FETE De La Musique, also simply known as Worldwide Music Day, is a music festival, which takes place in June each year. It occurs both annually and globally, with Fete De La Musique being the largest international live music event in the world. It is presented in more than 340 cities around the world as a collective celebration of music. Originally, the festival was constructed from Jack Lang’s musical idealism, but it has now transformed into a popular global phenomenon.
The festival’s distinct audience includes diverse multitudes of arts and music appreciators, and event-goers alike, inclusive of lifestyle/fashion pioneers, propagators and adopters. It also attracts the local and expat communities, from a wide spectrum of socio-economic and psychographic groups, which give the festival an air aspiration and sophistication, yet is characteristically accessible.
This year The Alliance Francaise de Manille, the cultural promotion center of France of the Philippines, in cooperation with Sound Experience Manila (SXManila) and Floppyhaus Productions, will debut the festival’s latest main stage, Fete De La Musique 2017: Palawan. It would be a first in the history of Fete De La Musique that the event would be held on a major tourist destination (Palawan), and would, in turn, boast and acclaim the said destination’s field in terms of tourism. The event will take place on 24th day of June, Saturday at the Cory Park, Provincial Capitol Complex, Puerto Princesa City, Palawan.
The venue proves to be a vast area with full capacity of holding large events, such as Fete De La Musique. Furthermore, performers were selected based on mass appeal, musical abilities, observed audience impact, and potential thematic congruence, and with the entry of this completely new market and with prominent bands from Metro Manila, such as Gin Rum N’ Truth, Bonifacio Republic, Black Wolf Gypsies, Good and Bad, Hey Moonshine and Tommy’s Hound Circus in the lineup; and local Palawan bands, such as Watching Scenes, Blue Ballz, Jeri Brownstone, Raptured Faith, Wateber, Bugs and Roots Family, and Rylodia and Flipside.
In addition, pocket stages on the same date will take place, as the World Stage will be set at the Gypsy’s Lair, a savvy art café in Puerto Princesa City, with performances by Kawangis ng Tribu, Dempto, High Hello, Siniko, Konektibo, Princesa, Ester, Simon and June Marie Z; and a House Music Stage at Pinq Pineapple with Cao Ocampo, Jake Dawson, Allan B and Dexz Bacalso. Admission to all venues is free.