Posted on June 21, 2018
The people who started World Music Day were a French Minister of Culture and a French composer and musician. It was first celebrated in Paris in 1982. Now this solstice festival of music has spread all around the world - but here's how the original country still celebrates:
France basically shuts down! Musicians take over!
"Fête" (meaning "celebration") is a homophone of "Faites" (meaning "make"), so the name of the day is also a sort of command: Hey, guys, go make some music! Anywhere and everywhere!


Of course, with all the excitement of free music everywhere, it's also a great day to enjoy the long daylight hours with picnics and dancing and assorted merrymaking! I read that around 10,000,000 (ten million) people get out into the streets for the nation's largest street music party! But even more people participate in the day in SOME way, since about 64% of the population say that they either play or listen to music during this Celebration of Music.
Also on this date:
Plan ahead:
Check out my Pinterest boards for:
And here are my Pinterest boards for:
No comments:
Post a Comment