On-site food options at Les Cornières with several partners.
July 16/17/18:
Hang' Art Bus: 06 08 69 97 50
Java Indonesian cuisine: 06 89 75 21 12
La Réunionnaise: 06 87 53 41 26
Mireille Pizza: 07 81 18 45 80
Le Bastide Restaurant: 05 53 68 38 59
A dance floor on the Citadel esplanade will allow those who wish to combine music and dancing.
Parking available on the southern ramparts (40 spaces) along rue des Amours.
Tribute to Jacques Gauthé:
The Gascon from New Orleans
On July 7, 2003, the Puymirol jazz festival was born. For the occasion, it welcomed Jacques Gauthé, a clarinetist from Gers who in 1972 left his butcher shop in Tournefeuille to fully pursue his passion in the city of jazz, New Orleans, where he enjoyed a brilliant career. Each year he returned to his "homeland" for a European tour, notably to Marciac. Following his last concert at home in Gaujac, he passed away in 2007. He rests in Gascon soil.
Francis Lalubin, a friend from Lot-et-Garonne and enlightened jazz enthusiast, has just published a valuable discography richly illustrated about Jacques: "A Gascon in New Orleans."
This booklet (cost €10) will be on sale during the festival where a small exhibition will be presented.
A LIMITED EDITION NOT TO BE MISSED!
Puym'Jazz
Since 2003, Puymirol, a beautiful Bastide in the Lot-et-Garonne region (between Toulouse and Bordeaux), has celebrated jazz with its open-air festival.
An idyllic setting
Overlooking the ramparts and the parapet walk, the Citadel Esplanade welcomes renowned artists year after year for diverse concerts in a friendly and warm atmosphere. It's a feast for the eyes, discovering this picturesque location, and for the ears, enjoying the jazz music.
Edito : JAZZ STORY
When Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville decided in 1718 to build a city in Louisiana (a region named in honor of Louis XIV, who died in 1715), he dedicated it to the royal family and named it New Orleans.
He did not know that this port located in the Mississippi Delta would become the bubbling cauldron of a music that, pouring into America, would conquer the entire world.
If Buddy Bolden's legendary trumpet disturbed the waters of Lake Pontchartrain with its power, it was in fact announcing the arrival of King Oliver and Louis Armstrong, to whom the crown would then pass.
But in this abundant history, let's not forget the contribution of the Creole reeds, of which Sidney Bechet (also a child of the Crescent City) carried high to France this music of pleasure but also of nostalgia.
Puym'Jazz was fortunate to be born on July 17, 2003, thanks to Jean-Claude Escalé's Jazzmagnac and Jacques Gauthé, Sidney's Gascon disciple.
To the jazz of the origins would be added a period that, for the sake of classification (even though jazz is unclassifiable), was called the "swing era". This was the fabulous contribution of the big bands of the thirties and forties before the century sank into chaos. Fortunately, a few notes maintained hope.
Emerging from this period, the immense figure of Duke Ellington appears as major in contemporary music. It is this that Paul Chéron and his group "Echoes of Harlem" offer us this summer.
In July, our small gatherings pass through the Bastide of Puymirol.
See you soon.
Jean-Claude Ulian