Du Haut des Airs takes off at Voix de fête
For the third year running, the Catalyse talent gas pedal is supporting the Du Haut des Airs project, which promotes and exports contemporary chanson in the French-speaking world.
First stop: the Festival Voix de Fête, from March 14 to 17, 2013. On the brand-new "top stage" at Chat Noir, audiences will embark on an interactive flight to discover 60 fresh songs and four young talents from Switzerland, France, Belgium and Canada. Every lunchtime for four days, free concerts where words play, notes circulate, energy gathers and spectators exchange among themselves to vote for their favorite songs, which are covered during the final gala concert. The project then heads off to 3 major festivals, including the Francofolies de Montréal and the Francofolies de Spa.
60 titles, 60 ways of proving that song doesn't fit into a box, but explodes with diversity. It's a way of pushing young talent onto their first international stages, and of bringing a singular, plural repertoire to French-speaking waters, a sign of the effervescence of an art that shouldn't be relegated to the back of the garbage can.
Claiming cultural diversity, disseminating and encouraging debate around works, artists, talents well in their language and against the grain, such are the ambitions of this journey to the four corners of the Francosphere. In this 2013 edition, Switzerland will be represented by Noah Arango, who will revisit recent songs by Aliose, Marc Aymon and Stéphane Eicher, among others.
Find out more: www.catalyse.ch
