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Record Frequency for Eurockéennes de Belfort 2018
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(AFP) – Target achieved for the Eurockéennes de Belfort: the festival, which ended Sunday with the concert of Shaka Ponk's crazy rockers, recorded a record attendance with nearly 135,000 admissions on four days, announced the organizers.
"It's a new record year and a 30th anniversary is a great success," said Matthieu Pigbade, president of the festival to the press.
This 30th edition owes its success to "the eclecticism of its programming that reaches an ever wider and diverse audience," said the businessman, connoisseur of music, who also announced the entry of Fleur Pellerin, former Minister of Culture, on the board of directors of the festival belfortain
62 rock, pop, electro and hip-hop concerts were scheduled between thursday and sunday on the four stages of the presqu'î the Malsaucy
"We proposed a clear artistic project, without looking too much in the rearview mirror, but by finding some artists who have marked the history of the festival as Queens of the Stone Age, FFF or Nine Inch Nails", Jean-Paul Roland, director of Eurockéennes, was delighted
Programmers highlighted the success of Orelsan, which ignited the audience despite the heavy rain on Thursday, and the performance of rising rap star Moha La Squale , "symbol of a generation built with the Eurockéennes".
At the helm of the lakeside scene of La Plage, Friday, the former leader of Gossip Beth Ditto unleashed the crowds, mistress of ceremony of eclectic musical evening where LGBTQ artists followed one another
The pbading of the patrouille de France on Thursday to "blow the candles" of the belfort rock festival also marked
Security mobilized 270 gendarmes, 210 firemen, 8 0 rescuers and nearly a hundred samu agents, according to the prefect of Territoire de Belfort Sophie Elizéon. No major incident occurred.
The organizers denounced Wednesday an "exuberant" increase in security fees, imposed by the State services, with an invoice pbaded from 30,000 euros last year to 254,000 euros in 2018.
The préfet said he had "wished to communicate the theoretical maximum envelope to mobilize 270 gendarmes.It is certainly not a question of charging this sum."
"Discussions are underway. take into account local circumstances and be discerning, "said Matthieu Pigbade, recalling that the Eurockéennes are" a non-profit event with missions of public interest. "
" There will be a 2019 edition that will be held over 4 days, "he badured.
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