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Music Day
Sign in to saveAlso known as Fête de la Musique, Make Music Day, World Music Day
annual music celebration
Key facts
- Genre
- World music
- Dates
- June, yearly
- Locations
- France (originally) World (today)
- Years active
- 1982–present
- Founders
- Jack Lang Maurice Fleuret
- Website
- fetedelamusique .culture .gouv .fr
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- party
- Country
- France
- Located in
- Paris
- Genre
- world music
- Country of origin
- Mexico
- Official website
- fetedelamusique.culture.gouv.fr
- Image
- Raga du soir au Collège des Bernardins (4730079050).jpg
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- day in year for periodic occurrence
- June 21
- start time
- 1982-06-21
- Commons category
- Fête de la musique
- hashtag
- FetedelaMusique2018
- social media followers
- 21802
- inception
- 1982-00-00
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
The Fête de la Musique ( French pronunciation: [fɛt d(ə) la myzik]), also known in English as Music Day, Make Music Day, or World Music Day, is an annual music celebration which usually takes place in mid-June. On Music Day, citizens and residents are urged to play music outside, in their neighborhoods or in public spaces and parks. Free concerts are also organized, where musicians play for fun; no fees are involved.
The idea for the first all-day musical celebration on the day of the summer solstice came from Jack Lang, then Minister of Culture of France, and Maurice Fleuret; it was celebrated in Paris in 1982. Music Day later became celebrated in 120 countries around the world.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Music Day” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.