He says he wants the 40th annual Fête de la Musique to be dedicated to Steve Maia Caniço, a reveller who went missing and was later found dead after police raided an island rave in Nantes during the Fête de la Musique of 2019. Lang is Tuesday's guest of honour at the 5-kilometre-long promenade of music stretching between Villeurbanne and Lyon for this year's festival. But he plans to make his way back to Paris for the evening's festivities in the capital. "We need parties," French philosopher Edgar Morin has written of the Fête de la Musique. "We should party four times a year, at every season, what Christmas already does for the winter solstice." "The first year, 1982, wasn't a big success, but people played along and in 1983, it really took off," said Lang, today head of the Arab World Institute in Paris. Fleuret is credited with boldly declaring, "Music will be everywhere and concerts nowhere." For the last 35 years in France, the 21st June is not just the longest day of the year but also the day of the fte de la musique. Parce que lété sest commencé en musique A loccasion de la fête de la musique 2023, VL. In the winter of 1981, Lang and two close associates, architect-scenographer Christian Dupavillon and music and dance director Maurice Fleuret, hatched the idea for a musical party. The truck-top performance is a 40th anniversary throwback to the festival's early days, when French pop singer Jacques Higelin would do the same.įor the 2022 edition, the vehicle set off in the early afternoon from Paris's own Statue of Liberty, a hat-tip to the festival's international version, Make Music Day – in an echo across the pond, New York City's own festivities are slated to launch at the foot of its own (much taller) Lady Liberty, France's famous gift to the United States.Īccording to the the Make Music Day website, the Fête de la Musique has inspired music festivals in more than 1,000 cities across 120 countries.Ī couple of Parisians listen to the band Joan So and So and the Sexy Jelly during the annual Fête de la Musique in Paris on June 21, 2012. Reportage vidéo sur la Fête de la musique 2015 à Paris entre Republique, Chatelet et le Marais. In Paris, always a hub of June 21 festivities, Radio France is sending a truck outfitted with speakers through the streets of the French capital blasting beats courtesy of DJ Young Pulse. French President Emmanuel Macron shakes hands during the 'Fête de la Musique' in the courtyard of the Elysée Palace, in Paris, on June 21, 2018.
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