For the second time, the Alliance Française of Johannesburg is celebrating the annual Music Day (Fête de la Musique). This special event will be held on our premises (in Parkview) on Saturday 21st of June from 6pm.
Different groups from France and Africa will perform on stage.
Amateur and professional musicians are also welcome to participate to the Jam session which will close the event.
The Café de l’Alliance will be open : drinks, braai, and French specialities will be available.

The « Fête de la Musique », what is it ?

Completely different from a music festival, the Fête de la Musique is above all a free popular fête, open to any participant (amateur or professional musicians) who wants to perform in it. This Music day allows the expression of all styles of music in a cheerful atmosphere. It aims at a large audience, working to popularise musical practice for young and not so young people from all social backgrounds. It gives an opportunity to communicate and share a very special moment through music.

A free and popular event
The musicians are asked to perform for free, and all the concerts are free for the public. It’s the reason why they are used to play in open air areas as streets and parks or in public buildings like museums, train stations, castles… Furthermore, the Fête de la Musique is a way to encourage the major music institutions (orchestra, operas, choirs, etc.) to perform outside their usual locations. This kind of institutions can also welcome other types of music. In this way it offers an opportunity to develop exchanges between city centres and their outlying areas, to offer concerts in hospitals or in prisons, to promote encounters and exchanges between young musicians and well-known talents.

Launched in 1982 by the French Ministry for culture, the Fête de la Musique is held in more than hundred countries in Europe and over the world. It takes place every 21st June, the day of the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere.
Thanks to the impulse and the dynamism of the French cultural network abroad the Fête de la musique has an important international growth. We have to invent the Fête de la Musique again and again, taking care of each country cultural specificities.

Program

Concerts from 6pm :

• Sol’taire featuring Si4X
  
• Alive PSJC
  
• Asokan Sadayan
  
• Universal Gospel Choir
  
• Lerato
  
• African M’Bongui
  
• Blue Idols
  

And from 9.30pm open stage

You want to perform with your band ?
Do not hesitate to contact Marion : 011 646 1169 / culture.jhb@alliance.org.za

Free entrance, bring your instruments !

Venue :
Alliance Française of Johannesburg
17 Lower Park Drive - Parkview