A Japanese drum concert to celebrate the new Music Festival, what do you think? So meet just a stone’s throw from Place de la Bastille in Paris, on Sunday June 21, 2026, to experience this particularly unusual musical moment!
Good news for music lovers, since theFête de la Musique returns to Parisand everywhere else, June 21, 2026! A little reminder: it was in 1982 that the first one was launchedFête de la musiqueOn the initiative of the Ministry of Culture. This year, the studies and research department of the Ministry of Culture is conducting a major survey on the cultural practices of the French. We then discover that five million people, including one in two young people, play a musical instrument.
From then on, Jack Lang, Christian Dupavillon, architect-scenographer, member of his Cabinet and Maurice Fleuret imagined a major popular event with the aim of allowing all musicians to express themselves and make themselves known. The very firstFête de la Musiquewas then launched on June 21, 1982, the symbolic day of the summer solstice.
This year, on the occasion of the new edition of the Fête de la Musiquethe Bastille Square à Paris offers the public an unusual concert of Japanese drums. Go more precisely to theOn the boulevard Richard-Lenoir, le Sunday June 21, 2026from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m., to discover this Japanese drum show. Still relatively unknown in France, this musical practice releases a powerful energy, both visual and auditory.
Ce original and powerful concert will be provided by the Japanese drumming schoolTsunagari Taiko Centerand should last an hour, so don’t be late. The opportunity for the students of this rather special musical school to share their passion, their joy and their dynamism.
On the public side, young and old will be able to discover this unusual instrument which undoubtedly invites you to travel, thanks to the pieces played by the students. So, ready to set sail for Japan? See you there21 juin 2026 next to the Place de la Bastille in Paris to vibrate and dance to the rhythm of Japanese drums and celebrate in a wayThe originalTo the news édition of the Fête de la Musique.
Fête de la musique 2026 à Bastille (boulevard Richard-Lenoir)
- Japanese drum concert, Tsunagari Taiko
Sunday June 21, 2026 – 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.The Tsunagari Taiko Center school invites you to a 1-hour Japanese drum concert, Taiko or Wadaiko.
A festive, powerful, delicate, joyful moment that will remain in memory.
The sound that makes bodies vibrate, the choreographed movements, the momentum, the joy and the complicity that animate the players… In short, we don’t see that often.
Free show, accessible to all.
We will play on the boulevard Richard Lenoir, around the 14th, depending on the places available on the day (proximity to other groups).
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