Traditions iconiques - Fête de la musique - Revisited
Duolingo French Podcast
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4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
On June 21, 1981, the French government invented a new holiday. Ever since then, every summer solstice, anyone in France can take to the streets and perform music…and they do! But for Fanny, sharing her birthday with la Fête de la Musique was a bit of a curse…until she discovered how to help her favorite band take on the challenge of that special night.
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| 0:00.0 | Bonjouille dear listeners. For this special season of the dual-lingo-French |
| 0:04.5 | podcast we are celebrating the arts. We're revisiting some of our favorite |
| 0:09.1 | episodes featuring singers, dancers, actors, and other performers in the francophone world. |
| 0:15.0 | Today's episode is from June 2020 and tells the story of an iconic French tradition, |
| 0:22.0 | La Fete of the music. |
| 0:24.0 | Every year on June 21st, streets all over France open up for a night of music, dancing, and high spirits. |
| 0:33.8 | Our storyteller, Fanni, has a unique relationship |
| 0:38.0 | with this musical holiday. |
| 0:39.7 | Keep listening to hear her story |
| 0:41.2 | and stick around until the end to hear how Fannie celebrated this year's |
| 0:45.6 | Fete de la music. |
| 0:50.7 | It's June 21st, 1988, and today is Fannis 13th birthday. |
| 0:58.0 | To celebrate, her parents are taking her to visit Paris for the very first time. When she gets there, she can't believe |
| 1:07.1 | her eyes. |
| 1:09.1 | Or ears. |
| 1:10.1 | The Rue of Paris are plenty of the world. |
| 1:15.0 | We're in turn of the music, part of all. |
| 1:18.0 | He was of these artists, of dancers, and musicians. They're musicians. |
| 1:24.0 | He's day, he's chant, he dance. |
| 1:28.0 | It's allers spontaneously. |
| 1:30.0 | It's like here all the world |
| 1:33.4 | to have decided to decendres in the rue and of joue of the music. |
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