Description:

The "Award for Music from Here" is a national program for identifying and supporting artists, initiated in 2017. It concerns musicians and singers from diasporas and national artists with whom they collaborate. It also aims to promote and collectively appropriate an artistic and cultural heritage.

How to define "Music from Here"? For more than a century, our country has regularly welcomed migrants led to leave their countries for economic, political, social reasons. Whether forced or chosen, this immigration fuels artistic creation and generates projects of great diversity. We consider this diversity a wealth to share. Artists steeped in a double culture revisit, alongside musicians they meet, the repertoires of the trad, rock, jazz, electro, or hip hop scenes, and reinvent today's music. These Musiques d'ICI are influenced by rhythms and sounds "from elsewhere" but created here on our soil! The artists we wish to promote come from numerous "diasporas," hence the subtitle of the program: Diaspora Music Award!