Rio Loco - 13.17 juin 2012

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From top to bottom : Concert on the Pont-Neuf Stage © Ulrich Lebeuf / MYOP, Rio Loco atmosphere © Marie Pierre Cravedi, Open air cinema © Marie Pierre Cravedi, Somos Jugetes de dios y presidentes by de La Torre Brother © Marie Pierre Cravedi, Calle 13 © Marie Pierre Cravedi

Diverse and cosmopolitan, Rio Loco is an absolute must in the round of summer festivals. For years now it has been staging creative affinities and novel multidisciplinary projects and featuring the major artist on the international scene to audiences of almost a hundred thousand.

Since 1995, well-known artists such as Omara Portuondo, Seu Jorge, Orchestra Baobab, Balkan Beat Box, Rachid Taha, Paco de Lucía, Idir, George Clinton or Chavela Vargas have dropped by to sing, dance and party wilth locals and their families, but the Rio Loco program is also an "open mike" where yound performers have a chance to show off their talents to France. For example : the new 'voice' of flamenco Buika, gave her first concert in the Hexagon on the prairie des Filtres in 2007, the delicious Hindi Zahra offered her first French 'Beautiful Tango' to festival-goers in 2009. In 2010, the 'kwela pop' group Desmond & The Tutus, in their first concert in France, blew apart (Rock!) all preconceived ideas about Johannesburg…

On a site decoratively staged each year by an artist from the part of the world invited, the festival is a neverending stream of discovery with contemporary visual creations, shows for the young and midnight movies!

Make a note in your diaries for 13 to 17 June 2012!

In 2012 Rio Loco wil welcome different Portuguese-speaking artists around the theme «Lusofonia» The trip wil take us to Portugal, Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, Sao Tome y Principe, Brazil, Macao and East Timor...

In june more than 200 performers will present the wealth and variety of "Lusofonia" by means of music, visual arts, cinema, gastronomy and crafts.

Non stop party on the riverbank

The heart of the musical and artistic program between 13 and 17 June centres on the Prairie des Filtres, a 6 hectare park on the banks of the Garonne in the very centre of Toulouse.
Hub of Toulouse culture, the Prairie is the green heart and lungs of the town.  

A 'Crazy green' festival

Rio Loco is part of the green citizen movement which helps considerably reduce its ecological impact throughout the year but also during the festival, with its utilisation of returnable, reusable gobelets, a highly selective waste sorting system and low consumption light bulbs on the Prairie itself. During the festival, the EcoLoco venue hosts workshops on recycling where both chidren and adults can transform wast products into works of art !