📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Blesle's annual music festival is celebrating its 16th birthday. Participate to the festival's most exciting moments, from setting up the venue to celebrating the festival's closing evening with fireworks and a brass band!
With a backdrop of old stone buildings, the association which organizes the festival wishes to treat the audience with a special musical experience. In a welcoming and family-friendly atmosphere, around 30 groups and more than 100 artists will be invited to perform in several locations during 3 days (from August 11th to 13th). The program is eclectic and open to the wider public: concert, jam-sessions, “musical walking tours” and workshops. The volunteers will arrive early in order to help with the organization of the festival and to reinforce the international dimension of this event. The festival will take place in a particularly charming environment (Blesle is one of the most beautiful villages in France).
💼 What the programme involves
You will participate in different activities together with a group of other festival volunteers. You will help with the logistics before and after the event: setting up and dismantling the stages. You will make the decoration of the festival. You will raise awareness of sustainable development (construction of dry toilets). You will also welcome the artists as well as the visitors during the festival and be in charge of the car park, catering of the artists and the stands "Refreshments" and "Catering» for the public. You will be accompanied by two camp leaders throughout your stay.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be sleeping on mattresses, on the mezzanine level of the municipal gymnasium in Blesle, which is located in the centre of the town. The group activities will take place in the gymnasium, which is entirely reserved for the group. You will have access to the gymnasium's changing rooms, showers and toilets.
The group will be sharing the cleaning chores and preparing meals together. Midday meals will be shared with the other festival volunteers. The budget will be allocated to the group leader and you will participate in the preparation of dishes with good products from the market and local producers.
📍 About the location
Blesle is a village with 600 inhabitants and is located in the Haute-Loire Department (Auvergne region). It is located 70 km away from Clermont-Ferrand city, in a very beautiful valley called Allagnon. The town is full of charms, with remarkable historical and architectural features, and it has been voted as one of the most beautiful villages in France. It is especially popular with tourists and is a friendly and calm place where you can experience life close to nature without being too far from local amenities. For more information, you can take a look at: http://aperos-musique-blesle.com and http://www.tourismeblesle.fr.
ℹ️ Additional information
Some basic French is necessary.
Bring work clothes, walking boots and a backpack. Nights can be chilly, so bring warm clothes and a good sleeping bag. You can also bring recipes from your home country, musical instruments and games. You will get around Blesle village on foot.
Foreigners belonging to the European Union must bring with them a personal EHIC (European Health Insurance Card), and everybody must, in any case, bring their insurance certificate. If health issues happen on the project, volunteers will have to pay for it, and then be reimbursed once back in their home country.