Les Massiliades
Les Massiliades is a music festival created by the students of French engineering school École Centrale Marseille. It takes place each spring in the city of Marseille, in the south-east of France.
History
- 2008 : First edition of the Massiliades, on saturday May 5, at the Nautica.
- 2009 : Second edition will be held on April 17
Purpose
The main idea of the Massiliades is to highlight the diversity of today's music and to allow its audience to gain access to musical genres they didn't properly know, in the enjoyable context of Marseille's spring time.
2008
On its first year, the Massiliades was set on saturday, May 5 at the restaurant Le Nautica, in the eighth district of Marseille. All along the afternoon, the listeners heard the creations of six amateur student bands, while looking at the Mediterranean Sea from the restaurant's terrace. One of those bands was rewarded a studio recording session.
Around 10 PM, the French band SMOOF went on stage performing some kind of pop- and jazz-inspired reggae.
And then, after midnight, DJ's animated a student party.
2009
External links
- Festival website
- Festival page on myspace
fr:Les Massiliades