After organizing the music festival in 2025 in Cinais, Serge Petit wanted something bigger. That’s how the new project of Serge Petit, originally from the north of France and adopted by Chinon since retirement, was born. On June 21, surrounded by several hundred people in a village that usually hosts 372, the musician knew he wanted more. So, for all fans, newcomers, nostalgics, and the curious: the Chinon Bowie Festival will arrive all summer in the land of Rabelais.
“I initially thought of Bob Dylan,” said Serge Petit. Born into a “bourgeois” family in Béthune (Pas-de-Calais), Serge Petit fell in love with music as a child. Starting with the piano at age 5, then the clarinet and guitar “to impress the girls on the beach.” Although rock was not in the family’s tastes, he later embraced it. Buying his first vinyl of The Velvet Underground, the group that introduced Lou Reed. “There aren’t many people who bought one of their albums and didn’t start a rock band afterward,” jokes Petit. His first band dates back to the late 70s, “15 or 16 years old, with a group of friends from high school. The B-Tuned.” “There weren’t many Bowie fans in Béthune, even fewer Lou Reed fans. But for me, he was my guru, my master…
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