The
"Batterie-Fanfare"
l'Indépendante de Chirassimont |
Small village of about 400 inhabitants, Chirassimont
is located in the North-East of the department
of the Loire, on the district of Le Coteau.
The closest cities are Tarare at 15 km. (10
miles), Roanne at 25 km. (16 miles), Saint-Etienne
at 70 km. (45 miles), Lyon at 60 km. (37 miles).
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Chirassimont as many villages around been
subjected to the crisis of the textile industry,
which brings only some jobs. Some artisans
assure nonetheless the assertion of economical
life. Finally, agriculture holds another preponderant
place in the village. |
Created in 1931 see
"story"
, the Indépendante is a batterie-fanfare
belonging to the group E, that means composed
of "soft brasses" in B flat. They
find therefore "clairons" (i.e.
natural, without valve, bugles), "usual"
(3 valves) bugles, saxhorns basses and contrabasses
and of course percussive instruments, mainly
French drum. It is strong of about thirty people.
It is in 1952 when the battery-fanfare participated
in its first Competition (Le Coteau). Then,
Competition after Competition, conducted by
Marcel Bénitière
from 1958 till 1993, then Philippe Vignon
from 1994 2002 and from 2005 to 2010, it acquired numerous rising
prices see "palmarès".
It is classified in Division of Honour in
CMF and in Division
of Excellency in UFF. It is led since 2011 by Bernard Roche.
In spring on 2003, a young 18-year-old musician
took direction of the Indépendante. He is
Barthélémy Jusselme,
playing the Drum, saxhorn bass, and especially
resident since 2007 of the Class of Tuba in
CNSMD of Paris.
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Activities of the Indépendante are numerous
and various. First in the village, on the
occasion of official ceremonies as 8 of May,
14 of July, 11 of November, religious and
local feasts, the feast of decades. There
is also the Saint-Cecil, the Waking-up in
Fanfare of 1st in January see
"2008, January, the 1st without forgetting
of course the Feast of Music in June. Also, and
to take her financial autonomy, the Indépendante
perform a dozen of profitable exits outside
yearly. Let us signal
finally the important place of concerts, often
on the occasion of exchanges with other musical
groups. |
The Indépendante assures a role mattering
from training to the young persons by giving
them possibility with its music school to
study musical education and practice of an
instrument, which some people can follow in
a Conservatory. |
It also allows to the young persons to discover
the community life and to take responsibilities
in the association.
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The Indépendante is at the origin of the most notable demonstrations of the village. So, it organized music festivals in 1958, 1965, 1978, as well as a National Competition CMF in 1981, a Competition UFF in 1993, and once again an important National Competition CMF in 2001, to mark his seventieth birthday. The festival of 80°birthday, May 21st and 22nd, 2011 will no doubt have constituted a new major point of this continuation of events, by the quantity and above all the quality and the variety of the Musicians and the recognized competence of the organization. |
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