Festival Blues sur Seine

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 collaboration between the two festivals, French bands and Canadians ones have the opportunity to play their music outside their country, front of a new audience, and by this way they find a unique chance to begin an international career.

Official website : www.festiblues.com

International Blues Challenge in Memphis

As the only French blues festival member of the American Blues Foundation, Blues sur Seine organise each year after consultation of a large panel of judges representative of the French blues scene (magazines, radios, websites...), the selection of the two French bands who will perform at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, probably the most prestigious blues challenge in the world. Since 8 years, 9 french bands succeed to reach the final front of more than 160 blues bands competing from all over the world ! These figures show us the incredible vitality and quality of the French blues scene and encouraged the festival to develop and promote French blues all over the world.

Official website : www.blues.org

European Blues Union

Blues sur Seine is one of the six founding members of the first European Blues Union created in July 2010. Bringing together fifty European blues activists, such as record labels, festivals, booking agency, magazines, radios... from more than fifteen European countries, the European Blues Union will promote activities between people working in the field of Blues, with a view to fostering across-the-border gatherings, encourage the mobility of Blues artists and professionals and the intercultural dialogue. The first public project will be the organization of the first European Blues Challenge in 2011 with 16 national contest winning acts from 16 countries.

Interview of Jean Guillermo, responsible of external relationships of Blues sur Seine Festival, about the European Blues Union.

Official website : www.bluesyou.com

"Keeping The Blues Alive" Award 2008 winner

For all the various aspect of this festival, such as artistic, social or educational one, or the international relationships developed all along the years, the festival won the 2008 Blues Foundation "Keeping The Blues Alive" Award, an international prize which honours the significant contribution of the festival to the Blues world and especially the uniqueness of this festival which succeed to take people "in" the festival with artists performing in schools, hospitals, nursing homes, prisons...

International relationships

For all these activities, Blues-Sur-Seine is considered as a unique and very special festival that brings new and interesting ideas to put in practise for other blues activists. That's why the festival take pleasure to be invited in Berlin (Germany), Barcelona (Spain), Toronto (Canada)... to give advices to develop blues in the school programs, social activities around the blues and other ideas to develop an blues culture.