Carcassonne - Caravan Palace

The Carcassonne Festival is a fantastic, month-long festival with numerous concerts! It's always a pleasure to spend a few nights here during the festival. Most concerts are free – and the nights can be very long.

I first saw Caravan Palace ten years ago in Nice. I was very impressed and have seen them live twice more since then. Their sound is rooted in the swing music of the 1920s and the music of Django Reinhardt, but they have developed it into "electro swing" catapulting the dance music into the 21. century.

The band has sligtly changed over the last ten years. Of course we all got older and the stage performing has changed a bit including now a kind of LED-light show. Frontwoman and singer Zoé Colotis is still the center of the show and thrills the audience.

Lucas Saint-Cricq the saxophone player

It was truly a remarkable concert, though the evening ended in pouring rain later.