in Tinténiac Les Hivernales 31 January & 1 February 2025

The winter must-see event

A festival open to young artists

Thanks to the partnership with the Syndicat Intercommunautaire de Musique (SIM), every year many schoolchildren have the opportunity to showcase their talent to the public. Les Hivernales has also played host to the winners of the Sonowest springboard for groups from Rennes high schools.

A festival accessible to as many people as possible

Thanks to the support of public and private partners, admission prices remain accessible to as many people as possible. To maintain this objective, we need your help!

A social and responsible festival

It is above all the Artists and Technicians who contribute to the success of the show. Whether they are amateurs or professionals, our association takes care to offer them reception conditions and remuneration in line with their passion or their work. We aim to balance the Festival’s budget, but whenever possible we continue in the spirit of the first edition, to provide modest financial support to other associations: AFM, Restos du Coeur, Association Audrey 35, Québriac Migrants Solidarité, Secours Catholique, Tinténiac Solidarité Burkina, …

A festival rooted in the local area

Located between Rennes and St Malo, Tinténiac has hosted the Festival des Hivernales since the first edition. Other neighbouring towns (Combourg, Saint-Domineuc) take part in the festival by providing equipment. In a space that can accommodate 700 people each evening, the programme each year features musicians, artists and exhibitors from the Communauté de Communes de la Bretagne Romantique and surrounding communes. This link with the “locals” is essential to our identity.

A festival of volunteers

Les Hivernales couldn’t still exist without its “formidable” team of volunteers. Programming, preparing and transforming Espace Ille-et-Donac into a concert venue for a weekend requires energy, time and ideas. The team has grown from strength to strength, with new volunteers joining every year to ensure the success of the 14th edition.

The story begins at the end of 2008 …

The idea germinated in the heads of a few ‘mates’ to organise a musical evening, the profits from which would be donated to a humanitarian project in Vietnam. The event took place in February 2009, in the middle of winter, and was appropriately named ‘Les Hivernales’! For a first, it was a success, with around 300 people taking part. But then the organisers, in collaboration with SIM and the group Les Zarmoires Blindées, decided to do it again! A second, then a third… the editions follow one another each year…

Mixing musical styles, redistributing part of the profits to benefit local associations, welcoming painters, graphic artists… all in a festive and good-natured atmosphere, such have been the objectives of this modest (but brilliant!) festival.

In 2014, the association “Les Hivernales Tinténiac” was created to welcome new members and focus on this event. Over the years, about sixty musical groups have performed on the Hivernales stage, that’s nearly 250 artists ranging from classical repertoire to hard rock, blues and French chanson. Added to this were a dozen artists who exhibited their work.

FRIDAY JANUARY 31

‘NDIAZ

‘Ndiaz is one of the leading groups on the new scene in Brittany; dance music, hybridisation of influences, sound research for a brassy music with elegant frenzy and explosive trance. The group’s music, rich with dozens of concerts given across Europe and the Americas (Quebec, USA, Brazil) is destined for celebration and exultation of the bodies.

DIXIT

Born in Rennes, the Dixit trio reinvents traditional Breton music by adding an innovative touch.

Thanks to an atypical instrumental ensemble, the three musicians create a unique musical language that enriches Breton dance repertoires with creativity and generosity.

ERIS

The trio from Rennes, takes the bold gamble of fusing traditional influences from Upper Brittany with the power of amplified contemporary music. They harmonise personalities and instruments to create a mystical musical experience that transcends genres and differences.

Le Sim

2 traditional music bands from SIM will come on stage and in the middle of the dancers.

SUNDAY 1 FEBRUARY

LE PIED DE LA POMPE (Folk rock)

Le Pied de la Pompe (LPdLP) is a festive folk rock band with conscious lyrics. They mix folk and electric guitars, defying codes and offering a frontal sound. Their motto is to play and share their vision of a world where the worst rubs shoulders with the best.

BIGs (Fanfare)

A colourful oriental music fanfare. To listen to Bigs is to rediscover themes from Rebetiko, the music born in Greece following the waves of Oriental migration in the 1920s.

YEKO (Afro music)

Born from an album carnet de voyage in West Africa by Breton guitarist Yohann Le Ferrand, YEKO was propelled onto the stage following Arte’s invitation to perform at the “Concerts Volants”. It was the encounter with Malian singer Socha that crystallised the live formula with musicians from Burkina Faso and Brittany.

FAŸGO (reggae)

An English-language reggae group from Rennes, made up of 9 musicians, Faygo is a call to share, open-mindedness and travel and revisits the genre with a fresh eye. Faygo’s reggae distils touches of jazz, afrobeat, blues, and funk.

Le Sim

Free admission to the Salle R. Rebours from 8pm to 11pm, for an additional stage where SIM current music bands will perform alongside the festival.