Festival Le Son Continu
Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2026, this four-day gathering of luthiers and folk musicians in the park of the Château d'Ars is one of the finest traditional-music festivals in the Berry countryside.
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"For its 15th edition, this summer series of piano recitals, chamber music and song fills a converted barn in a hamlet of the George Sand country with intimate romanticism across the whole summer season."
Festival de la Grange aux Pianos
"The 59th edition of this harp-centred festival brings world-class chamber music and trad bal to a Creuse-valley village classified among the Most Beautiful Villages of France, in churches with Romanesque frescos."
Festival d'été de Gargilesse
"A two-day alternative music festival that brings eclectic and leftfield sounds to a small Loire-side town of 2,300, with free entry for under-12s and a genuinely grassroots atmosphere."
Strange Festival
"On the 15th edition of this Loire vineyard celebration, around thirty vignerons of the AOC Cheverny and Cour-Cheverny open their casks in the village centre for free tastings all day, preceded by guided vineyard rambles at dawn."
Fête des vendanges de Cheverny
"The 40th edition of this celebrated festival lines up nine days of jazz at the Magic Mirrors tent beside the Loire, in the heart of Touraine wine country."
Jazz en Touraine
"Three days of concerts in the romantic grounds of the Château de Courtalain bring a diverse music line-up to a tiny Perche commune that otherwise slumbers in the wheat plains of Eure-et-Loir."
Stars'Terre Festi'Salon
"Every Friday summer evening at the open-air Ecomusée d'Alsace, the museum village comes alive with folk music, traditional dances, storytelling and participatory games recreating the warm atmosphere of a historic Alsatian village fair."
Fête au Village
"Every summer since 1991, over a thousand costumed volunteers transform Challans town centre into a living 1910s market day, complete with goat-cart rides, maraîchin folk dancing, traditional craft demonstrations and a volaille fair."
Foires à l'ancienne d'Autrefois Challans
"In its 51st edition, this specialist festival in the hamlet of Danouet near the chapel of Notre-Dame du Danouet is devoted entirely to the Plinn dance tradition of the Kreiz-Breizh, combining workshops, sonneurs competitions, a pardon and a grand fest-noz on the Feast of the Assumption."
Festival Plinn du Danouet
"A spectacular recreation of a traditional 19th-century Alsatian wedding, staged every 14 and 15 August since 1973 with hundreds of costumed villagers parading through the wine-route town."
Mariage de l'Ami Fritz
"The Assumption Day pardon at Kernascléden draws pilgrims to one of Brittany's finest flamboyant Gothic chapels, whose fifteenth-century frescoes including a rare danse macabre form a breathtaking backdrop to procession and prayer."
Pardon de Notre-Dame de Kernascléden
"Created in 1979, this Assumption Day pardon in a hamlet of fewer than 800 people brings together thousands of motorcyclists from across France for the blessing of their machines by the village rector, a perfectly Breton fusion of ancient devotion and contemporary community."
Pardon de la Madone des Motards