Fête de la Musique 2024: a retro musette ball at the Bibliothèque Forney in Paris

The Fête de la Musique is back all over France on Friday June 21, 2024, with a new program packed with musical highlights. Every year on the same date, June 21, the French take to the streets to make live music resound. So, on this very special day, budding musicians bring out their instruments and give pride of place to all kinds of music: rap, rock, electro, French variety, classical, reggae...

Fête de la Musique 2024 in Paris and the Île-de-France region: concert programme
The Fête de la Musique is back on Friday, June 21, 2024! Get ready to vibrate to the rhythm of live music thanks to numerous free concerts and DJ sets organized outdoors, but also in concert halls, museums and restaurants in Paris and the Île-de-France region. Here's the lowdown on the Fête de la Musique 2024 program in and around Paris. [Read more]

The Fête de la Musique was born in 1982. Under the impetus of Jack Lang, then Minister of Culture, Maurice Fleuret and Christian Dupavillon, architect-scenographer and member of the Cabinet, the very first Fête de la Musique was launched in France on June 21, 1982. Since then, the event has gone from strength to strength, and has even been exported abroad.

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Why is the Fête de la Musique celebrated on June 21? Who created the Fête de la Musique, where did it take place and when was the first edition? These are just some of the questions that deserve to be asked about the origins of the festival, and its history. [Read more]

Once again this year, the Fête de la musique will get Parisians and Ile-de-France residents up and dancing with a rich and varied program. This is particularly true of the Bibliothèque Forney, nestled in the sublime Hôtel de Sens. This incredible library enjoys a majestic setting, a building constructed in the 15th century as the residence of the Archbishops of Sens. This place steeped in history is home to hundreds of thousands of books and documents, mainly on the decorative arts, fine arts and crafts.

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Once again this year, the Forney library is taking part in the Fête de la musique, offering an original musical program to be discovered free of charge on Friday June 21, 2024 from 8pm.

Fête de la Musique 2024 at Forney Library, Hôtel de Sens :

Friday, June 21, 2024 from 8 to 10 pm - Free admission

• Le P'tit Bal perdu - Bal musette des années 20
  Straight out of a Parisian tripot in the Bastille district, this neo-retro ball takes you back to the golden age of musette in Paris in the 1920s! The musicians string together javas, waltzes, tangos, pasos and swing, not forgetting songs by Frehel, Damia, Maurice Chevalier and Berthe Sylva, performed by singer Sacha la Fauve.

Composition of La Saugrenue collective:

• Sacha La fauve (singer)
• Mat l'Emplumeur (bass)
• Jean-Jean La taxe (drums / bass)
• Flo la Bretelle (accordion)
• Victor La Tambouille (guitar, banjo)