A mul­ti-stake­hold­er net­work :

programmers,
producers,
labels,
bookers,
managers,
artists…

More than
200 members

In France and
inter­na­tion­aly

- Head­lines -

UFISC press release against cuts in cultural budgets

Madam Pres­i­dent of the Pays de la Loire Region­al Coun­cil : stop the destruc­tion of pub­lic poli­cies !Recent announce­ments of dras­tic cuts in the bud­gets allo­cat­ed to cul­ture, sport, com­mu­ni­ty life, pop­u­lar edu­ca­tion and civic engage­ment in Pays de la Loire have

No Border — Brest December 5 to 15

The four­teenth edi­tion of the No Bor­der — Fes­ti­val des musiques pop­u­laires du monde, com­bines musi­cal dis­cov­er­ies, inti­mate con­certs, estab­lished artists, live­ly and dance­able con­certs, work­shops and con­fer­ences. On Thurs­day Decem­ber 12, Zone Franche is a part­ner of the day-long event

Les Escales de St-Nazaire is recruiting a new manager !

Les Escale­sa fes­ti­val based in Saint-Nazaire and mem­ber of Zone Franche, is recruit­ing a direc­tor (F/H).Appli­ca­tions to be sent before Jan­u­ary 5, 2025 for a posi­tion start­ing in April 2025.Job descrip­tion and detailed infor­ma­tion on this link

TransMusicales de Rennes — December 5 and 6

For 2 days, Thurs­day Decem­ber 5 and Fri­day Decem­ber 6, the Zone Franche team will be present at the Trans­Mu­si­cales in Rennes. We look for­ward to see­ing you : Fri­day 6/12 — 10am to 12pm at La Mai­son des Asso­ci­a­tions — Salle 100Professional

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The association

The Zone Franche asso­ci­a­tion was found­ed in 1990, when the encounter between tra­di­tion­al oral music and the sounds of glob­al­iza­tion was cre­at­ing new lan­guages and sound­scapes. Today, 219 struc­tures are fed­er­at­ed around pro­fes­sion­al and polit­i­cal issues.

A network
professional

Zone Franche is a cross-dis­ci­pli­nary orga­ni­za­tion that brings togeth­er all cat­e­gories of play­ers in the sec­tor : fes­ti­vals, venues, labels and pub­lish­ers, artists’ rep­re­sen­ta­tives, media, cul­tur­al asso­ci­a­tions, trade shows, and more. Although incor­po­rat­ed in France, the net­work has an inter­na­tion­al dimen­sion, with mem­bers on every con­ti­nent.

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Music and
world cultures

World music is the focal point of the net­work’s mem­bers, what­ev­er their activ­i­ties.
All share the same pas­sion for this music, whether “learned” or pop­u­lar, eth­nic or mixed, sacred or sec­u­lar, oral or writ­ten, per­formed by pro­fes­sion­al or ama­teur musi­cians.

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The missions

As stat­ed in its arti­cles of asso­ci­a­tion, the net­work’s actions con­tribute to the devel­op­ment of World Music on an inter­na­tion­al lev­el, par­tic­u­lar­ly in French-speak­ing coun­tries. It’s a place for ini­tia­tive, reflec­tion, shar­ing of expe­ri­ence, exchange of infor­ma­tion, coop­er­a­tion and pool­ing of resources around new projects, and a lab­o­ra­to­ry for new ideas.

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Zone Franche presents :

#AuxSons,
collaborative webmedia

Zone Franche sup­ports the online week­ly #Aux­Sons ded­i­cat­ed to music and vibra­tions from around the world : the web­me­dia #Aux­Sons(www.auxsons.com) offers an inno­v­a­tive and cre­ative approach, mil­i­tant and sup­port­ive, to give new vis­i­bil­i­ty to music, cul­tures and news from around the world. Faced with ever-decreas­ing musi­cal diver­si­ty in the press, on radio and on tele­vi­sion, #Aux­Sons high­lights the artists who inhab­it our plan­et and fill it with their cre­ativ­i­ty, the diver­si­ty of their cul­tures, the sound of their lan­guages and instru­ments, etc.…