Gambia Commemorates World Music Day

June 21st each year is commemorated as World Music Day, a day set aside to reflect the evolution and transformation the world music has undergone over the years. The World Music Day, according to reports, started about 30 years ago in France at a time when music was not so common in the streets of Paris and people pay to have access to music, concerts, auditorium and clubs etc. The French Culture minister at the time, decided that there should be at least one day in a year, where musicians could perform anywhere all over the country for free, so as to increase the general awareness of the audience with regards to music. Since then the day continues to be celebrated globally and its commemoration took in a form of musical concerts amongst a host of others. It's against this backdrop that the Alliance Francaise Centre in Banjul in collaboration with its partners last Friday organised a grand musical concert featuring both local and international artistes performing with live bands. The concert was divided into three segments notably Coperira dance, acoustic and later at night live band performances.

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