Les Arches en Jazz
Jazz and improvised music festival in Port-Bail-sur-Mer
2026
About Les Arches en Jazz
Every year, Les Arches en Jazz brings a series of concerts to Port-Bail-sur-Mer, celebrating jazz and improvised music, including blues, soul, and world music. The festival is hosted by the Jazz et Musiques en Cotentin association, which also organizes seasonal concerts and educational outreach programs in schools across the northern Cotentin region. The lineup features ensembles from all over France alongside local artists based in Normandy, with performances held at various venues throughout the town, including the media library, the Denneville-Plage chapel, the salle Émile-Jeanne, and the harbor.
Les Arches en Jazz — edition 2026
For its sixth edition, Les Arches en Jazz brings its concerts to the local library, the Denneville-Plage chapel, the Salle Émile-Jeanne, and the port of Port-Bail-sur-Mer from September 17th to 20th, 2026. The weekend features the Harmen trio, the Daniel Zimmermann quartet, and the Morfin & Ziad duo, alongside a film screening dedicated to trumpeter Chet Baker and a dance party led by Papanosh.
Programme Les Arches en Jazz 2026
Thursday, September 17th, 2026
- 8:30 PM — Trio Jourdan · Médiathèque, Port-Bail-sur-Mer (free)
- 8:30 PM — Screening of the film Let's Get Lost by Bruce Weber, dedicated to trumpeter Chet Baker · Cinéma Le Rialto, La Haye (€5.50)
Friday, September 18th, 2026
- 3:00 PM — EDEMZI (Ziad Ben Youssef, Édouard Lhoumeau, Emmanuel Heredia y Brigant), special performance for local schools · Chapelle de Denneville-Plage (free)
- 5:00 PM — Olive & Les Baronnes (Olive Malleville, Annette Banneville, Guylaine Cosseron) · Médiathèque, Port-Bail-sur-Mer (free)
- 8:30 PM — Trio Harmen (Clémence Gaudin, Mathias Lévy, Rémi Sciuto) and Daniel Zimmermann 4tet / « Snapshots » (Daniel Zimmermann, Pierre Durand, Élise Blanchard, Julien Charlet) · Salle Émile Jeanne, Saint-Lô-d'Ourville (€12)
Saturday, September 19th, 2026
- 12:00 PM — Deux souffleurs sur un fil (Daniel Zimmermann, Éric Séva) · Chapelle de Denneville-Plage (€12)
- 5:00 PM — EDEMZI (Ziad Ben Youssef, Édouard Lhoumeau, Emmanuel Heredia y Brigant) · Chapelle de Denneville-Plage (€12)
- 8:30 PM — Morfin & Ziad (Séverine Morfin, Malik Ziad) and [Elles] (Sandra Nkaké, Jî Drû, Paul Colomb) · Salle Émile Jeanne, Saint-Lô-d'Ourville (€12)
Sunday, September 20th, 2026
- 12:00 PM — Papanosh, « Tu-danses-tu ? » dance party (Alejandra Charry, Quentin Ghomari, Raphaël Quenehen, Jean-François Riffaud, Thibault Cellier, Jérémie Piazza) · Le havre de Port-Bail (free)
Program published by the organizing association on its official website.
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