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About Blues sur Seine
For the past twelve years, to the west of Paris, the Seine takes on an air of the Mississippi. For two weeks, several venues around Mantes-la-Jolie open their doors to renowned musicians and the up and coming talents of this style of music, a good deal more diverse than it might seem. More than fifty groups and musicians on the stages to the west of Paris bear witness to the eternal renaissance of the Blues, showing us that this genre has more and more offspring. Each year in November, an entire region lives to the beat of the Blues sur Seine Festival. At the heart of Mantes in Yvelines and o...
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Artistic area
With the subtitle "Spirit and Colours of the Blues", the Festival produces a wide program based on blues, rock blues, rhythm blues, gospel, or folk, including French artists who have got the spirit and feeling of the blues, with more than fifty venues of musicians coming from all over the...
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Social area
Under the title of "Meetings for everybody", concerts and other activities related to the blues are done in homeless shelters, for ex-alcoholics, illiterate women, children with mental illness, nursing homes, physical rehabilitation centres, children in care of local administration due to ...
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Educational and School Area
Under the title of "Importance of music practice, performing arts and musical genres discovery", various activities take place in primary and secondary school before and during the Festival. Primary school activities include an introduction harmonica playing and singing for about...
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International cultural initiatives
A twinning with the Montreal Blues Festival (Canada) In order to promote French speaking blues in the world, the Blues sur Seine festival is twinning with the Montreal Blues Festival in Canada (Québec) to promote exchanges of artists and groups, both new and professional ones. Thanks to this collab...
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The Mississippi Corporate Club
The Mississippi Club is the name of the Blues sur Seine Festival corporate club. It brings together a wide range of business leaders of the west area of Paris and local authorities with cultural, social and educational values. Founded in 1999 in order to federate local industry around a project wit...
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