Fete de la Musique

Wednesday June 21st, the longest day of the year, is the day/evening & night of this city wide festival. Free concerts are performed in multiple venues, accompanied by professionals and amateurs on any corner anywhere! Jazz, rock, gospel, rapp, spontaneous singing along side traditional musica in churches, halls, parks - any place with an outlet for an amp. Streets were swarming with people all night, and cars had no hope of progression. The carnival atmosphere was much like New Orleans, but everyone was not drunk. Much to our pleasure and surprise, the booming in our apartment stopped precisely at midnight, and the next morning the streets full of rubbish were miraculously clean. Ah, Paris