This June 21 marks the first Music Festival since the health crisis.
If the gatherings are prohibited this evening, the small concerts, them, are authorized.
Despite the gauge still in force and the obligation to remain seated, since this weekend restaurants and bars have been preparing for this festive moment, like the establishments of the capital.
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After a last year without Music Festival, bars and restaurants do not hide their joy to find a festive moment on June 21, 2021. Some have even been preparing for several days, between restrictions and release.
Because even if small concerts are authorized this Monday evening and that the curfew is no longer in force, for the rest, the rules do not change.
A 50% gauge is still valid indoors and it is compulsory to remain seated at your table, even on the terrace.
Not enough to scare Parisian traders for all that.
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"The World Cup of Music"
On this small square in the 11th arrondissement of the capital, we are busy, we arrange the terraces, we polish the decoration. This is the case with Valérie, who sets up a few tables in front of her bar. This Music Festival, she has been working there since Friday with her merchant neighbors. "We are going to do something in the good franquette, village atmosphere, with all the traders in the area", she explains. "Here there will be a group from Bangladesh, the Italian next door will bring in a jazz group ... It will do us good".
This is also what Damien, manager of a brewery, says.
With him too, everything is already in place.
The stage is ready, the drums are installed and you can already almost feel the atmosphere there will be here tonight.
"It's a bit like the World Cup for music. We are there all together, we enjoy a moment of sharing. It will be, I hope, good music with a guitar, a drums, possibly a sax. And then smiles on their faces, that will already be great, "admits the restaurateur.
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However, not all of them had time to prepare. The authorization to organize small concerts fell late and the restrictions remain too heavy for some professionals like Kevin. "It is expensive to bring in artists, intermittents. There are people to pay ... And for ten people, we do not make a profit," he regrets. But with musicians or simply speakers, in the end, it doesn't matter, as long as the party and the music come together tonight to forget a little these long months.