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The Metis Music Festival, called Musiques Métisses is a world music festival created in 1976 in Angoulême by Christian Mousset, which takes place every year, in May or June. Since 2015, the American author Eddy L.Harris is the president of Musiques Métisses.

History
Originally named "Jazz en France" and then devoted to jazz and French and European improvised music, it quickly began to integrate popular and urban music from Africa, Caribbean, Latin America and Indian Ocean. This is the first event to highlight artists from overseas departments whose audience was limited until then to DOM-TOM's audience.

The festival was renamed "Musiques Métisses" in 1985. Playing a pioneering role, the festival showcases the richness and diversity of the current music of the South and their importance in the "world sound", and fights the idea that only Anglo-Saxons and Americans have the monopoly of modernity. Many internationally renowned musicians have made their first big French stage in Angoulême, among them : Salif Keïta, Johnny Clegg, Bonga, Geoffrey Oryema, Khaled, Cheb Mami, Cesaria Evora, Compay Segundo, Celia Cruz, Tito Puente, Danyel Waro, Rokia Traore, Kassav, Doudou N'diaye Rose, Ismael Lo, Fal Frett, Elida Almeida...

From the point of view of the professionals, Musiques Métisses is at the origin of the creation of the first European network of festivals and professionals specializing in World Music ("Free Zone"), and has accompanied the emergence of professionals from the South. He exported his know-how to Japan, the USA, Canada, Africa and now Brazil (Musicas Mestiças in Salvador de Bahia in 2010), and brought his expertise to the festivals, turners, producers, musicians, to whom it allowed to integrate into the professional environment.

The Metis Music Festival illustrates and defends diversity and cultural crossbreeding. It facilitates the circulation of artists, contributes to the enrichment of musical colors by promoting the exchange, meeting, creation and supports and develops the careers of young emerging musicians.

During the festival, literary meetings take place. Called "Littératures Métisses" the literary programmation is driven by Bernard Magnier, director of the Africa collection at the publishing house "Actes Sud".

Since 2015, Eddy Harris is the new president of the festival. Installed in Charente for 10 years (https://www.connexionfrance.com/People/Interviews/Rural-Charente-is-where-well-travelled-writer-Eddy-L-Harris-s-heart-lies), Eddy L. Harris has taken the presidency with the will to save the festival from deficit, through a nine-year turnaround plan.