Professional musicians partnership settled in Lyon since its foundation in 1977, ARFI (Association searching an imaginary folklore) is an indisputable joint success amid the European jazz scene. Performed by the Workshop de Lyon, the Marvelous Band (both group responsible for the creation of ARFI) and La Marmite Infernale, ARFI’s big band, their repertoire inhabits a wide musical universe: from modern jazz to improvised music, ARFI’s music speaks many languages. It is alive, learned and popular, traditional and modern, inspired, playful and played in all kind of circonstances.
Imaginative Families :
ARFI operates almost like a big family. There are 15 permanent members in the collective and about 30 artists associated regularly.
Every musician participates in the shaping of the ensemble fantasy world, this famed Folklore Imaginaire, playful and festive, unreasonable and spontaneous.
It is an unrestrained and multiform universe, made of various bands, as if they were branches of the same tree.