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| Banlieues Bleues is an annual
festival that has developed in seventeen
towns in the county of
Seine-Saint-Denis, on the edge of
Paris. It takes place in spring,
lasts for five weeks, and hosts
some sixty groups from all round
the world. It is open to jazz in
very sense of the word, and to
blues, contemporary and world
music too, and offers an artistic
platform of international repute,
where creativity, unpublished
material and revelations of all
kinds occupy a large part of the
bill. It's managed by 12 permanent
staff (with 40 more during
the festival), and receives public
funding at a regional (from the
General Council of Seine-Saint-
Denis, the county boroughs, the
Regional Council of Ile de
France?) and national level (the
Ministry of Culture, organisations
linked to music).
Through its "musical actions" conducted
since 1990, this pioneering
festival has assumed the job of
heightening awareness and sensitivity,
together with more formal
practical musical training for
members of the general public,
particularly young people. These
actions are headed by professional
musicians, and take the form of
residencies, orchestras, writing /
composition workshops, lectures,
concerts and meetings between
musicians and the public, and
master-classes, and are organised
for the county of Seine-Saint-
Denis as a whole, acting in liaison
with the municipal cultural services,
schools and colleges, and
clubs and associations, both musical
and local.
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