Fête de la musique 2025 in Paris: concerts and events in the Marais district

This Saturday, June 21, 2025, the Fête de la Musique awaits young and old alike for a series of free concerts to be enjoyed throughout Paris and elsewhere in the Île-de-France region. If you're looking for musical events in central Paris, here's a selection of not-to-be-missed events in the Marais.

The Fête de la Musique returns on Saturday, June 21, 2025. For this occasion, amateur and professional musicians take to the streets to make music resound live. Every year, good deals, artists, classical and electro concerts and unusual events flock to Paris and the rest of the Île-de-France region. The result? Every June 21, you'll find yourself lost in the midst of all these free concerts, and you won't know where to go. Don't panic, for this new edition of the fête de la musique, we're here to give you a helping hand. Here, we reveal the best music hotspots in the Marais!

By the way, do you know the history of the Fête de la Musique and how it came about? The Fête de la Musique was created in 1982 on the initiative of the French Ministry of Culture. That year, the Ministry of Culture's studies and research department conducted a major survey of French cultural practices. It revealed that five million people, including one young person in two, play a musical instrument. So Jack Lang, architect and scenographer Christian Dupavillon, a member of his Cabinet, and Maurice Fleuret came up with the idea of a major popular event to enable all musicians to express themselves and make themselves known. The very first Fête de la Musique was launched on June 21 1982, the symbolic day of the summer solstice.

For a successful fête de la musique in central Paris, here are the not-to-be-missed concerts in the Marais on June 21, 2025 !

Fête de la musique 2025 in Paris: concerts in the Marais district

Fête de la Musique 2025 at the Swedish Institute: Midsommar and three free concerts on the program
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Fête de la Musique 2025 in Paris: free Jeunes Talents concert at the Archives Nationales
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Fête de la Musique 2025: the Marx Sisters in free concert at the Shoah Memorial in Paris
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