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Fête de la Musique - Exhibition Road Music Day: Change in Acts

20/06/2010

ALL EVENTS FREE!

After the success of last year, Exhibition Road Music Day, London's home of Fête de la Musique, is back once again for the annual one-day free live music festival. This year taking place on Sunday 20th June, the event is organised by leading cultural organisations around South Kensington and will showcase some of the best new music from France, the UK, and around the world.

Revolver, Gable, Ballake Sissoko & Vincent Segal

Headlining in the Cinema

Due to unforseen health problems Cocoon are cancelling all dates for the next month. Superb group Revolver have bravely stepped into the breach and will be taking their place as headliners this Sunday. Revolver are a smash-hit group in France with 'Get Around Town' currently dominating the radio waves. They performed in Brighton in May, and the UK crowd were blown away with their musicality and enthusiasm. They are sure to put on yet another spectacular show this Sunday!

Revolver - 8.30pm

Revolver are three early twenty-something Parisians who currently find themselves all over the French airwaves with their knock-out summer song 'Get Around Town'. They're Frenchmen with an abiding love and understanding of some of classical music’s greatest ever Englishmen. They are classically trained musicians who, like Radiohead, know how to turn rock inside out. With their debut record, Music For A While, produced by Julien Delfaud (Phoenix), they’ve created a beguiling, beautiful, hypnotic slice of chamber-pop.

GABLE - 7.15pm

GaBlé is a three-piece group hailing from Normandy, France 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 the DIY sensibility and aesthetic.

BALLAKE SISSOKO & VINCENT SEGAL - 6pm

This quite exceptional duo is made up of Ballake Sissoko, 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 work with Bumcello and M. The two instruments' tonalities compliment each other in natural and unexpected ways.

Music on the Terrace

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.

My Ant

Frànçois & the Atlas Mountains (solo set)

Rozi Plain

3pm to 6pm – Language Centre Terrace

Workshops at the French Institute

Music’all, a unique bilingual (English/French) school of music in South Kensington, is organizing three workshops, open to all – young and not so young – on the theme “World Music: Samba in South Ken” to learn the flute, cello or percussions. The 1 hour workshops are all accessible to beginners and at the end of each workshop, participants and teachers will have the opportunity to give final a performance together.

Please RSVP by email: london1@french-music.org

10am to 12pm – French Institute

10:00–11:00: Flute or Singing/percussion

11:00–12:00: Cello or Singing/percussion

al fresco staging last year

European Blast!

In the Lycée Français' courtyard, a special European singer-songwriter stage will be set up, showcasing some of the finest solo artists from 5 European countries – featuring the blonde-rock singer Aaron Blond (Belgium), folk-rockers Claudine Muno (Luxembourg), the acoustic reggaeleanings of Antoine Villoutreix (France), the minimalist acoustic sounds of Illute (Germany), and the enigmatic Franco/British Sophie Delila, whose recent collaborations with Nouvelle Vague and Plan B will certainly draw the crowds!

This stage, between 5 and 8pm will be a chance to relax in the sun with a barbecue provided by the Institut Francais – truly a great European event!

5pm to 8pm – Courtyard Lycee Francais

DJs in Le Bistrot

DJ's will take over the Institut Français' Bistrot, playing a mix of party music, classic French tunes and the latest French electo to swing your hips to. DJs will include Rockfort (Ludo and David) and French Revolution (La Meche).

Come and enjoy a drink and dance to celebrate the close of Music Day 2010.

8.00pm till midnight – in le Bistrot