Fete de la Musique!!

Fête de la Musique

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This article refers to a music festival which began in France but which is now international in various cities.
The Fête de la Musique, also known as World Music Day, is a music festival taking place on June 21.
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The idea was first broached in 1976 by American musician Joel Cohen, then employed by the national French radio station France Musique. Cohen proposed an all-night music celebration at the moment of the summer solstice. The idea was taken up by French Music and Dance director Maurice Fleuret for Minister of Culture Jack Lang in 1981 and first took place in 1982 in Paris.
Its purpose is to promote music in two ways:
Amateur and professional musicians are encouraged to perform in the streets. The slogan Faites de la musique (Make music), a homophone of Fête de la Musique, is used to promote this goal.
Many free concerts are organized, making all genres of music accessible to the public. Two of the caveats to being sanctioned by the official Fête de la Musique organization in Paris are that all concerts must be free to the public, and all performers donate their time for free.

Thats the wikipedia def. So, basically its a festival where you can find people playing music on almost any street corner. People just stay out all night walking around and enjoying the music. It was pretty cool. We only walked around for about 5 hours, and decided to go home around 11:30, even though it goes all night long. Apparently Colbie Calais was playing this year, but we never managed to find where. Here are a few pics to give you and idea of what how it went.

You can see that there are people everywhere in the streets

This band looked and sounded like they were straight out of hoo-ville

These guys decided to have free food and drinks (also they gave away the cups that we are holding.. It was a rasta group called I love Bread... or something like that. Im not super sure on the translation

This was one of the bigger venues. It was at the place de la bastille (anyone heard of a little thing called the french revolution? yeah, well it started there). It was all canadian groups playing, and we heard a really good band. It was our favorite of the night.