The festival is based on a number of specific features: touring, a specific program, local roots resulting from multiple partnerships, and strong support from local authorities.
Touring
The evening concerts take place in 6 main towns: Montbrun-les-Bains, Mollans sur
Ouvèze, Buis les Baronnies, Saint-Restitut, Pierrelatte and Donzère.
Other concerts, free of charge, are scheduled under the name Jazz au Village in various
various small towns in the surrounding area. In this way, the festival has become an integral part of the cultural life
cultural life of the Drôme provençale region. More than 20 communes in the Baronnies and Tricastin regions are or have been
have benefited from concerts organized by the festival.
Specific programming
For the past five years, the festival's programming has focused primarily on jazz groups led by
with the aim of highlighting not only female singers, but also and above all female instrumentalists.
instrumentalists. In this way, the festival stands out as the only one in France, and one of only a handful
among a handful of European festivals.
This uniqueness, combined with the quality of the programming, means that artists of international stature can be heard in small towns in the Drôme.
artists of international stature in small towns in the Drôme Provençale region
(Le Monde, Télérama, France Culture, Jazz magazine) and important partnerships with the regional
regional press.
Local roots and partnerships
For several years now, the festival has been developing partnerships with other local players,
both during and outside the festival.
Le Reg'art cinema, which hosts our program of films and conferences on the theme of
Les Femmes et le Jazz", has been a partner for the past 2 years, hosting an evening event in the spring. In
2023, for example, we welcomed Los Angeles director Judith Chaikin for her film
"The Girls in the Band", whose subtitling Parfum de Jazz co-produced with two other French festivals.
French festivals.
For several years now, we've been setting up workshops for amateur singers and instrumentalists.
instrument), and this year we're strengthening our ties with local amateur musicians by
by setting up an "off" festival enabling amateur musicians to perform in public during the
the duration of the festival. An active partnership has been established with the Buis les Baronnies music school,
Notes en Bulles.
For young people, the secondary schools of Buis les Baronnies and Suze la Rousse have benefited for several years from artistic interventions during the school year.
artistic interventions during the school year.
We have also set up workshops and concerts with leisure centers in Pierrelatte and Buis les Baronnies.
Baronnies (workshops and concerts), and in 2024 we're introducing a program for young audiences
open to all, with a show in Buis les Baronnies and one in Pierrelatte.
Parfum de Jazz is also active in Ehpad (Buis and Pierrelatte).
Photo exhibitions and writing workshops are also part of the festival's concert program.
the festival.
Finally, the festival is also involved in regional and national partnerships, with its
membership of the AJC national and Jazz(s)RA regional professional networks.
