Festival Musiqueyras – Friday, July 24, 2026

Program:

Espace Guinguette / Place des Halles – Abriès

free

4:30 pm Restitution of the week's music workshops

Presentations by MussiQueyras musician trainees! Traditional singing from Southern Europe, West African percussion, diatonic accordion

6pm Jelly Sugar Band

The Jelly Sugar Band is the joy of a jazz that's a little tricky, a little naughty, the nostalgia of a New Orleans, in 1900 and of hoodlums, the acid smell of an apple pie, the blue smoke of the bateaux-mouches, the memory of a bad whisky, swallowed late at the bottom of a harbor, it's blues, rag, endless nights, sweat and velvet… As sweet and tangy as rum candy!

And the cast:

Alice Dézailes: vocals

Vincent Modolo: trumpet

Manu Amadei Giuseppi: clarinet

Paul Cura: double bass

Geoff Hartley: drums and trombone

Thomas Mazingue: guitar and banjo

Big top – Abriès

8:30pm – FALIBA

Gleaming Afro-jazz with Mandingo echoes

Afro-Jazz, Afro-Beat, traditional Mandinka revisited, sweet or spicy world songs… Faliba is a harmonious and explosive communion, an invitation to dance! Faliba's afro-fusion takes a fresh look at the Mandingo musical tradition. Somewhere between spicy jazz and afro-beat, this delightful quartet ventures into the lands of West Africa, tinged with Bambara songs, lively guitar, colorful saxophones, frenetic drums and percussion…

But above all, Faliba is the unique sounds of singer Yanifola's 10- or 14-string n'goni. The kamélé n'goni, the kora's little brother, is a lute harp from the Mandé region and one of the best-kept secrets of the Malinké repertoire. Faliba brings it to life in an energetic, gleaming Afro-jazz setting.

Yanifola: Compositions, N'goni, Vocals

Jeff Canova: Guitar, Percussion, backing vocals

Seb Smither: Alto & Baritone saxophones, backing vocals

Thomas Bourgeois: Drums & Zarb

Tim Chopin: Sound technician

10:30pm – DJUSU

Afro Groove Rock Concert

DJUSU, or "the heart" in Malinké, is a pretty secret in Nantes, but one that tends to get out.

But given the trio's lively performances, where electric guitars, n'goni and calabashes escaped from Orange Blossom revolve around Evelyne Mambo's dancing and singing, you'd be surprised at the opposite. Raw, piercing rock-psych references feeding "afro peppers" fed on M'balax, Highlife or Rumba, and a result that no aficionado of the late

aficionado of the late Tony Alle