MUSIC FESTIVAL. To celebrate its 40th anniversary, the Fête de la Musique will return on June 21, 2022 throughout France.
The Music Festival is back in color. After two years marked by health restrictions linked to the Covid-19 pandemic, music should make France vibrate normally 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 a variety of events. Note the evening organized by the Army Museum, which offers to discover its collections in music, but also the Music Festival at the Petit Palais with various concerts, when the auditorium of Radio France will vibrate to the care of the orchestra Long live the Orchestra. As for the traditional concert at the Elysée, for the time being, no details have been communicated.
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.