MUSIC FESTIVAL. In June 2022, La Fête de la Musique celebrates its fortieth anniversary with many events planned throughout France.
[Mis à jour le 16 juin 2022 à 14h46] The Music Festival is back in color. After two years marked by health restrictions linked to the Covid-19 pandemic, music is about to make France vibrate again. A popular and free event, every year since 1982, the Fête de la Musique has been organized all over the country and is therefore celebrating its 40th anniversary this year!
“This edition gives us the opportunity to return to the fundamentals of the Fête de la Musique, to emphasize the principles that presided over its creation: a festive, popular and spontaneous event, which is aimed at all audiences. and which aims to highlight and promote amateur practices”, is it underlined in a communicated of the Ministry of Culture.
Street concerts, in theaters, in cafes, bars or restaurants, this year again, many events are organized.
As everywhere in France, the capital will also vibrate on June 21. Dozens of bars, cafes, restaurants, concert halls or street corners will offer regulars and the curious various events.
- Army Museum: offers to discover its collections in music
- Music festival at the Petit Palais
- Radio France auditorium: an evening with the Viva l’Orchestra orchestra.
- The Fip Music Festival: the radio organizes a concert at the Arènes de Lutèce, with Metronomy, Ibeyi, Laurent Bardainne and Bertrand Belin in particular. Reservations open this Friday, June 10 at 10 a.m. on the site of the House of Radio and Music.
- Palais-Royal: the Ministry of Culture organizes an open stage bringing together amateurs and professionals, young talents and established musicians, contemporary music, classical music and world music, with Julien Clerc, Anne Paceo, Sopico, DakhaBrakha and Temenik Electric.
This year, the big concert of La Fête de la Musique, broadcast on France 2, will take place in Montpellier, on the Esplanade de l’Europe. Admission is free, but requires registration: it was therefore possible to complete an online form, on host city website. It only took a few hours for all the places to be distributed.
The evening, which will see many artists parade for more than three hours, will be hosted by Garou and Laury Thillemann. Are expected: Bigflo & Oli, Kungs, Zaz, Marc Lavoine, Nolwenn Leroy, Ofenbach, Dadju, Pierre de Maere and Claudio Capeo. Everyone will celebrate the forty years of La Fête de la Musique!
In Lille too, we celebrate music. On June 21, many events are planned throughout the city, throughout the evening and well into the night. Among the evening appointments, that given by ATABAK, samba school, place de la République from 7 p.m. The Faubourg des musiques also plans different gigs in the courtyard of the Trulin school. On the forecourt of Euratechnologies, Le Switch is back from 5 p.m. for a mini festival with different groups and a DJ Set.
It should also be noted that part of the city center will be pedestrianized from 6 p.m. and bars and restaurants will be able to open an hour longer, until 2 a.m., when the terraces can remain open until 11 p.m.
Toulouse is also preparing to vibrate to the sound of the Fête de la Musique, with entertainment authorized in public spaces from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. Many spontaneous meetings are planned all over the city.
Note the Techno open air with Plein Phare, Place de l’Europe from 5 p.m., a Brazilian evening at the Chorus or the concert of the COMDT (Occitan Center for Traditional Music and Dance) at the Jardin Raymond VI from 6 p.m. At Connexion, an institution of Toulouse nightlife, revelers will be able to find an evening made up of DJ sets and concerts, also from 6 p.m.
On June 21, Marseille will be no exception to the Fête de la Musique with many events planned throughout the evening and part of the night. Several places open their doors to visitors on this occasion, such as the Friche la Belle de Mai, the Palais Longchamp, the Cité de la Musique, or the Italian Cultural Institute. Note also various appointments in parks, bars and restaurants, but also in the ports of the city.
Like every year, the Fête de la Musique 2022 will take place on Tuesday, June 21. A date that was not chosen at random, since it corresponds to the summer solstice, the first day of the summer season, the end of spring, but also the longest day of the year. It’s a great way to celebrate music, the arrival of good weather and to start the summer evening season!
It was in 1981 that Jack Lang, then Minister of Culture, initiated the creation of an event putting music in the spotlight. He instructed Maurice Fleuret, director of music and dance, to create this huge popular event, which would be organized every year, on the day of the summer solstice, everywhere in France. The first Fête de la Musique took place on June 21, 1982: it was a success. Thousands of events are springing up all over the country, bringing together music lovers and artists for a gigantic popular celebration.
“We needed an event that would allow us to measure the place occupied by music in individual and collective life. A spectacular movement of awareness, a spontaneous momentum to alert public opinion and perhaps also… the political class. C This is why the Ministry of Culture had the idea of organizing a Fête de la Musique in 1982. A non-directive party, which brings together all French people for whom music matters. “, underlined in 1983 Maurice Fleuret in Télérama.
Also, very quickly, the Fête de la Musique, which took hold of France and the French, went beyond borders: since 2017, more than 120 countries have celebrated music on the same day.