La fête de la musique ...

Completely different from a music festival, the Fête de la Musique is above all a free popular fête, open to any participant (amateur or professional musicians) who wants to perform in it. This Music day allows the expression of all styles of music in a cheerful atmosphere. It aims at a large audience, working to popularise musical practice for young and not so young people from all social backgrounds. It gives an opportunity to communicate and share a very special moment through music.

 

The musicians are asked to perform for free, and all the concerts are free for the public. It’s the reason why they are used to play in open air areas as streets and parks or in public buildings like museums, train stations, castles… Furthermore, the Fête de la Musique is a way to encourage the major music institutions (orchestra, operas, choirs, etc.) to perform outside their usual locations. This kind of institutions can also welcome other types of music. In this way it offers an opportunity to develop exchanges between city centres and their outlying areas, to offer concerts in hospitals or in prisons, to promote encounters and exchanges between young musicians and well-known talents.

Launched in 1982 by the French Ministry for culture, the Fête de la Musique is held in more than hundred countries in Europe and over the world. It takes place every 21st June, the day of the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere.
Thanks to the impulse and the dynamism of the French cultural network abroad (the departments of Cultural Affairs at the French Embassies, french cultural Centers and Institutes and the Alliances Françaises) the Fête has an important international growth. Indeed, a lot of events are now set up by local organisers (Ministries for Culture, City Councils, local artistic associations, etc.). For example, in Europe, a professional and institutional network, called « Fête européenne de la Musique », was created. In other countries, the informations about the programmes and the reports on the 21st of June are less formal, there are many projects indeed.

We have to invent the Fête de la Musique again and again, taking care of each country cultural specificities. In this way, it will become a real emblematic event in most of the countries.

 

Since 1994, the french Ministry for Culture has placed the task of masterminding the coordination of the Fête de la Musique in France and abroad in the hands of ADCEP (Association pour le développement de la Création, Etudes et Projets), an independant cultural association. Working as national and international coordinator means :

• incite various entities (local associations, municipalities, cultural centers…) to take part in this event and connect people who can work together on the same projects,
• provide artistical and technical advice to the project directors and other participants,
• gather, edit and diffuse the programmes of the Fête de la Musique that will take place all over the world on the 21st of June and make known the international growth of this event,
• ensure the distribution of the promotional material (posters) about the Fête de la Musique through the cultural french services abroad.

Pour faire profiter pleinement de la fête de la Musique, des métros, bus, RER et trains fonctionnent toute la nuit du 21 juin 2013 et un forfait spécial à 3€ vous est proposé.

Cette opération, financée par le STIF, permet aux Franciliens de profiter pleinement de l'événement en se déplaçant facilement, partout en Île-de-France.

La RATP, soucieuse du confort de ses voyageurs, vous informe du dispositif mis en place pour la nuit du vendredi 21 juin.
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• les lignes, gares et stations de Métro, trains, RER et bus Noctilien ouvertes cette nuit-là,
• le forfait spécial à 3 euros qui vous est proposé à cette occasion.
Des concerts des Musiciens du métro sur le RER A
Deux concerts des Musiciens du métro seront proposés, en gare de Rueil-Malmaison et de Lognes, sur le RER A. Le groupe de funk, Funk Brass, et le groupe de jazz New Orléans, Mississipi Burning, se roduiront respectivement dans les gares de Rueil-Malmaison, de 16h30 à 18h30, et de Lognes, de 17h à 19h.

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