Festival Rio Loco - Les Balkans

GYPSY AND KLEZMER MUSIC TRIO

Entrance fee €5

 

BALKAN BEATS

One of the DJs from the Toulousain association Kumpania Tzigane, with a DJ set of explosive Balkan beats.

Free entry 

Trio of traditional Balkan music, from Bulgaria to Turkey via Macedonia and Greece.

Entrance fee €5

Open piano recital by Toulousain musicians, based on the works of the Romanian composer Georges Enesco.

Free entry

PERCUSSIONS, GALDUKA & ACCORDION 

Entrance fee € 4

DJ MIXES

Reunion evening for the Guernica ADPE association, with DJ mixes providing a panorama of contemporary Central European music 

KLEZMER TRIO (ACCORDION, CLARINET, VIOLIN)

Entrance fee €5

MUSIC FROM HERE AND ELSEWHERE - BARRIO LOCO

These five women, all from the same family, originate from the area around Prague. They now live in Limoux, in the Aude département, but have not forgotten their roots. To rekindle their memories, they never tire of singing, or playing violin and accordion, songs from home or neighbouring countries.  Nostalgic melodies that tell of unrequited love and magnificent weddings.

Tickets: €10 / €8 

GYPSY PUNK & ELECTRO TZIGANE

Boris Viande shares the vibrant, festive music he discovered on his pilgrimages to Eastern Europe: traditional Balkan melodies crossed with gypsy punk and electro tzigane, an impassioned, furious journey …

Entrance fee €5

100% Balkans

A talented trio whose music deserves a quality audience.  Kocka Neba draw their inspiration from the musical traditions of the Balkans, to produce a rich palette of contrasting feelings and emotions.  Upbeat music guaranteed to drive away any sadness or depression.

Entrance fee €10 / €8 / €5

Sextet mixing swing, jazz, and Balkan and klezmer music.

Entrance fee €5

70 performers on stage in a show that pays a magnificent tribute to the Balkans.

Sextet mixing swing, jazz, and Balkan and klezmer music.

Le Cri du Choeur, Virage à l’Est and Vrack take you for a spin to the land of Macedonian seven-beat rhythm, bewitching Bulgarian polyphonies, frenetic Serb Kolos, gypsy madness ... a combination of vocal and instrumental interpretations, unique timbres, all coloured with characteristic passion, whose roots are in countries at the crossroads between East and West, Slav and Mediterranean.  Simply volcanic!

€10, €7 (unemployed, students), €5 (RMI recipients, members) - Information and reservations: le Cri du Choeur, tel.: 05 61 57 89 54 - lecriduchoeur@wanadoo.fr  

A Balkan fireworks display that is as pleasing on the eye as the ear. Complete with dancers and floor-to-ceiling lighting, a crazy atmosphere to take you right through the night. Added ambiance is provided by great warriors of Balkan groove such as :

La Caravane Electro /  Balkan Project Orkestar  /Kassla Datcha /  Vrack  /  Kumpania Beats ( DJ Vinodilo / Kumpania Beats - DJ Pushit / Kumpania Beats - VJ Move Your Fingers) / Valding
VJs Tosfan & Ambient

Entrance fee 10€

Gypsy Bus from Toulouse to Les Vents du Sud : + 33 (0)9.51.38.61.38

CONCERT AND OUTDOOR FEAST - BARRIO LOCO

Culinary gypsy brass band

With their feet in the south of France and their heads in the Balkans, this band of eight bon vivant musicians decided to go out and conquer the entire human race.  Their recipe: Snails, tubas, onions, trumpet, percussion, tomatoes, saxophones, fresh herbs and clarinet.

The Goulamas add their own sauce to the music.  The Balkan style suits them perfectly: festive and animated.  Tunes from Romania, Yugoslavia and elsewhere, served gypsy style.  Just take all the ingredients, mix well, arrange them and you're ready to go!

Free entry 

ACOUSTIC CONCERT

These guys and their twirling dancer just want to share with you their passion for Bulgarian, Macedonian, Greek, Turkish and klezmer music.

Entrance fee 5 €

Kocka Neba draw their inspiration from the musical traditions of the Balkans.  Songs and rhythms that are both nostalgic and joyful, that awaken our senses, bewitch and transport us far away to a land of hope, excitement and dreams.  Try and resist the desire to dance, weep and love!!

Free entry

OPEN-AIR CONCERT - BARRIO LOCO

Babbling violins and lamenting accordion, with hints of both joy and nostalgia.  This talented, merry group are proof that gypsy and Yiddish music can innovate and digress, without losing the essence of its soul.  Les Yeux Noirs, founded by the two Slabiak brothers, have been perfecting their music for several years, avoiding all the usual clichés.  A clever choice of themes in their repertoire mixes new compositions and reworked standards, played with unbridled imagination and character.

Free entry

OPEN-AIR CONCERT

An incendiary groove, a stimulating energy that will thrill fans of Goran Bregovic's music, plus anyone else with ears open and bodies ready to rock to the sound of this zany Balkan brass music.  Formed in 1999, the group has a single watchword: no matter what, whether you've lost your cat, your keys or the love of your life, keep on partying.  There's no point in crying, just dance, move your body.  Dazzling brass, bouncy banjo, animated percussion will help even the most self-conscious to let go.  Did we say it was Balkan music?  Yes definitely, but also rock, hip-hop, tarantella and tango, a mass of "gypsified" ingredients.

Co-produced by Rio Loco & Escambiar

Free entry

Paris Balkans Janko Nilovic Trio is a Balkan jazz rock formation that have been going since the early 1970s, with Janko Nilovic on piano, Philippe Selve on bass and Vincent Legris playing drums.
Don't miss this concert under any circumstances, the multiple tones of their music convey such emotion and unrestrained groove that it's hard to believe it comes from a mere trio!!

Free entry

In advance of the concert to be given the next day on the Prairie des Filtres, the Rio Loco festival is offering you a sneak preview of the latest creation from the extraordinary pianist Bojan Z, in the intimate setting of the Mandala Jazz Club. Attention: as the number of places is extremely limited, you are required to reserve in advance by email.

 

Free entry depending on prior reservation by email, only to bojan-z@lemandala.com 

 

CINEMA-CONCERT - BARRIO LOCO

Reviving the joys of the distant past, when cinema was merely flickering black and white images animated by the swing music of a solo pianist, this performance pays tribute to Ladislas Starewitch, pioneer of animated cinema, born to a Polish family in Moscow in 1882, who settled in France after fleeing the Revolution.  The group Poum Tchack provides the dark swing.

Free entry

also:
Cinema devoted to the Balkans at the ABC on 11 and 14 June.
14 June: cinema performance accompanied by the brass band Taraf Goulamas
Cinema rates €5/€4.20/€3 (group rates available for 6 or more people)

ACOUSTIC CONCERT

They don't take themselves too seriously, they just love entertaining people, and getting them to dance. And when the music stops, there's practically a riot!

Free entry

 

Head east with BALKAN SWING: Romanian ballads and dances, a repertoire crammed with Balkan Tarafs, brass band music and Russian gypsy tunes.
BALKAN SWING is an amateur group from the Ateliers Musicaux, a non-profit making music school in the St Cyprien district of Toulouse.

Free entry

CONCERTS

Les Siestes Electroniques and Rio Loco continue their collaboration for the festival's 14^th edition at the Nakache summer pool.  The concept is quite simple, you just buy an entrance ticket for the pool, bring a swimsuit and towel, and relax and enjoy the music beside the enormous Nakache pool.

On the programme for 21 and 22 June: Cosmin, Camil and Minus, three Romanian artists closely involved with the excellent Rokolectiv festival, who will be entertaining visitors to the Nakache pool with their smooth electronic tones. Marek, a young Toulousain artist will complete this delightful line-up. 

Saturday 21 June
17h - Minus (live)
18h - Camil (DJ set)

Sunday 22 June
17h - Marek (live)
18h - Cosmin (DJ set)

Swimming pool entrance fee

CONCERT PLEIN AIR

Three groups on top form to celebrate this annual national event in style, three enlightened views of gypsy and Balkan music.  Crazy about Django, Swing 39 swears by Manouche-style swing, reviving music by the master and some of his disciples.  A troupe of 13 musicians with springs attached to their feet, Vrack have created their own brilliant universe stretching from Ireland to Afghanistan, bringing you the best in enlivened eastern music.  As for the Anakronic Electro Orkestra, they could probably be classified as "new klezmer" if their music wasn't quite so eclectic, with its fusion of whirling klezmer accordion and electro, jungle and hip-hop sounds.

Free entry

True to the proverb "the gypsy dances like the song sings", Loli Pabai lead us on a merry dance, combining their beautiful, joyful, nostalgic singing with the gypsy frenzy of their brass instruments.  It's the marriage of two strong, deep, sister voices, ranging from mezzo to high-pitched.  Responding to the vocals are the energetic pairing of double bass and drums, the resolutely jazzy improvisations of the trumpet player, and the authentic warbling melodies of the saxophone.

Free entry

GREEK MUSIC CONCERT AND OUTDOOR FEAST - BARRIO LOCO

19:00: Drinks
20:00: Greek dinner (€12) - prior reservation required, or picnic basket
22:00: Concert of traditional and dance music

The Greeks call their folk music 'demotic' (dimotiki moussiki) from the ancient word 'dimos' meaning people. It encompasses both the rural world of mainland Greece and the maritime world of the islands.  This will be a festive evening, accompanied by musicians making the journey from Greece especially for the occasion, as well as members from our own region's Greek community, with the "Horizon Grecs" association, who are likely to persuade you to join in with the dancing in the Cultural Centre car park. 

Cultural Centre car park

Free entry

With the support of the "Horizons Grecs" association

OPEN AIR CONCERT

Riding high on the success of his earlier projects (Labesse, Gnawa N'Joum, DJ Click & Rona Hartner), and always leaving a lasting memory in the ears and feet of his audience (WOMEX 2006, Transmusicales, Les Escales, Exit Fest in Serbia, etc.), DJ CLICK returns with his latest show, FLAVOUR.
For this new musical odyssey around the Mediterranean, where flavours from the East and the Balkans intertwine with Electro, DJ CLICK combines his frenetic mixes with dizzying improvisations from gypsy and klezmer musicians, and acrobatic moves from eastern dancers.  No less than six artists on stage truly bring this show to life, worlds away from a traditional "DJ Set". 

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Free entry