CULTURE

Music Festival will take place on June 21

This year, the Fête de la Musique will take place and will be celebrated in very special conditions, despite the Covid-19 pandemic and in strict compliance with health rules.

« It will be a big music meeting, but without taking any risks … It is in the identity of our compatriots. We will talk about music, we will see music. There will be a big meeting of music, « said Franck Riester, May 15. « We try to offer something that has a mouth, which allows the French to sing, to play music, without taking risks. We try to prepare something […], including outside. The limit is not to take risks with regroupings, a too important mixing of population « , added the minister, while stipulating that the radios and televisions are also in the process of being organized for June 21. » France Televisions counts offer a major special program around music on June 19, in prime-time from the AccorHotels Arena in Paris, however without audience.

For nearly 40 years, France has been celebrating music at a major popular festival on June 21, just like in several other cities around the world. This annual meeting includes the audiovisual sector and the music sector. It is therefore necessary to organize it this year despite the sanitary conditions and the risk of too large groupings. Indeed, a deconfinement plan was launched on May 11 to ban all public gatherings of more than 10 people until June 2, as well as events bringing together more than 5,000 people until September.

In 1982, Jack Lang, then Minister of Culture, launched the initiative to promote the influence of music on an idea by Maurice Fleuret who had found that 5 million people, including 1 young person out of 2, played an instrument. music. It was an opportunity for these musicians to play in the streets to promote this art. The date chosen for June 21 corresponds to that of the longest day of the year but also to that of a pagan holiday linked to the summer solstice. The first year it started around 8:30 p.m. and was to last only half an hour, however much exceeded.

The following year, it is celebrated throughout France by amateurs and professionals, with the slogan: « Make music, Music Festival », free concerts are organized outdoors to introduce the public to new musical genres.

In 1985, European Year of Music, we see its celebration spread to other countries around the world. Today, nearly 130 countries and 340 cities celebrate the Fête de la Musique.

In Paris, for this 38th edition, many events should be organized with known artists or amateurs, almost everywhere in the streets, restaurants if the opening is in early June, museums, gardens and other public places.

For lovers of classical music, the Orchester de Paris will settle under the Louvre Pyramid, under the direction of Daniel Harding for fans of Berlioz, Troyens and Brahms.