From June 29 to July 2, the city of Millau in Aveyron (12) will beat to the rhythm of the Natural Games festival. For the tenth consecutive year, music and outdoor sports competitions will follow one another in a frantic pace. 10 candles that will be celebrated with dignity on Sunday evening during a special anniversary evening. Year after year, it has become the unmissable event for extreme sports enthusiasts. Starting 10 years ago with the simple idea of combining natural sports and music, the Natural Games have now become the largest gathering of outdoor sports in Europe. The free festival brought more than 100,000 people from across the continent the previous year. To blow out his tenth candle, he deviates for the first time from the rule of his last evening, Sunday, July 2, by charging his entrance… for a good cause. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnq7_-eUaQc
The world's best competitors
The Natural Games is above all a festival of extreme sports of air, water and land. Five days of competition but also shows for an audience still amazed by the prowess of the athletes. Indeed, 4500 competitors of 27 different nationalities for 12 competitions will jostle on the Aveyron lands. There will be the only French stage of the enduro mountain bike world cup, the European freestyle kayak cup, an international bouldering contest, an international slopestyle mountain bike contest, a jumpline world cup, a freestyle paragliding show, a stand-up paddle open and still impressive, from the highline to the heart of the Dourbie gorges with a world record attempt of length of more than 1.2 km. New this year: The Air Race, a solo trail and paragliding race. Demos and initiations will be available throughout the festival in the Natural Games Village.
A festival of concerts
They also make the Natural Games famous: the free evening concerts. For this 2017 edition, beautiful people come or return under the stage of Millau. All accompanied by memorable after-parties. From Thursday, June 29, Alltta will inaugurate these 10thNatural Games . Worn by 20syl (C2C and Hocups Pocus) and its MC J.Medeiros (Procussions), this fabulous electro hip-hop project will have enough to ignite the scene. Spearhead of the Chinese Man label, Taiwan MC will discover their first album Cool & Deadly, tinged with a hip-hop reggae addicted to electronic bass. It is Féfé who will end this first evening with his new album Mauve with African resonance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X95JJxKTdY Friday, June 30 it is L'Entourloop (The Architect and Deej'O) that will color the Natural Games with their hip-hip reggae sound. Then, Guts (and friends) will present the album Eternal in a very energetic electro-funk live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT6yx2kTvFQ Saturday, July1st will see the gifted turntables, DJ Pone. Recently signed to Ed Bangers, he will blow up the Natural Games to the sound of his album Radiant. A haunting music, full of poetry and electronic punchlines. The evening will switch to pop and jazz with Soom T, influenced from Jackson 5 to Steve Wonder. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wzEQ_nCjcY&list=PLDz5j74WhIZ58p6Ra78aNwBM-Ogcd_a9d
Sunday, July 2, birthday party.
If this evening is the first paying in the history of the Natural Games, it is because the organizers wanted to strike a big blow. No less than four artists will succeed each other, starting with the singer Oliva Ruiz who will present her new album to our body-lovers. It will then be Patrice's turn to enchant the public with his bubbling and personal soul. Change of tone but always travel with the Chinese Man collective. For their return to the Natural Games, the masters of sampling bring back in their suitcases their second album Shikantaza with Indian, African, Asian sounds, etc. Enough to set fire to the powder. A fire that is not likely to go out with Birdy Nam Nam. These nocturnal birds will make the bodies dance until the end of the night in an energetic and powerful live. We are already looking forward to it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QorsPPm3Pg If you haven't taken your seats for Sunday night yet, it's this way.
