With the Tempo Latino festival, Latin fever in Gers

Not a street, not a square, escapes it. Salsa runs everywhere. For three days and three nights, people dance it until dawn. Once the sound systems are turned off, in the restored calm, the turtledoves start to sing again. Organized in Vic-Fezensac, a small town in the Gers region with fewer than 4,000 inhabitants, Tempo Latino, one of the famous festivals in Europe dedicated to the genre, has welcomed all the big names in salsa and other Afro-Latin music (Celia Cruz, Ruben Blades, Buena Vista Social Club, Africando, etc.). Every year, thousands of enthusiasts and fans, from all generations, flock there.

Opening on Thursday, July 24, the ^30th edition ended on the night of Sunday, July 27, at 3:30 a.m.—and much later for some. On the final evening, while the festive excitement continued throughout the city, in the arenas, the beating heart of the festival, around 5,000 people celebrated the triumph of Colombian singer Yuri Buenaventura and his musicians. Scheduled as the opening act, before the sparkling big band Spanish Harlem Orchestra, from New York. A magnificent bolero singer, a genre that weaves the romantic thread of his latest album, Amame (2024), but also a tireless “enthusiast” in his impeccable suit, Yuri Buenaventura is a “boss” of salsa.

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