Festivals near Tours

Cradled in a bend of the Loire where it meets the Cher, Tours wears its nickname — the "garden of France" — with quiet pride, and that gentle Touraine spirit has fed a stubborn, fiercely independent music scene rooted in its own soil. The city moves to the beat of its students and its community radio stations: that's the spirit of Aucard D'hiver, the winter sibling of the legendary Aucard de Tours, warming the depths of the season with curious, boundary-pushing rock and homegrown discoveries — a knack for spotting new talent that few cities this size sustain so faithfully.

Come summer, the lineup spreads out to the city's edges: just south of Tours, on the grounds of the Domaine de Candé in Monts, TERRES DU SON unfolds its sprawling eco-minded weekend where French chanson and pop headliners share the open air, while the Moorea Festival, HIER & AUJOURD'HUI and SIDFEST round out a season in which nearly every town around the city seems to want a stage of its own. FestT works out your FestiScore — how closely a lineup matches your favourite artists — and keeps dates, headliners and ticketing up to date.