Fete de la Musique

 

 

 

 

Familyone at Trinity's storefront outreach center

Pretty decent crowd. People we talked to said it was even more crowded at midnight

Every year on the Summer solstice Paris lets anyone who wants can play music outdoors without fear of cops shutting them down.  Its a family event these days though rumor is that the media used to cover it with stories like 'only X killed at Fete de la Musique.'

Virtually every street corner had someone or some group playing.  We went to see a gospel/motown group associated with our church and then wandered the First arrondisement where we live. Sorry if I misidentify groups, there was too much that didn't categorize well and I can only really tell the difference between country and not country. We did see sing-a-longs, French rap, singer songwriters and something involving vocals distilled down to noise for a band that seemed vaguely 80's. Not everyone was good but most were solid and a few were amazing.  We retired just as the light faded, 11 or so, but the festival went on late into the night...

This group marched through playing drums and made quite an impression. Seemed like a mixed group of men, women and children.

These guys were playing wild fiddling music from the balcony of an art gallery on Rue Rivoli

As is required by international law, every street festival includes a Peruvian pipe band dressed as American Indians.

A hair metal tribute band?

A real fun brass group belting out pop hits.