Rose Festival: Bigflo & Oli’s gift to Toulouse
After the success of the two evenings at the Stadium of Toulouse in 2019, another dream tormented the two little rappers of the Minimes: to organize a festival in their city. It is now the event that has become a reality with an amazing program that is looming for the beginning of September…
It takes a lot to surprise Samuel Capus, associate director of Bleu Citron productions (see our interview), but the idea of his foals of a large-scale contemporary music festival in Toulouse that has come true leaves him speechless: “The answer audience is amazing! We were clearly not aiming for these scores but we were considering a full evening with 25,000 spectators. And even if there are places left since the public is now booked a lot at the last minute, it is certain that there is a real craze. Everyone wants to be part of the Toulouse back-to-school musical event! On the site of the MEETT – Parc des expositions de Toulouse, we are not busy yet but everything is ready behind the scenes. The volunteers recruited, the technical teams briefed, the actions on the ground adapted by the Rose association impelled, the artists happy to participate in this first edition, everything is nominal to experience the first edition of a festival with the stated ambition of s to impose in the landscape of the musical events of the great South-West.
All-ages festival
It must be said that the poster never tires of surprising! And the two brothers got into the game: “We first wanted to please the people of our generation, says Bigflo, to make them love it by bringing back names that have become essential like Damso or Laylow. But we didn’t want to focus exclusively on young people so we’re going to find Paul Kalkbrenner (German techno and electro producer and dj, editor’s note) who correspond more to our age group, IAM who are legends or Ben Mazué who a more “variety” profile that can affect all generations. And since we didn’t want the festival to be categorized solely as rap, we tried to balance the proposal by also programming electro, pop… » Also, the poster sweeps a wide spectrum of proposals , spearheaded by rap thanks to IAM, Damso, Laylow, Ziak, Chilla, NTO, Luidji, Zinée, but also a good proportion of electro, techno and house artists like Polo & Pan (who are currently experiencing great success in United States), Bon Entendeur, Paul Kalkbrenner, Deluxe, FKJ, Folamour and, to open up the offer even further, the big brothers Mouss & Hakim, the friend Ben Mazué but also the “popeux” of L’Impératrice. And then, Bigflo & Oli will play both evenings and there should be no shortage of surprises. In view of the featurings that dot the latest album, “The Others are us”, we would not be excited to see more beautiful people arrive on the stage of this expected first edition…
Practice
Friday 2 and Saturday 3 September from 4 p.m. at the MEETT – Parc des expositions (Concorde Avenue in Aussonne). 20 minutes by car from the city center of Toulouse, secure parking. Tramway T1 to the MEETT stop, available until 2:30 a.m. Bus Line 30. Prices: from 46.00 euros and two-day pass at 72 euros (standing) and 80 euros (standing and camping). https://rosefestival.fr