The Country Western Altitude Festival

2010, Go west man!

Yes, indeed! Here we are! It’s all go for the 4^th edition of our ‘country western’ festival high up in the mountains… or rather your festival, as you are more and more numerous at this rendez-vous -and faithful as well- at the beginning of July in this gorgeous region of  ‘Alpes de Haute Provence’.

Two whole days full of dreams, friendship and togetherness… on the road again!

The patron and the Chairman

will share their passion with you and will lead the dance at a good pace during these two days.

Bernard will carry you from the barn to the town of LURS

in his waggons everywhere in the area. Marine and Emmanuelle from the club ‘Clopin Clopan’ will help with their horses pulling a ten-seat covered waggon (just like in ‘The little house in trhe Prairie’).

The  musicians of the 2010 festival

Bus stop

Welcome to Route 66… a genuine trip through America

Eddy Ray Cooper

Since 1989, Eddy Ray Cooper is the reference in the ‘country’ scene in France.

Lilly West

Best authentic female singer in Quebec in 2009.

Caballeros A Caballos

Some of the cow-boys present take part in the BUFFALO BILL WILD WEST SHOW in DISNEYLAND PARIS.

There’s a lot of emotion with the American female trick riding team.

Ruddy Farmers

A show of authentic bluegrass : banjo, mandolin, guitars

Country Music Attitude

Sabine BENICHOU and Alain SANDERS give talks with extracts from video films or reports which offer a kind of ‘historical trips’ on several themes :

-history of country music and history of country and western dance

-French America

-Lafayette

-What if the South had won?

-Alamo, from legend to history?

There is a little corner of paradise in France where the cowboy is king : Saint Jean Montclar and the surrounding countryside in the Alpes de Haute Provence. The plateau de la Chau lies at the altitude of 1500m, overlooking the lake of Serre-Ponçon and it is dominated by the Dormillouse. The plateau is bordered with larch, fir, rowan, silver birch, walnut trees… We have walked, horse riding, cycling, driving a four-wheel car, rafting, paragliding or followed a donkey from Provence (with a black St Andrew cross on its back). The donkey is a very rustic and very intelligent animal. The true story of the dunce’s cap, the “donkey’s cap” in French, is that the dunce was made to wear such a cap by the teacher in the hope that it would make him more intelligent.