Les Vieilles Charrues

Les Vieilles Charrues began in 1992 in the small Breton town of Carhaix-Plouguer and has grown into one of France's largest music festivals by attendance, drawing crowds in the hundreds of thousands despite its rural, inland location. Spanning genres from international pop and rock to French chanson and electronic acts across a multi-day July run, it retains a nonprofit structure reinvesting proceeds into the surrounding region.

Les Vieilles Charrues began in 1992 in the small Breton town of Carhaix-Plouguer as a modest local gathering and has grown since into one of the largest music festivals in France by attendance, regularly drawing crowds reported in the hundreds of thousands across its multi-day July run despite taking place in a rural inland Brittany location far from any major city.