featuring

BJ Cole	Geraint Watkins
Roger Beaujolais	Andy Hamill
Nick Harper	Rebecca Hollweg
Piers Faccini	Ken Stringfellow
Usthiax	Daniel Yvinec
LadyChild	Rob Reynolds
Nicolas Mingot	Jean-Francois Pauvros
LadyChild	Gary Lucas
Berline	Marisa Yeaman
78 rpm Selector	Sebastien Llado

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The International House Band
featuring
Jeff Boudreaux (drums), Rob Armus (sax) & Paul Susen (fiddle)

Festival Imprévisible (unpredictable) & Inattendu (unexpected)
view the documentary trailer

to watch the entire hour long documentary click on the camera

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Concert Schedule

Thursday 27th August
5pm Pont Transbordeur (7)
"River Songs"

9pm Festival Off
Galway Pub & Golden Gate Café

Friday 28th August
11-30am Jardin de la Corderie (2)
4pm Aire des Gréements Corderie Garden (3)
6pm Jardin du Theatre (4)
9pm Main Stage Laperouse (1)

Saturday 29th August
11-30am Place Colbert Jeunes en Accords
2pm Jardin Maritime Museum (6)
4pm Jardin du Theatre (4)
6pm Rue Lafayette (5) Concert Apero
9pm Main Stage Laperouse (1)

The town of Rochefort is almost on the Atlantic coast and used to be an important
military port out of which Lafayette sailed to that skirmish in America.
There is a lot less naval gazing going on these days and the town's main claim to fame (apart from this festival)
is the 1967 movie "Les Demoiselles de Rochefort" made by Jacques Demy starring
Catherine Deneuve, Francoise Dorleac, Gene Kelly and George Chakiris.

Sites
The Main Stage la Perouse 1
Corderie Royale 2
Aire des Gréements 3
The Theatre Garden 4
Rue Lafayette 5
The Maritime Museum garden 6
The Pont Transbordeur 7



During the festival period Rochefort can get pretty crowed so it is advisable to book a hotel well in advance
to help you on your way check out hotels.

Access
For those of you who live in the UK (or Europe) getting to Rochefort isn't too much of a problem, Ryan Air fly there from London Stansted, FlyBE fromSouthampton and Birmingham, EasyJet from London Gatwick and Bristol.
Of course there is always travel by rail with frequent trains from
Paris Montparnasse to Rochefort via La Rochelle.

Where it's at !

and this is the Corderie Royale
a very long building in which they used to make a load of old rope

We would like to thank the alhambra recording studio Rochefort has an excellent well equiped recording studio. dann musique Well stocked music shop dann is manned by thierry who provides sound for the free stages and is the festival's guardian angel and official supplier or shaking eggs.

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