2025

Friday August 15th

!GéRald! - 6:15 pm

France

Behind the exclamation of this first name hides a quintet of four musicians (this is exceptionally rare) who have been part of the French progressive landscape since 2018.

!GeRald! is a French-English experimental rock and visual arts project born in the Deux-Sèvres countryside and has acquired a fierce name as a live performance.

The question that haunts me is why this first name? Would the group be on the road all day long or would it imitate personalities (in one word) or was this premonitory of the career of a fool's guard (we must leave the jumps to the seals).

With intimidating melodies, an uncompromising rhythm section and complex structures, the project has created a surreal landscape subject to shape changes targeting the nervous system.

It all seems extremely confusing, but no, it is with a well-organized verve and fervor that the group will open the weekend of the 25th edition. PM

Teddie Burton : Drum, Noise Box, lead vocal

Marin Michelat : Keyboards, vocal

Quentin Loizeau : Bass, vocal

Thomas Redon : Guitar, vocal

Indrek Patte - 8:00 pm

Estonia

Beardfish - 10:00 pm

Sweden

Saturday August 16th

Der Neue Planet - 5:00 pm

Germany

To open the second day of the Festival, we invite you to discover this “New Planet”, which appeared in the skies over Cologne in 2016.

Now visible in the skies over St-Palais, it's inhabited by 4 musicians who come down on stage to play their unique experimental instrumental music fusing different styles.

You'll hear heavy, powerful Stoner riffs contrasting with dreamy, playful, psychedelic Post-Rock and Jazzy melodies.

After a self-titled debut mini-album, “Der Neue Planet”, released in 2016, three more followed from 2018 to 2024, including the latest, the aptly named “Schwerkraft für Anfänger” (“Gravity for Beginners”): quite a program! The German quartet's original, singular and versatile compositions form a broad spectrum of Rock-Prog.

So you should be won over by their otherworldly sound, where the music is never monotonous or predictable thanks to its complex but catchy arrangements. Gjl

Tim DAESCHER & Ramin MOOZEH : Guitars

Claudius PLEISS : Drums, Percussions

Luca LOEB : Bass

Regna - 6:30 pm

Spain

In recent years, Barcelona has become the cradle of Spanish prog rock.

Indeed, this young combo is the 3rd, from the Catalan capital, to be programmed at the Festival after HARVEST in 2017 and ON THE RAW (2018).

Formed in 2014, they'll be presenting compositions from their new album exclusively, as well as their 1st: “Meridian” (EP) released in 2015 and “Cinéma” (2023).

Nostalgic for the dawn of the 70s, the sextet uses period instruments such as the Hammond B3 organ, the Leslie and the Mellotron to create songs, sung in English, drawing their inspiration from the Jazz-Rock, Folk and Symphonic atmospheres of this highly creative period, subtly fused with its Hispanic roots. Moving from one style to another with masterful consistency, the 2 guitarists play their part to the full.

There's no doubt that this powerful alchemy, fully assumed, will reign its authentic style on your musical sensibility for the duration of this concert. Gjl

Alejandro Dominguez & Xavier Martinez : Guitars

Arturo Garcia : Bass

Miquel Gonzàlez : Keyboards

Marc illa : Lead vocal

Eric Lavado : Drums, Percussions

HiPoKaMP Projekt - 8:15 pm

Poland

Traveler - 10:00 pm

USA - Arizona

That’s a name that encourages travel !

These 4 boys from Arizona offer us an explosive fusion of progressive rock and world music with dramatic and sweet melodies influenced by the ethnic heritages of the whole world.

Traveler’s performance brings to the stage ambiences of the Middle East, India, Gypsies, Celts, Greeks and Turks, combining traditional ethnic instruments with all the power of a rock band.

Scott Jeffers, the band’s creator and composer, traveled extensively to find inspiration for the Traveler project. Known for his passionate and fiery violin, his 4-octave vocal range with Mongolian throat singing techniques shows his dominant presence on stage and brings a unique signature to Traveler in the world of Prog. The band has played a lot at festivals in the USA, Canada, UK, Turkey and now in France!

You want to dance and travel ? Don’t miss this concert ! JmP

Scott Jeffers: Lead vocal, Violin, Turk Oud, Loutar, Bouzouki

Jason Wiedman : Drums, Percussions ( Duval bulgare, Egyptian Doumbek, Cajun )

Zack Egan : Guitar, Banjitar

Barton Applewite : Bass fretless, Cello

Sunday August 17th

Edenya - 5:30 pm

France

Vecteur K - 7:00 pm

Canada

Aaaaah it's great to welcome some cousins from Quebec!

Vecteur K is a French-speaking progressive rock band from Lanaudière, a beautiful region between the St. Lawrence and the Laurentians, north of Montreal.

Since its creation in 2003 by Marc-André Noël, the band has played hundreds of concerts in Canada and the USA, and is coming to Europe for the first time. After 3 studio albums to their credit, La peur du désert (2009), Incident au Café (2016) and Stratigraphie (2023), the band may be releasing their 1st live album after their concert on the ocean stage, so stay tuned!

With bursting compositions and multi-image lyrics, they establish a style all their own, with no barriers and no limits, on the frontiers of rock and progressive music. A rich, sophisticated sound and French lyrics, combined with arrangements that remain simple despite the complexity of their structures, give Vecteur K's music a special hue that makes them unique. JmP

Marc-André Noel : Guitar, lead vocal

Marc-Antoine Sauvé : Guitar, lapsteel, mandolin

Cédric Charest-Lafond : Keyboards

François Fournier : Bass, keyboards

Alexandre De Sève : Drums

Hayley Griffiths Band - 9:00 pm

England

Hayley is no stranger to the Crescendo audience.

After a first performance in 2017 with Karnataka, she performed in 2018 with Zio and in 2019 with her own band to close the festival's 20th anniversary.

It is with a busy schedule : a Rock album, a Celtic album and the 10th anniversary of Karnataka's highlight album "Secret of Angels" that the band presents itself to you.

The Londoners' shows are rich and intense in emotion, Hayley's stage presence and magical voice, Mathieu Spaeter's guitar solos, George Price's twirling bass, Rob Lindop's captivating keyboards and to boost it all, the showman behind the drums Jimmy Pallagrosi.

So, shake the moths out of your clothes and get ready to dance like crazy because one thing is certain, you are going to experience a high-level show to close the festival. PM

Hayley Griffiths : Lead vocal

Mathieu Spaeter : Guitars

George Price : Bass

Rob Lindop : Keyboards

Jimmy Pallagrosi : Drum Animal

Happy End - 11:15 pm

Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end, and the Happy End is, as the name suggests, the moment when the festival comes to a close.

It's time to jam with members of various bands, celebrate, pay tribute to all the volunteers (photo) and say ..... see you next year!