Fête de la musique

This day is dedicated to music in the whole of France, meaning mostly spontaneous music executed by everyone and noone.

Fête de la Musique has been celebrated for years in France and in La Châtre as well.

We started by listening to a rock group in a park near Place de l'Abbaye ("Ici, pas d’Abbaye mais un beau panorama sur la vallée de l’Indre où George Sand aimait à se promener en compagnie de son ami botaniste, Jules Néraud." (Text taken from: http://www.pays-lachatre-berry.com) but unfortunately they were no good at all.
The drummer played in own way, the bass player in another and the other followed as well as they could.
The singer, after a while, said to the audience: "Thank you for being so indulgent, having mercy on us!".
We met eight of Aurore's workmates there and also some of the musicians playing the other day at the inauguration party of Pascal's and Cécilia's chambre d'hôtes (see earlier blog post) and we also met Pascal and Cécilia 'in person'. They soon left but we stayed on for a while, mostly talking to our friends and less listening to the music.
As having been a singer myself I always try to show performers respect, focusing on them and not others but in this case, oh, la, la!

Place de la marché

Aurore and I continued to the market place were we met Pascal and Cécilia again.

Here we listened to one singer and one musician playing french schlagers and as their performance didn't improve the original, Pascal invited us for some refreshments at their place instad. A very good idea we thought.

Place de l'Abbaye

After this we went back to Place de l'Abbaye and this time there was another group, playing music being a combination between jazz and folk music and not bad at all.

Again we met other employees at the company where Aurore works and we stayed on until almost 00.30.

The schedule in french:

Fête de la Musique à La Châtre Samedi 19 juin 2010

Concerts dans les rues de la ville.

10h30 à 12h : Animation du marché par l’harmonie Municipale

15h à 16h30 : Concert de la Chorale du Collège sur la terrasse du Musée George Sand, proposé par l’Association des Amis du Musée

17h à 19h30 : Défilé en ville des Sonneurs de la Vallée Noire et de l’Harmonie Municipale : départ place Jean Toury, aubade dans les jardins de la mairie et place de la République

18h30 à 19h30 : Concert de l’Ensemble Vocal en l’église Saint Germain, avec la participation de Sébastien Gion à l’orgue

20h à 21h : Concert de l’Harmonie Municipale et des Sonneurs de la Vallée Noire, place du marché

21h à 23h : Concert de Fred Janvoie, chanson française « de Brassens à Cabrel », place du marché

A partir de 21h : Concert et animation, place de l’abbaye, par l’association « Un point C tout »

A 23h : Feu de la Saint Jean, par La Châtre en Fête, place de l’Abbaye

Concerts gratuits

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It continued the 21 of June but then we were occupied with other activities.

(Picture poster copied from: http://www.magazine-avantages.fr/data/photos/F0/7da41bf150ue2010.jpg)
(Photo Place de la Marché copied from: http://image-photos.linternaute.com/image_photo/550/paysages-d-autrefois-la-chatre-france-1117787671-1160930.jpg)
(Photo Place de l'abbaye copied from: http://martinealaplage.blogspot.com/)