Fête de la Musique – World Music Day 2025

Villa Albertine is partnering with Georgetown Heritage and the Georgetown Business Improvement District (BID) to host multiple musical acts across the Georgetown neighborhood and at La Maison Française.

Interested in performing at Fête de la Musique 2025? Send us your applications today via this link!

Each year, over 1,000 cities around the world threw city-wide music celebrations on June 21. It all started 41 years ago in France. In 1982, France’s Ministry of Culture came up with an idea for a new kind of musical holiday, where free live music would be everywhere from street corners and parks, rooftops and gardens, to store fronts and mountaintops. And, unlike a typical music festival, anyone and everyone would be invited to join and play music or host performances. It is called Fête de la Musique. In French, the name means both “festival of music” and “make music!”

Four decades later, the holiday has spread throughout the world and is now celebrated in more than 120 countries. In the same way that the French Fête de la Musique celebrates the start of the summer season, this World Music Day extends an invitation to all music lovers to celebrate across the United States and promotes artists of all genres and backgrounds in the process.

This year, in Washington, D.C., Villa Albertine, the French Institute for Culture and Education will again partner with Georgetown Heritage and the Georgetown Business Improvement District (BID) to host concerts throughout the commercial district of Georgetown, DC’s historic neighborhood as well as at La Maison Française.

Save the date! This year’s celebration will take place on Saturday, June 21, 2025, with live music from:

• 3:00 to 7:00 PM throughout Georgetown’s commercial district
• 6:00 to 10:00 PM on three stages at the French Embassy’s La Maison Française

Find out more on the official Fête de la Musique website !

Call for Musicians for the 2025 Fête de la Musique – World Music Day in D.C.

Calling all singers, jazz combos, MCs, church choirs, rock bands, glee clubs, mariachis, marching bands—and musicians of all genres, ages, and skill levels! You’re invited to apply to perform at the second edition of Fête de la Musique in Georgetown.

We are now accepting applications!

Guidelines:

• You must be available to perform on June 21, 2025, for a 40-minute set in either Georgetown or at La Maison Française.
• There will be no audition. A jury will review your submitted music and materials.
• Deadline to apply: Friday, May 9
• Selected artists will be notified by Friday, May 30.

Find out more about the call for applications here.

Don’t miss this chance to join a global musical movement and share your sound at the French Embassy!

Stay tuned for the music lineup and schedule.