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Review

Les Femmes S'en Mêlent, a female indie music festival,  has built up its celebrity over 12 years in France and abroad, celebrating women in music. What started as a single gig in Paris in 1997 has grown into an event spanning across several nights in Paris, other cities in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Spain and England.

Driven by passion and curiosity and known for its eclecticism and quality, the festival is about feminity but far from feminism.  As time went by, the festival grew bigger and the female scene grew wider. The festival is now unanimously acclaimed, seen as a unique and indispensable musical rendez-vous across Europe, and an integral part of one of the hottest current musical scenes, always providing more talent.  All the while, it never lost his breath or faith,  but rather became better with the years.

Les Femmes S’en Mêlent festival, using its recognition to get cult international artists and its intuition to give a chance to new ones, affirmed and confirmed a true commitment, a nonstop tribute to female creativity.  The festival's name, which is based on a subtle pun, is about women’s position in music, about them getting mixed in and about them getting involved.  Whay may seem quite obvious today was not always so...

Artist

Jesca Hoop

Every now and again, something truly lovely that's not the family kitten will leap into your lap. The UK debut from US émigrée Hoop is just such a surprise. Alluringly warm it may be, but it s far from fluffy and is utterly incapable of outstaying its welcome.

Hoop s name might be familiar to Garveyphiles, as the Elbow man was an early champion of the gifted singer-songwriter and lends his soft-scuffed soul tones to Murder of Birds . This gorgeous record will inevitably attract comparisons with Bat For Lashes (for its glittering, pagan sensuality), My Brightest Diamond (for the crystalline operatics) and thus with Kate Bush (for the burnished beauty of some of its arrangements), but Hoop s roots are in the folk round-singing tradition rather than in pop, and her spirit and vigour are very much her own. LA is hot as fuck, she observes on Bed Across the Sea , which suggests CocoRosie backing Tom Waits (for whom Hoop once nannied) in the Australian Outback, and when she sings the shape of home-baked bread , you can almost smell it. Devastatingly delicious. more>>>

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Venue

La Maroquinerie

Created in 1997, La Maroquinerie can welcome 500 music lovers. Its eclectic selection offers you the edgiest and the hottest of today s sounds. But you can also chill out at the bar / restaurant or at the covered terrace, combining a musical evening with gastronomy ! This truly is the finest of the Parisian concert scene, and the staff has always welcomed us with open arms... Great sound, lighting, atmosphere and musical selection. Word.

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Les Femmes s'en Mêlent

Les Femmes S'en Mêlent, a female indie music festival,  has built up its celebrity over 12 years in France and abroad, celebrating women in music. What started as a single gig in Paris in 1997 has grown into an event spanning across several nights in Paris, other cities in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Spain and England.

Driven by passion and curiosity and known for its eclecticism and quality, the festival is about feminity but far from feminism.  As time went by, the festival grew bigger and the female scene grew wider. The festival is now unanimously acclaimed, seen as a unique and indispensable musical rendez-vous across Europe, and an integral part of one of the hottest current musical scenes, always providing more talent.  All the while, it never lost his breath or faith,  but rather became better with the years. 

Les Femmes S’en Mêlent festival, using its recognition to get cult international artists and its intuition to give a chance to new ones, affirmed and confirmed a true commitment, a nonstop tribute to female creativity.  The festival's name, which is based on a subtle pun, is about women’s position in music, about them getting mixed in and about them getting involved.  Whay may seem quite obvious today was not always so...

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Styles

• Rock

Sounds like

Joanna Newsome, Kate Bush, Joni Mitchell