Dancing in the Streets (of Dijon)
Last night France celebrated the first day of summer with its annual La Fête de la Musique. What this means is that the streets, usually deserted after businesses close at 7:00 P.M., become filled with an amazing amout of people!
And of course, like I witnessed last year, there was lots of American (though some could argue British) cultural influences to be found around every corner.
Yes, indeed. Almost 100% of the music I heard was sung (or I should say, screamed) in English. I heard mainly covers of alternative rock and hard rock bands. But we also heard some Irish music and saw traditional Irish dancing and here’s the bagpipers to prove it.
An “official” concert also took place in the courtyard of the archaeological museum to kick off the Tribu Festival concert series happening all this week.
Tonight there were three bands from the “new Polish music scene” which I found fun to listen to because I can understand Polish. However, I found it bizarre at the same time since the only Polish music I ever heard while growing up was Polka!
Here was the line-up:
Skalpel, an interesting cross between jazz/rap/techno;
Fisz, more of a hip-hop style;
unfortunately we missed the first band, The Adam Pieronczyk Trio.
I tried to use my digital camera to capture some of the sounds for you but was only able to film a few seconds at a time.
Click here for my very own mini-QuickTime-Popup music video.