Les Suds a Arles

Les Suds a Arles gathers world and roots music performers each July in Arles, a Provencal city renowned for its Roman amphitheatre and broader Roman heritage, using the city's historic squares and ancient monuments as performance venues. Its curatorial focus on southern, Mediterranean-adjacent and global roots traditions gives it a specific reputation for geographic breadth among French world music festivals.

Les Suds a Arles takes its name from a deliberate curatorial focus on music from the world's southern regions and Mediterranean-adjacent traditions, gathering performers whose work draws on North African, southern European, Middle Eastern and broader global roots and world music traditions rather than programming a single national or regional folk identity.