Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to party until late in the evening today for France’s annual music festival, la Fête de la Musique, created in 1982 by then French culture minister Jack Lang. Since then, the event that has become international and is now present in more than 120 countries on five continents.
After two years of cancellations because of Covid, the Fête de la musique is back in France with over 180,000 concerts organised on 21 June, the day of the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere.
