With TSHH, the Nîmes association Da Storm reinvents its hip hop festival

L’équipe de Da Storm s’installe dans la fac Vauban pour un week-end de festival.

Le festival de hip hop est désormais sur un week-end intense vendredi 27 et samedi 28 septembre à la fac Vauban à Nîmes.

"C’est une page qui se tourne", according to Ghislain Nouguier, from the Da Storm association, creator of the Tout simplement hip hop festival in 2007, which became TSHH. Like this shortcut, the festival is now concentrated on a weekend, “a short time and in the same place”, with an intense program.

During the evenings, outdoors in the university courtyard, it's time for discovery. "A varied and coherent program, in all the boxes of French rap", says Ghislain Nouguier.

Evening concerts

Friday, the evening begins at 7 p.m. First, discover a regional artist, Ekloz, who opened for Dadju and Tayc in the arenas this summer. Parisian Jewel Usain will present his latest project, applauded by critics, accompanied by four musicians, including a trumpeter. Zuukou Mayzie, a member of the Franco-Senegalese collective 667, is part of this new generation that likes to hybridize hip hop with sounds from elsewhere, particularly pop and electro. Lesram, a member of the Panama Bende collective from which PLK comes, is a fan of rap that plays very technically with words and rhymes.

Saturday evening, the concerts will start at 6 p.m. From the Nîmes group VSO, Pex presents his new project Astronauteand his music, which he defines as digital poetry. Danyl, who will be at the Olympia at the beginning of next year, mixes hip hop, pop and raï. Recently discovered, Jolagreen23 likes to try out lots of different, complex and nuanced sounds. Zinée from Toulouse, a unique voice on the hip hop scene, is back on stage after health problems for a total artistic renewal. NeS, just 20 years old and already with thousands of rhymes under her belt, is bringing a breath of fresh air with a strong taste for writing. Prince Waly, who had lost his voice to cancer, returned with authentic music, inspired by this particular journey.

If the festival goes from a month to a weekend, Da Storm keeps the same desires and multiplies the projects outside the festival, notably No Limit with young people in situation de handicap or Voie(s) which will take urban art to the countryside, along the greenways of the department.

Friday, September 27, 7 p.m.-12:30 p.m. Saturday, 28, 1:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. (free), then 6 p.m.-12:30 p.m. Unîmes, Vauban site, rue Dr-Salan, Nîmes. One day pass 27 €, 2 days 37 €. Info dastorm.fr