Tag Archives: concerts

March 10, 2010

Nuit des Musées in Lille

Nuit des Musées in Lille
Museums in Lille open for free for one spring night, offering a chance to see the city’s finest collections from dusk until 1am. The Nuits des Musées initiative opens up museums across France to a background of debate and workshops. Over 2,500 museums of art, ethnography,... [Read more]
August 10, 2009

Boterhammen in het Park

Boterhammen in het Park
Boterhammen in het Park or Sandwiches In The Park when its translated is a free Music festival in the beautiful Royal Park, situated in the heart of Brussels. For 20 years now, this event has been a regular summer fixture on the Brussels calendar with the best that Dutch-speaking... [Read more]
July 23, 2009

Clef de Soleil festival

Clef de Soleil festival
Evidence of the burgeoning popularity of classical music – whatever the newspapers report it still sells tickets – which is clear in Lille’s Clef de Soleil festival. As the name suggests, it celebrates the summer with classical music concerts every Thursday in July and... [Read more]
July 23, 2009

Festival des Idéo

Festival des Idéo
The Festival des Ideo has so many selling points its hard to choose one. So I didn’t. Here are several: it takes place in a beautiful suburb of Paris; it features great music; it lasts a long time so people don’t get shattered by going to ten hours of music a day; and... [Read more]