In his latest dispatch from the French fringes, David McKenna reports on how a new generation is reshaping French folk ‘balls’, and surveys the best new releases from the past few months.
Bosc, photo by Nicolas Godin
There have been signs in the past few months that France’s hitherto-marginal alternative folk or ‘trad’ scene has been gaining in visibility. The first edition of the New Trad Fest in May, co-organised by collective La Berge, cultural association Médiator and the Zamzamrec label (run by Franco-Italian couple Heloïse Thibault and Olmo Guadagnoli, who release music under their own names and as Zohastre), was a four-day event combining performances from drone-folk titans France, La Nòvia’s Jéricho, Cromorne (from the Dijon-based Collectif Engeance), readings, screenings –…
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