2008 Fête de la Musique
Kalamazoo, Michigan  USA
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Special Thanks to our Donors

WIDR 89.1 - Bronson Park sound

Carol A. S. Derks
- poster design

Howard Printing - posters prints

Gordon Water Systems - bottled water

Kinko's - event maps/schedules

Kalamazoo Sportswear - volunteer shirts

Heather Osterhouse - photography
Fete de la Musique - Kalamazoo

On June 21 downtown Kalamazoo will be transformed into a musical paradise. Musicians from all different backgrounds and genres will be able to share their art and love of music with the community in outdoor and/or indoor venues. Whether you’re a professional musician, amateur, or belong to a rock ‘n roll band, Fete de la Musique will inaugurate the first day of summer and celebrate the “art of the musician”.

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How did Fete de la Musique begin?

Taken from
http://fetedelamusique.culture.fr

In October 1981 when Maurice Fleuret became Director of Music and Dance at Jack Lang's request, he 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.

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