Florence and the Machine, Bon Iver, Sampa the Great and a blizzard of feathers headline a festival striving to recapture its pre-pandemic glory
Emphasis on full: those crowds areand Florence and the Machine, and luminaries like Kronos Quartet, Youssou N’Dour, and Béla Fleck.
For Florence Welch’s all-twirling set of baroque stadium pop, a seemingly endless sea of adoring fans is packed tight in every direction. They bellow along to Dog Days Are Over with well-earnt hope and joy, just as they turned Justin Vernon’s aching classic Skinny Love into a kind of communal catharsis the night before.
At times, the festival’s bid to recapture former glories is more explicit. The return of 2018 centrepiece Place des Anges by French troupe Gratte Ciel ends each night with winged clowns and acrobats spinning and soaring over the crowd from ziplines. As it reaches its crescendo, the aerial performers shower the crowd with a blizzard of white feathers alongside a giant inflatable cherub.
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