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THE PAMPARINA

Pamparina

The Pamparina (also known as the International Street Music Festival of Thiers) is a music festival created in 1998 by Maurice Adevah-Pœuf who’s at this time the mayor of Thiers. Generally, the festival takes place the first weekend of July, during three days, in the medieval streets of the city center of Thiers (Puy-de-Dôme, France).

Its eclectic and international programming mixes discovery of young talents with the experience of alive legends, at the heart of the medieval city. The festival also allows discovering the historic center of Thiers, the Cutlery Museum, the Factories Valley, the Hollow of hell or the Saint-Genès Church of Thiers.

HISTORY

Opened to the public in 1998, the Pamparina comes to fill a lack of festivity at the beginning of the summer in Thiers.

The word "Pamparina" means to party in auvergnat.

The festival will remain over 17 years under the symbolic threshold of attendance of 20 000 visitors. The evolution of the festival, its enlargement, the addition of various activities in the town center of Thiers helped to double the attendance in two years. Thus, in 2014, 21 000 visitors were present, 25 000 in 2015 and more than 45 000 for the edition of 2016. The edition of 2018 marks the record of attendance of the festival with 48 000 visitors. In 1998, one single stage was situated at the foot of the Saint-Genès church; in 2010 the second stage comes to be added on the Antonin-Chastel square. It’s in 2012 when the third and fourth stages come to settle down on the public garden of Verdun and on the Mercière street and during the edition of 2015, a karaoke shows itself in the Transvaal street close to the Pirou castle. Three spaces are reserved for shows: the Pirou square at the foot of the Pirou castle, the Lafayette square and a small place down the Conchette Street.