• This year, for the first post-Covid Music Festival, the town hall of Toulouse will not lend equipment to associations.

  • There have been too many requests and the Capitol does not want to make arbitrary choices.

  • The opposition gives voice to the tune of fiscal austerity.

No concert on the Place du Capitole organized by the town hall for the post-Covid return of the Fête de la Musique.

No logistics provided by the community either – tables, chairs, stages or removable stages.

This year, you will have to come with your instrument but also with your gear and find a connection in a local bar.

So why this change of direction?

“Simply because the requests have exploded and we cannot lend what we do not have”, assumes Jonnhy Dunal, the municipal councilor in charge of the festivities.

You have to believe that Toulouse residents have a great thirst for outings.

For June 21 alone, the elected official received “more than 300 requests for occupation of the public domain with loan of equipment, against 180 on average before Covid-19”.

And this, not to mention garage sales or other outdoor events.

“I didn't want to make arbitrary choices and I decided to focus on events outside the Fête de la Musique,” ​​he says again.

“The price of fiscal austerity”

As for the absence of a big concert on the Capitole, Jonnhy Dunal “takes into account the reproaches that have been made to us of phagocyting the flows to the detriment of the other musicians”.

He is for the return of the “popular spirit of the beginnings”, more improvised and artisanal.

Explanations that are far from convincing the opposition.

The group Alternative municipaliste citoyenne (AMC) sees in this reformatting above all “the price of austerity” and of the “too meager budget allocated to cultural events”.

In a press release, its members evoke an “incomprehensible decision at the end of two trying years of pandemic”.

They also assure that it is “serious of consequences for the associations (…) while most have already programmed and incurred costs”.

The bellows is not about to fall.

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