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SUMMARY:Fête de la Musique 2025
DESCRIPTION:Fete de la Musique\n“Faites de la musique\, Fête de la musique” \n \nEvery year around the summer solstice\, the longest day of the year\, both amateur and professional musicians from all over the world perform free concerts in venues throughout the Francophone world. \n \nThe festival aims to celebrate music in all forms and is open to anyone\, the good\, the bad and the ugly! \nJazz\, rock\, electro\, classical…  Although music is the star of the show\, expect street art and theatre along the way too. \nCheck out events with your local tourist office.\n\n\n\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n \nHOW IT BEGAN\nIt all began in October 1981\, when Maurice Fleuret became Director of Music and Dance at the National Ministry for Culture. He expressed the desire to “be the director of all kinds of music\, from the accordion to the recording industry”. \nIn 1982 he made a study of the cultural habits of the French\, to find that five million people – including one child out of two – played a musical instrument. \nHe also wanted to find a way to bring people and their music out on to the streets. Three weeks later the Fête de la Musique was born. \n© SIPA | Crédit Média : Jean-Alphonse Richard\nThe musicians are both professionals and amateurs\, the good\, the bad and the ugly…. the festival policy being to give equal attention to all musicians\, rock\, jazz\, folk\, skunk\, punk\, junk\, vocals and traditional music\, all of which are given a chance to be heard alongside classical and so-called “serious” music. \nIf you are in France on this day it will be hard to avoid the vibrant sounds of salsa bands parading the streets\, string quartets and steel bands playing on street corners and accordionists wandering among the crowds. \nThe event has become a social phenomenon (it even had a postage stamp devoted to it in 1998) and its success has been exported to other cities across Europe\, San Francisco\, New York and Manila\, not to mention Brazil and Colombia. \nCarnival atmosphere\, food\, drink and laughter\, and music of all sorts in the bars and cafés\, streets\, squares and courtyards\, this national festival is not to be missed. \nContact your local Office de Tourisme to find out what’s going on where you are.\n  \n\n\n\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n \nShare this:\n				Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n				Facebook\n			\n				Click to share on X (Opens in new window)\n				X\n			\n				Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n				LinkedIn\n			\n				Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n				Pinterest\n			\n\n	Related\n
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