The Vouvant organ, built in 2020 by the Manufacture d’orgues Yves Fossaert and inaugurated in 2021, was 85% financed by more than 740 private donations from all over France (53 départements) and abroad: Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the USA and Hong Kong, and 15% by subsidies from the Département de la Vendée, the Région des Pays de la Loire and Crédit Agricole Atlantique-Vendée.
The instrument will have been financed in 3 years. This is exceptional on two counts: the speed with which it was financed, and the fact that 85% of the funding for an organ built in a municipal building that is a listed historic monument came from private donations – a first in France!
In addition to its annual concert season with the Summer Organ Festival, which welcomes the greatest French and foreign organists, the Heritage Days concerts, the residencies of organ classes from regional and national conservatoires during the Plant Festival and the Music Festival, and the mini-concerts at the Christmas Market, the Orgue & Musique à Vouvant association pursues an active policy of recordings and videos.
The concert seasons are supported by generous donors and subsidies from the Conseil départemental de la Vendée, the Communauté de communes Pays de Fontenay-Vendée, the Commune of Vouvant and Crédit Agricole Atlantique-Vendée.
