On these pages we're happy to give a wide variety of musicians and bands playing at the Fête a digital stage with a row of 'self-interviews'. Meet Banglist, the Scandipop band based in Berlin who are full of beans.
Banglist describes themselves…
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I’ve had the privilege of getting to take part in 3 editions of Fête de la Musique in 3 different cities, namely- Pretoria, Johannesburg (South Africa), and Berlin. All 3 of these experiences were completely unique celebrations of music within…
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Say hallo to the Fête de la Musique Spotify podcast! Yes folks it's all happening here. This episode features the curator of the FETE Berlin since 2018, Björn Döring, chatting to Noel Maurice of Berlin blog indieBerlin.
While you're in…
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The Fête de la Musique is all about inclusion, togetherness, cultures mixing and mashing it up, no borders and general hugs and cuddles.
Which is, as we see it, what the European project is also all about (especially the hugs and cuddles).…
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The Crooked are a Toronto-based alternative rock band. Formed from four people with migration backgrounds, it was in Canada that they found each other and a common love for their particular brand of rock music. We talk to Neelesh, a Londoner…
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I'm not going to rant, honest I'm not, but I mean really
It's the 21st Century, we're an inch from fulfilling youthful fantasies like flying cars and people living on Mars; not to mention having our own handheld comm devices like on Star Trek…
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You're young, you're old, you play an instrument or you sing: alone, in a band, in a choir? Or you have a club, a bar, a bookshop - or a butchers? Only one thing really matters: that you're doing something for the Fête de la Musique. Big gigs,…
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On 20 June last year, people in Berlin's Lustgarten were part of a Europe-wide Singalong flash mob. In Germany alone, spontaneous mass vocalising took place across a number of cities. Together we sang three well-known numbers, hymns to cohesion…
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So many stages, so many musicians, what to do, what to do?
Which is when we had our aha! Moment, the lightbulb went on (not like one of those energy-saving ones, oh no, one of the old ones, halogen, 100W, it came on like a bolt from God and…
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Since 1995 the Fête de la Musique has been taking place each year in Berlin, on the 21st of June, the day that marks the beginning of summer. As of 2018, we choose a particular district each year as our 'focus district'.
Although the Fête…
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The Fete de la Musique, now approaching its fortieth year, is of course a great big city-wide party, a time to just forget everything and have fun - playing music, listening to music, having music in the background, dancing, kicking back, you…
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Winter hasn't quite let go of us yet; spring is waiting in the shadows; and still we know that before we can say, whoops that was quick! the summer will be in full swing and the longest day of the year - officially start of the summer, and of…
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The Fete de la Musique came about as an idea in - you guessed it - France, in 1981. The story goes that Paris's culture minister found out that every second young person played an instrument and he was struck by an idea - there should be at…
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What better chance, they said, what better chance to put across that strange, small niche of knowledge that you managed to accrue while meaning to do something else entirely?
Yes, it’s true that for most of my twenties and even a bit of my…
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Since we want to know YOUR personal stories about Fête de la Musique, we search the city, we chat people up, we ask our outlandish friends and we get a pretty colourful picture. So it just happened that we chatted with Chloé who originally…
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We met Eva und Miguel who are both from Spain, 21 years old and living in Berlin! We asked them about the Fête de la Musique because we're interested in YOUR STORY and VIEW ON THINGS.
Have you ever heard of the Fête de la Musique?
Miguel:…
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