Happy World Music Day folks. June 21 is celebrated as World Music Day or Make Music Day around the world.
The day also known as Fete de la Musique was a music festival, which began in France in 1982. The concept was conceived by French Minister of Culture Jack Lang in 1981.
In October 1981, Maurice Fleuret became Director of Music and Dance at Minister of Culture Jack Lang’s request, and applied his reflections to the musical practice and its evolution: "the music everywhere and the concert nowhere".
When he discovered, in a 1982 study on the cultural habits of the French, that five million people, one child out of two, played a musical instrument, he began to dream of a way to bring people out on the streets. It first took place in 1982 in Paris as the Fête de la Musique.
According to another theory, American musician Joel Cohen in France, in 1976, proposed an all-night music celebration to mark the beginning of the summer solstice and since then the festival has become an international phenomenon, celebrated on the same day in more than 700 cities in 120 countries.
In October 1981, Maurice Fleuret became Director of Music and Dance at Minister of Culture Jack Lang’s request, and applied his reflections to the musical practice and its evolution: "the music everywhere and the concert nowhere".
When he discovered, in a 1982 study on the cultural habits of the French, that five million people, one child out of two, played a musical instrument, he began to dream of a way to bring people out on the streets. It first took place in 1982 in Paris as the Fête de la Musique.
According to another theory, American musician Joel Cohen in France, in 1976, proposed an all-night music celebration to mark the beginning of the summer solstice and since then the festival has become an international phenomenon, celebrated on the same day in more than 700 cities in 120 countries.
World Music Day purpose is to promote music in two ways:
1. Amateur and professional musicians are encouraged to perform in the streets, under the slogan "Faites de la musique" ("make music").
2. Many free concerts are organized, making all genres of music accessible to the public. Two of the caveats to being sanctioned by the official Fête de la Musique organization in Paris are that all concerts must be free to the public, and all performers donate their time for free. This is true of most participating cities, now, as well.
1. Amateur and professional musicians are encouraged to perform in the streets, under the slogan "Faites de la musique" ("make music").
2. Many free concerts are organized, making all genres of music accessible to the public. Two of the caveats to being sanctioned by the official Fête de la Musique organization in Paris are that all concerts must be free to the public, and all performers donate their time for free. This is true of most participating cities, now, as well.
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