Get Your Fête Wet!

It's the first day of summer! And the longest day of the year! (But talking figuratively, it was April 5th, my prefecture meeting, mheh.) In these parts that means Fête de la Musique!

I used to go to the "Fête" gigs in Manila, and now I can really get into the spirit of things.

One of the best things about Paris are the buskers, the street musicians and graffiti artists. When my family was here they were treated to a brass band concert at the Pompidou. Got my brother to shell out 10 euros for the CD. They heard musicians in the Metro and in the tree lined avenues. Music and art are everywhere,  you only have to step outside.

Belgian singer Selah Sue on the steps of the Sacre Coeur.

If you did that in the Philippines, a security guard would shoo you away. In Manila, that's called mendicancy.

The bad news is that it's been raining for 2 weeks and the meteo took back its earlier forecast of sunny weather because it's obviously not happening - in Paris, at least. But we're still taking the scooter, weather and RER strikes be damned, for the love of musique and a lack of better things to do.