Back in Paris in 1982, the Music Day began to be celebrated at the initiative of the Minister of Culture Jack Lang. A year later, the institution crossed the French borders, arriving in our country and in Athens, then the 1985 European Capital of Culture, which was the first city outside of France in which Music Day began to be celebrated.

Today, 38 years later, Music Day has taken root as an institution and is celebrated every year on June 21 – in a total of 120 countries around the world – with music and its immense power reaching far and wide, bringing close to people in the most unexpected places.

Here we have collected a selection of events-actions-concerts that take place on this occasion in spots of Athens, “lighting up” our summer!

  • Herodius

THE ERT National Symphony Orchestra and the Athens Epidaurus Festival they celebrate World Music Day, as they do every year, by organizing a big concert at the Herodeum. In the first part, the leading piano duo of the last decades, Katia and Mariel Labecque and the Orchestra will perform Camille Saint-Saëns’s delightful Le Carnaval des animaux (1886) with references to Mendelssohn, Berlioz and Offenbach. In the second part, changing the climate, from the greatest artistic composers of our time, the Frenchman Thierry Pekou talks to Dionysis Savvopoulos’s Zeibekiko. In the third and final movement, the orchestra closes in a mood of musical euphoria, performing two orchestral suites from Georges Bizet’s Carmen. The entrance is free.

  • French institute

The French Institute of Greece in turn, opens its doors to…music on Wednesday 21 June at 17:30! Specifically this year, the French-Greek high school Eugène Delacroix (LFHED) offered to turn the Institute’s summer yard into… a music stage! In it, the students from the French and Greek departments will present their creations: French music in contemporary rhythms, Greek music, slam and dances. The evening will continue with other musical groups, in a festive atmosphere with funk, rock, rebetiko and Cretan music! Next door, a food truck will be available with refreshments and snacks. The entrance is free.

  • Kypseli Municipal Market

On Wednesday June 21 from 17:30, the DJs of the Athens Drunks Crew with guest guests from other groups flood Kypseli until late at night. Additionally, on Saturday, June 24, at the same time, Irie Action Soumd System take the reins with reggae dub music. The entrance is free.

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