Fête de la Musique 2024: jazz and rock at Sceaux (92)

The Fête de la musique returns to Paris and everywhere else in the Île-de-France region this Friday, June 21, 2024! The good news is that this year, this popular and festive event falls on a Friday. So there's plenty of time for a nice long evening of music before the weekend!

The country's first Fête de la Musique took place in 1982. The event was the brainchild of Jack Lang, then Minister of Culture, Maurice Fleuret and Christian Dupavillon, architect-scenographer and cabinet member. Their idea? To launch a major popular event enabling all musicians to play and make a name for themselves during a festive evening.

And it's been a huge success for over 40 years now! Every June 21, budding musicians and singers take to the streets to bring the sound of live music to life. Rock, rap, pop, electro, reggae, classical, zouk, funk, metal, French variety, blues and jazz are all on the bill...

Live music can be heard in every district of Paris during the Fête de la musique, but it's not the only one... There's plenty to discover elsewhere in the Île-de-France region, including in Sceaux. This commune in the Hauts-de-Seine department, located 5 km south of Paris, is best known for its sublime Domaine départemental. A classic 17th-century park, the Domaine départemental de Sceaux welcomes many regular visitors and curious onlookers every year. The park is also famous for its cherry trees, which blossom every spring.

To mark the Fête de la Musique 2024, on Friday June 21, the town of Sceaux is once again getting in on the action, with a series of free concerts open to all, from 4pm to midnight. Here's the program!

• To be read
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Fête de la Musique 2024 à Sceaux, the program

ORCHESTRAS AT THE TOWN HALL

• From 6.30pm to 8pm at Hôtel de Ville (122 rue Houdan): enjoy a concert by the Tentet de jazz and the Premières Cordes, Sinfonia and Grandes Cordes orchestras of the Bourg-la-Reine/Sceaux departmental conservatory.

CONCERTS IN THE MENAGERIE GARDEN

• 4pm to 7pm: Three concerts await you in the Menagerie garden (70 rue Houdan). At the entrance to the garden, near the Maison du tourisme, the public will be able to vibrate to the rhythm of pop, rock and jazz music performed by bands from the Edim school of contemporary music.
  
  
• From 7pm on the big top stage: "Music Sceaux live", a concert by artists from La Caisse Claire's "Le Déclencheur" program:
  • 7pm: Milla Leika (electro pop)
  • 8pm: Omega Violet (indie rock)
  • 9pm to 11:30pm: Magic Michel Orchestra

MUSICAL ATMOSPHERE IN THE STREETS

• From 4.30pm to 5.30pm in the square in front of the Blagis shopping center: concert by New Orleans jazz quintet, the Spécial Gombo group.
• From 7 to 8 p.m. in the downtown pedestrian zone: Chorale À Cœur Joie La Villanelle (variety songs).