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 least one day each year when everyone…
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Why don’t we do it in the street / a guest post by Noel Maurice, busking expert and expat
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 thirties I knew of course that I was about to be…
What’s your Story? A chatt with a French point of view: Meet Chloé!
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 comes from France but has seen the Fête de la Musique…
Your view on the Fête de la Musique, Eva and Miquel from Spain: Do you know what it’s about?
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: „No, but it sounds fun.“ What kind…