A series of acoustic musical evenings celebrating the voice, instruments, and intimate stories of African and Afro-diasporic cultures.

Veillée sonore highlights the musical movements that have traversed and shaped African and Afro-diasporic communities around the world. Conceived as sound vigils, these evenings are spaces for sharing, celebration and affirmation. They reveal the importance of songs, rhythms and instruments in African histories and cultures.

A suspended moment

Each gathering unfolds as an acoustic communion. Naked voices, the breath of flutes, and the murmur of strings blend together to weave a polyphonic tapestry. Languages, lived or imagined, become songs and stories, transforming the space into one of intimate and collective resonance.

These ceremonies are conceived as rituals. Musicians, storytellers, and poets come together to share fragments of memory and experience. Without amplification or artifice, the space becomes one of trust and closeness, where the voice regains its full power as a vessel of transmission.