Your place
You know you want live music, not yet its shape. Longplay works out the right format before anything is booked.
What Longplay does
Town
A main stage, the cafés and other rooms in town, the schools where it fits: several days, coordinated by one artistic and production lead.
What Longplay does
Hospitality
Several days around your property: aperitifs, dinners, late sets and one or two special moments, each with its own line-up, produced around the house and its guests.
What Longplay does
Season
Concerts across the months: a recognisable artistic line with enough variety to bring the audience back, programmed, booked and produced as one arc.
What Longplay does
One event
A single date or commission: the right artists and the right shape for the occasion, produced from brief to stage.
What Longplay does
Experience behind Longplay
A hotel weekend: 4 days, 3 nights, 7 concerts at La Forestière.
The work Programming and themes, booking, contracts and travel, on-site production, with the hotel’s hospitality rhythm.
Experience behind Longplay
Co-curated by Sébastien Girardot: 8 days, 53 concerts and 15 venues across the Massif du Sancy.
The work Programming and lineup, booking, venue coordination and on-site running.
Experience behind Longplay
A hotel weekend: 4 days, 3 nights, 7 concerts at La Forestière.
The work Programming and themes, booking, contracts and travel, on-site production, with the hotel’s hospitality rhythm.
Experience behind Longplay
Co-curated by Sébastien Girardot: 8 days, 53 concerts and 15 venues across the Massif du Sancy.
The work Programming and lineup, booking, venue coordination and on-site running.
Produced by Longplay
The single-night film from the Evan Christopher tour.
Longplay is a French production company built around swing, New Orleans music and gypsy jazz — from a single evening at a winery to a week of programming for a town.
Experience behind Longplay
Longplay is a young company; the experience behind it isn't. These are not Longplay productions — they are the work that shaped how Longplay produces today.
Auvergne · Massif du Sancy
The longest-running traditional jazz festival in France. Co-curated by Sebastien Girardot and Drew Davies, in partnership with the Sancy Snow Jazz association and AEDA Productions. The 2026 edition was the festival's 36th.
The programming and production work behind it: programming and lineup, artist booking and routing, French-side production and intermittence compliance, venue coordination across more than a dozen sites in the Massif du Sancy, artist travel and accommodation, on-site running of the festival across eight days.
Sancy Snow Jazz teaser 2026 The 36th edition · film by Francesca Musetti On Media →
Saint-Germain-en-Laye · Château hotel
A four-day curated weekend, 8–11 May 2025, at Cazaudehore La Forestière — a château hotel and restaurant on the edge of the Forêt de Saint-Germain, and the first Jazz & Gastronomy festival held there. Each evening was built around a theme, with menu and music coordinated.
Guests stayed at the hotel, ate in the restaurant, and heard the night unfold around one idea at a time.
Lineup included Jon-Erik Kellso, Tricia Boutté, Dan Barrett, Denny Ilett, Adrian Cox.
What the work involved: programming and themes, artist booking, contracts and travel, on-site production, integration with the hotel's hospitality and F&B rhythm.
Cazaudehore Swing Summit Teaser · film by Francesca Musetti On Media →
Produced by Longplay · Tours · 28 September – 6 December 2026
The Three Blind Mice trio’s autumn creation: 9 performances across France and Germany, prepared in 3 days of rehearsal at the end of September.
Musicians Sebastien Girardot, Félix Hunot, Malo Mazurié
What Longplay delivered
With the support of
Produced by Longplay · Tours · 3–10 July 2026
A July 2026 Evan Christopher route produced by Longplay across La Rochelle, the Périgord and Saint-Raphaël, moving between quartet, quintet and sextet programmes with routing, contracts, payroll, travel, venue and technical coordination.
What Longplay delivered
With the support of
From the road
The Mooche Live in Saint-Raphaël · 10 July 2026
Produced by Longplay · Tours · 16–24 January 2026
A seven-concert French tour bringing Fapy Lafertin Trio together with Adrian Cox, routed and coordinated by Longplay, with artist booking, contracts, travel, venue liaison, technical preparation and a recording session built into the route.
Musicians Fapy Lafertin, Dave Kelbie, Sebastien Girardot, Adrian Cox
What Longplay delivered
From the road
After You’ve Gone Live in Angers
Viper’s Dream Live in Dijon
La Belle Vie Live in Montargis
Little Creole Lullaby Live in Paris
Longplay produces live jazz projects. Some are tours — bringing musicians from New Orleans, London, Brussels, or Berlin onto French stages, and taking French ensembles abroad. Some are festivals and curated weekends, programmed from the ground up. Some are one-off concerts in a château, a winery, a town square, a hotel ballroom. The work is the same in each case: choose the right music for the room, find the audience, and run the night properly.
Longplay sits between artists and the places that want to put them on stage.
We work with festivals, venues, hotels, town halls, cultural institutions, and artists themselves. The job is to turn a musical idea — we'd like a swing weekend here,we want to bring this New Orleans group to France, we want a festival worth driving to — into a real event, with the right musicians, a working budget, and the night running on time.
How Longplay works
Four steps, in this order, before anything is booked.
Organisations that have supported specific Longplay projects. Each credit names the project it relates to.
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