I rolled the red carpet for Fete de la Musique 2010 with Brussels Concert on June 19.
I almost missed London's festivities as the Brits celebrate under the European Music Day banner.
A day of 'free international music and culture', Music Day 2010 takes place at Exhibition Road on Sunday, June 20.
Where and What?
including the Science Museum, Natural History Museum and Royal Albert
Hall, will stage a wide range of live musical acts from folk to
electronica, funk to grime and classical to world."
Program shares these few highlights:
the Royal Geographical Society’s programme.
Australian-based English singer-songwriter Emily has recently released
her third album and has toured with Don McLean, Eric Bibb and Blue Nile.
French vocalist Sophie Delila and the unique sounds
of Adrian Gaspar’s Gypsy Jazz can be heard at the Natural
History Museum along with folk rock from Martin
Ledner. World music will also be on offer at the Royal
Albert Hall with the award-winning mix of jazz and flamenco
from Ricardo Garcia’s Flamenco Flow and at the Science
Museum with the London Uyghur Ensemble,
playing music of the Central Asian Uyghurs.
Some of France’s hottest musical talent will be showcased at Institut
français. Folk duo Cocoon along with
Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal (6 PM) and GaBlé
(7:15 PM) will perform in the Ciné Lumière and Frànçois & the Atlas
Mountains plus Bristol based Rozi Plain will
be on the Institut’s terrace.
The Institut Francais gives detailed notes on each act.
If I was there Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal (6 PM) and GaBlé
(7:15 PM) would be on my must see list after reading the Institut Francais notes.
the Malian who has established himself as one of the best kora players
of his generation, and Vincent Segal, the renowned
French cellist perhaps best known for his collaboration with Bumcello
and M. Hear two instruments that compliment each other perfectly. The
album Chamber Music will be released in the UK later this year.
and write scruffy, off-the-wall pop songs with echoes of The Vaselines,
Beat Happening and Lou Barlow’s solo endeavours. GaBlé’s work is in
constant dialogue with DIY sensibility and aesthetic, sometimes
literally; as the title of the first album I’m OK is a direct
reply to the question posed by Daniel Johnston, with his album Hi,
How Are You.
Before them I would have checked "on the sunny terrace of the Institut's language centre, Scottish Indie
label Fence Records will host an afternoon of acoustic sets by some of
their most exciting new bands: My Ant, Frànçois
& the Atlas Mountains and Rozi
Plain."
You can find the Full List of Events in PDF form on Exhibition Road site…
Will you play?
Will you listen?
Maybe both!