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Music brings people together at Rochefort en Accords

The Rochefort en Accords (Charente-Maritime) festival deliberately encourages the unpredictable and the unexpected – individual musicians from the USA, British Isles, France come together and play solo and ensemble, from August 21 to 23, 2008.

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Raise a glass to Côtes de Duras wine festival

The Côtes de Duras wine festival takes place in the grounds of the Chateau at Duras (Lot-et-Garonne): conducted walks among the vineyards, procession of classic cars, wine-tasting from many of the local producers, hot-air balloon flights – and then in the evening la Nuit Blanche: music, concerts, DJs and dancing, on August 10, 2008.

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Saulieu hosts les Nuits de Cajun et Zydeco

Each August Saulieu in the Cote d'Or department of Burgundy hosts the Nuits de Cajun et Zydeco music festival, bringing the sounds of the Deep South to France, from August 7 to 10, 2008.

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Interceltique Festival in Brittany

The port of Lorient welcomes half a million partygoers from across the world for the annual gathering of Celts from the four corners of the globe for the Interceltique Festival.

Scots Welsh, Manx and Cornish visitors will sing, dance and feast alongside their Breton hosts, from August 1 to 10, 2008.

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l'Orange Opera Festival in Provence

France’s oldest opera festival taking place at the Theatre Antique, l'Orange Opera Festival will feature this season Carmen from Bizet, Verdi's Requiem, Gounod by Faust and Fauré's Requiem, from July 12 to August 5, 2008.

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Noyon welcomes all to its Red Fruit Fair

Since the 10th Century, Noyon, in Picardy, has been the centre of a healthy trade in cherries and blackcurrants and its Red Fruit Fair takes place around the cathedral. Producers will display strawberries, raspberries, blackcurrants, loganberries and cherries, on July 6, 2008.

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Bayeux and its Medieval Festival

During the two-day Medieval Festival, in Bayeux, Normandy, visitors will be able to enjoy the skills of jugglers, knights, craftsmen and musicians. And let's face it if one place should do Medieval properly it is Bayeux, on July 5 and 6, 2008.

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Experience the world of Grace Kelly in Paris

THE world of Grace Kelly is on display at the Hotel de Ville de Paris featuring photographs by Howell Conant, Cecil Beaton and Irving Penn as will pieces of personal correspondence by the Princess with Jackie Kennedy, Alfred Hitchcock, Maria Callas and Cary Grant to name but a few.

Extracts from some of Grace Kelly’s most renowned films made under the directorship of Alfred Hitchcock and sequences of family films add to an exhibition which plays tribute to a woman, loved world wide and who tragically died at such an early age.

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International Maritime festival in Brest

Brittany welcome sailors from around the world to the lively port of Brest for the International Maritime festival, which offers a huge variety of sailing vessels and fleets, as well as many historic boats.

There will be 2,000 traditional and classic sailing boats, representing 25 nations, as well as 15,000 sailors, 60 coasting vessels, 300 exhibitors, 2,000 coordinators, not to mention loads of musicians and artists, from July 11 to 17.

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Japan Expo in Paris

Thousands are expected to visit the Japan Expo festival at the Parc d'Expositions, Paris-Nord Villepinte which will include artists, game creators and live music acts from popular Japanese culture, from July 3 to 6.

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