Did you know? The original idea of the Music Day (Fête de la Musique in French) comes from the American musician Joel Cohen, who was working for the radio France Musique. In 1976, Cohen proposed to his radio channel "Saturnales de la Musique" at the two solstices, June 21 and December 21, and also wanted bands to perform. Cohen's project was realized on June 21, 1976 in Paris and Toulouse.
1982. Jack Lang, then minister of culture, and Maurice Fleuret, director of music and dance of the ministry, gave the decisive impetus to a national music festival in 1982.
A worldwide success. Since its launch, the Fête de la musique has been encouraging all musicians, both professional and amateur, to volunteer on streets and public spaces, under the slogan "Make music!". Today in France, nearly 5 million musicians or singers in more than 18,000 concerts are performing in front of more than 10 million spectators on this day. Since the early 2000s, many countries have also adopted the Music Festival, whether spontaneously and locally or with support from the public authorities. Thus many cities in Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, China, United States, Colombia celebrate the music on June 21st.
To celebrate this day, we propose a cache symbolically placed in front of the building at the corner of rue Victor Hugo and rue de la Chantepleur which hosts the musical association of Luynes.
As a gift, the FTF is offered to everyone who finds the cache on the "Fête de la Musique" day (whatever the year)!