Festival « Les Troubadours chantent l’art roman »

 

From May to September, churches, abbeys and priories throughout the Languedoc Roussillon will echo to the music and poetry of modern troubadours from around the world.

The word "troubador" is believed to come from the Provençal "trobar", meaning; "to find or compose in verse" and originally referred to lyrical poets, minstrels and musicians who lived in Provençe and Catalonia, or northern Italy in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries.

The public was tired of hymns, and droning chronicles. These new stories were sung to music on strange, new musical instruments, brought back from the Crusades. Satire, love, politics, tales of bravery, Professional singers who performed work penned by a troubadour were called jongleurs, and they might be accompanied by ioculators (jesters) and ystriones (actors).

 

Most of the groups in the festival tend to be men.

 

Click here for full programme in Languedoc Roussillon, and to hear excerpts from the artistes.

 

 

CONCERTS IN THE PYRÉNÉES-ORIENTALES

 

Saturday 18th May at 21 h

Terrats - Église Saint-Julien et Sainte-Baselisse
Rifa i Passi

Saturday 15th June at 18 h 00

Maury - Chapelle Saint-Roch
Junko Ueda et Will Offermans

Sunday 7th July at 18 h

Boule d’Amont - Prieuré de Serrabona
Demazadi

Tuesday 9th July at 18 h

Boule d’Amont - Prieuré de Serrabona
Trouveurs de Mots

Sunday 14th July at 18h

Arboussols – Prieuré de Marcevol
Franc Bardou - Thierry Gomar - Maayan

Wednesday 31st July at 21h

Villelongue dels Monts – Notre Dame del Vilar
Duo Mouratoglou - Erransa

Saturday 24th August at 21h

Catllar – Chapelle Sainte-Marie-de-Riquer
Junko Ueda et Will Offermans

Saturday 5th October August at 21h

Collioure – Église Sainte Marie des Anges
Rifa i Passi

More info 09 72 95 90 46 or 06 19 10 92 89 Email: postmaster@festival-troubadoursartroman.fr

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