To celebrate the national holiday, a big concert and fireworks display will bring together the people of Toulouse on the banks of the Garonne, as they do every year. This time, be careful, the festivities are getting ahead of schedule and will start on July 13! Discover the schedule for this completely free evening at the Prairie des Filtres.
Launch of the festivities on July 13
This year, the national holiday festivities are getting ahead of schedule! The unmissable evening at the Prairie des Filtres is planned for July 13 in order to preserve the tranquility of local residents, explains the town hall in a press release, the national holiday falling on a Sunday.
Eleven artists for the NRJ Music Tour
From 6:30 p.m., the concerts will begin with the line-up of emerging local artists. Five young talents will perform: Ôja, Specymen, Maheva, Dorian Ruiz, Hesters & Peppers. A 100% Toulouse cast to open the ball and warm up spirits.
At 8:30 p.m., the highly anticipated NRJ Music Tour will kick off.Eleven artists will perform two hours of free shows: and there will be something for everyone! Rap and urban music fans will enjoy Keblack, Théodore, and Carbonne. Singer Vitaa and Corneille will bring R& B, Pop and Soul.
The essential French song Matt Pokora will get the crowds moving and singing, as well as Joseph Kamel and the two gems from the show Star Academy: Pierre Garnier and Helena. Finally, the audience will dance to Lucenzo and his unforgettable hit Danza Kuduro, as well as to the electronic rhythms of DJ Boris Way.
The fireworks display from the Garonne
Following the concert, the people of Toulouse will approach the banks to enjoy the unmissable spectacle of the national holiday: a fireworks display from the Garonne (designed this year by the Ruggieri company).
The show, with light and sound, is part of the Nougaro Year: a season of exhibitions and concerts in memory of the artist for the 20th anniversary of his death. The pyromusical show will then be based around the music of Claude Nougaro.
Fired from 24 rafts and barges in the middle of the river over 500 meters long, it will offer a facade of fire to be seen in 360°: from the Pont-neuf, the Pont Saint-Michel, the Prairie des Filtres as well as the Quai de la Daurade.
The Toulouse fireworks will be broadcast on a delayed basis, in the second part of the evening, at 11:45 p.m. on TF1.
A second fireworks display at Reynerie on July 14
For those who missed it, a second fireworks display will be fired from the banks of Reynerie Lake on July 14. Meet at 10:30 p.m. for an open-air concert: a real moment of celebration for young and old, under the glitter and with musical themes from epic films.
Other festivities are scheduled in Toulouse for the day of July 14: a military parade on rue Ozenne at 11 a.m., and a free musical show “La France en chansons” at 3 p.m., followed by a ball with the Jacques Demeurs orchestra at the Pierre Baudis Congress Center.
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