French Spring Time Festival
Popular French boy band ‘Bel Plaine’ will come alive in Colombo at the French Spring Festival to be held in Sri Lanka from 19 June to 15 July. The third French Spring Festival in Sri Lanka is organized by the Embassy of France, the Alliance Française de Kotte in Colombo and the General Delegation of the Alliance Française in Sri Lanka and the Maldives, together with the Sri Lankan Ministry of Culture and the Arts.
This multi-disciplinary festival is for the most part free of charge and open to the public. It will be held from 19th June to 15th July in Colombo in various venues including: Park Street Mews, Cinnamon Lakeside Hotel, National Film Corporation, Sri Lanka Foundation… Some events will also take place in Kandy, Matara, Galle, Jaffna and Malé in the Maldives.
This festival proposes events in various artistic fields such as music, dance, cinema photography, visual arts as well as science and French cuisine.
The French Spring Festival is organised by the Embassy of France in Sri Lanka and the Maldives and the Alliance Française network, in partnership with Emirates Airlines, the official airline for the Festival and the Cinnamon Lakeside Hotel, the official hotel, with the support of several other French and Sri Lankan companies.
The bands playing will include Ecole Francaise, Thriloka, Wagon Park, Julius, The Brahminy Kites, Sketch City Saturday, Naadro, Bel Plaine, Paranoid Earthling and Romulus.
The event starts at 3.30pm at The Park street Mews with the music of ‘Bel Plaine’ and entrance is free.
The band ‘Bel Plaine’ will perform at Cinnamon Lakeside Hotel on 19thof June at 8.30pm and at Park Street Mews again on 20th of June at 9.00pm.
The boys will be in action at the Peddlar’s Inn Café in Galle on Sunday 22nd of June from 6.30pm. Awarded with the “Paris Young talent Prize” by the city of Paris in 2013, Bel Plaine is one of the most touching and promising bands in France.
Born in 2011, Bel Plaine is composed of 3 members: Morgan and Antoine, both singers and guitar players and Cedric at the drums. The novelty of the band comes from the mixing of the diversity of musical genres the group’s members come from: rock, folk, pop and even jazz. This creates catchy and accessible music, tinged with folk, sometimes rock music and overall vocal harmony. After playing at the biggest music festivals in France (les Francopholies, Solidays,…) and in many venues in Paris and around France, they will be playing abroad for the very first time in Sri Lanka.
Their first EP, included in the press kit, was auto-produced, mixed and mastered in New York by Joe LaPorta (Beach House, Foo Fighters, Youth Lagoon) and will soon be followed by an album.
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