Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Fête de la Musique

On the first day of summer every year (for about 30 years or so), the French take to the streets to celebrate music.  Everywhere in France, amateurs of all ages and skill levels line the roads and fill the squares to share their talents with the world.  For someone who has lived in a quiet Vichy filled with gray-haired people, it was quite unexpected to see the city come to life last night with jazz, choral, rap, and rock performances and to see the streets jam-packed with both the old and the young.

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Hurdy-gurdy, accordion, bagpipe combo.  Awesome performance.

Free performance by the opera house orchestra.  First-rate stuff.






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