubonnet - vocals, clarinette
Gabriel Chiapello - diatonic accordion, guitar
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Vandenabeele Knapen
Despite a busy schedule, we are delighted that Wouter Vandenbeele and Jeroen Knapen have agreed to play for us in Colditz. Closely connected to the folk scene, but always open to other horizons (Hiraeth, Tamala, The Chai Connection, etc.), these two great musicians return to the dance floor to our greatest delight. As if by magic on guitar and violin, they take the audience into a delicate and energetic dance.
Wouter Vandenabeele - violin
Jeroen Knapen - guitar
l'Air Inconnu
L'air inconnu is at the service of today's traditional dance, curious ears and wild and domestic animals or plants. Their compositions and arrangements of traditional themes are inspired by the emotions and strong sensations they have experienced at balls and festivals: The joy of encounters, intimate poetry, virulence of sound, the energy of moving bodies, collective trance and much more.
Fabien Bucher - guitar, mandoline, vocals
Dani Velasco - violin, vocals
Sylvain Pool - accordion, guitar, vocals
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Tribal Jâze
Tribal Jâze - these are acoustic vagabonds who take their ‘trash, trad & roots’ sound to balls, festivals and, let's face it, any occasion, and do everything they can with their groove to earn a few peanuts.
Take a stroll through their world, where every note is a joke told by an accordion and every rhythm is a dance step in an imaginary gavotte. It becomes a journey to which seriousness has been relinquished at the cloakroom. Everything passes, but the party remains!
Cédric Hergault - percussions
François Badeau - diatonic accordion
Marc Buvry - baritone saxophone
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Duo Tanghe Coudroy
A guitar and an accordion. Two night birds that will make you dance!
A bal folk full of energy, finesse and closeness to the dancers.A convivial and warm moment with the freshness of spontaneity and the pleasure of melodious composed music.
When the two met for the first time at a festival in Belgium in 2003, the session lasted all night.Since then, they have played regularly at concerts, bal folk's and other festivals centred around traditional music and dances.Their repertoire initially found a particular resonance in the Breton repertoire to which they are both attached. After Martin's stay in Sweden, the duo's approach evolved into a bal folk deeply influenced by Nordic culture, immersing us in an incomparable world.
Aurélien Tanghe – guitar
Martin Coudroy – accordion, vocals
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Marie Paulette
Marie Paulette is the desire to pack a suitcase to see what is being made elsewhere.
She is a soup mixer for everything.
A pressure cooker from the old, boiling hot from the new.
That's what you hear in the neighbourhood bistro on a Sunday lunchtime,and then twist your ear in the far corner of a garage.
Marie Paulette is the infamilière that everyone knows.
Vincent Evrard - electric guitar, samples, diphonic vocals
Coline Ledoux - diatonic accordion, vocals
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Clume
Three voices to dance to songs of love and revolt.
Voices of nothing, of everything, of women and craftswomen. Breath of the earth, of flesh, of iron. They search, turn, engage, with their feet and then with our hands.
Clume rewrites and recomposes songs in Occitan and French. They sway in the movement of words and dances.
Lucile Guirimand - vocals, percussion
Anouck Alarcon - vocals, percussion
Jessy Ragey - voice, percussion, tamburredhu
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Femti Fem
Femti Fem are the 55 strings that are united in this quartet.
Instruments whose sounds are rubbed by sympathy or resound, intertwining with each other, voices that unite in songs from the Nordic folk tradition, dance music from Sweden and Norway, to melodies arranged by the quartet, and compositions inspired by them.
The whole thing is driven by four musicians who are eager for Scandinavian sounds and rhythms...
Mélanie Brelaud - hardanger fiddle, violin
Coline Genet - violin
Chloé Chaumeron - nyckelharpa, violin, viola
Clémence Lenoël - violoncello
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You!
Five days of music, from the beginning to the end, from the first up to the last floor. And you right in the middle of it all or only for you. Music and ensemble workshops will be awaiting you. Rehearsal rooms will want to be filled and fulfilled with the sound of your ideas.
Alas, take your flutes, hurdy gurdies and accordions, violins, guitars and pianos, rattles, boxes and spoons! Take your feet, hands and voices and make music! For you, for us, for everyone; from breakfast 'til session! :-)
