SunSka Festival
Festival · Domaine de Nodris, Vertheuil, France
Reggae — dub — world music
The SunSka Festival — born « Reggae Sun Ska », renamed SunSka in 2020 — is France's great festival of reggae and Jamaican cultures. It was created in 1998 by Fred Lachaize, within the Music’Action association, with a first edition in Montalivet, on the Médoc coast. A nomadic festival — Montalivet, Saint-Sauveur, Pauillac, Bordeaux, Cissac-Médoc — it settled from 2019 to 2025 at the Domaine de Nodris, in Vertheuil.
A sustainability pioneer (the Meduli Nature association from 2005, a founding member of AGIR — A Greener Festival), SunSka has hosted Alpha Blondy, Jimmy Cliff, Chronixx and Koffee. Its 28th edition, August 1–3, 2025 in Vertheuil, drew over 20,000 people around MC Solaar, Tiken Jah Fakoly, Ky-Mani Marley and Chinese Man.
The 2026 edition could not take place at Nodris (site works never delivered, a dispute with the Gironde departmental council): the team mounted a substitute edition, « Le Plan B du SunSka », on May 29–31, 2026 at Château Liouner, in Listrac-Médoc — Nèg’ Marrons, Taïro, The Abyssinians and Big Youth on the bill. The festival then aims for a full-scale return for its 30th year, with no date announced so far — Festival TV will update this page as soon as the official announcement lands.
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The official aftermovie of SunSka Festival 2025, from the festival's own channel — the video picked in Moïse 1er's selection:
SunSka Festival 2025 — official aftermovie (Sun Ska)