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Top 3 Festivals on the French Riviera
It’s difficult not to get a reason to pass some time in the south of France. The Cote d’Azur boasts a fantastic 300 days of sun a year and the area offers 115 km of coastline including some of the world’s most gorgeous beaches. Chuck in breathtaking luxury holiday villas, exceptional wines, the glorious Mediterranean cuisine, resort living, designer shopping and if you are still short of tantalizing, consider the pull of some of the region’s best festivals.
The World Famous Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Film Festival, held every year in May, is the main attraction across the whole of the French Riviera. Spanning 12 days, the film festival draws over 30,000 film stars and their entourages, as well as producers, distributors, and directors. A glittering, red-carpet event ideal for celebrity-spotting opportunities, the main focus is on the 20 major films placed in competition that may, at the end of the festival, receive awards for best director and best actor and actress with one film taking the coveted Palme d’Or.
Though it is not possible to get in to see a competition film, there are plenty of showings the public can attend, including those films screened in the Directors Fortnight. Lately, there have also been nightly screenings of festival classics on the beach, a beautiful, refreshing location which has always proven to be very popular.
The Carnival in Nice
Carnival, the gem of the winter season in Nice, starts in Feb, before Fat Tuesday (the day before Ash Wednesday). Unlike the New Orleans Mardi Gras, spectators do not participate with masks and costumes, but this does not reduce the thrill of the revelry marked by flowers, parades, local events, and all sort of free activities.
The modern celebration of Carnival dates to 1873. There are parades 3 or 4 afternoons in the week, most free, as well as a “Bataille des Fleurs” with floats gorgeously decorated in flowers. The final weekend contains the “Bartenders Race” and the last night the Carnival King is set on fire and set adrift at sea against a background of fireworks.
Jazz a Juan Jazz Festival
Held annually in mid-July in Juan-les-Pins, Jazz a Juan holds the excellence of being the oldest steadily running jazz festival in all of Europe and has been home to performances by greats like Miles Davis, Ray Charles, Charles Mingus, Ella Fitzgerald, and Sonny Rollins. Staged against an ocean background and framed by the local pines, the holiday consistently draws top artists and also has ancillary concerts by local performers.
Tickets (which can sometimes be acquired online) may or may not be for stated seating. The location is , however , quite tiny and the acoustics are superior, so all seats afford an excellent musical experience. Juan-les-Pins is easily accessed from other parts of the Cte d’Azur by train and bus.
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Miles Davis & John Coltrane – So What (Live Video)
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Betty Davis Magnet $2.00 Miss Davis supposedly has a tattoo that says “This ass invented fusion.” This would in fact be a credible claim as she was the young muse and wife (for about a year) that turned middle aged Miles Davis out, and resulted in Bitches’ Brew. Later, Betty Davis made a mark as a musician herself – and muse thereby to Macy Gray among others. Dig “If I’m in Luck I Just Might Get Picked Up.”… |
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Young Miles Davis Magnet $2.00 This refrigerator magnet features an image of young Miles Davis playing trumpet… |
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Miles Davis – Greatest Hits (Coaster) “Coaster” is made from the label (center) portion of some of your favorite records. Coaster has 1/8″ cork on one side and receives a light spray seal…. |
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Kind of Blue $3.85 Our Seller’s Notes and Fine Print :..From Columbia on CD..remaster….. |
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Time Out $4.35 Includes TAKE FIVE and BLUE RONDO A LA TURK. As the Dave Brubeck Quartet. Stickered: JAZZ MASTERPIECE 20-bit remastered…. |
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Kind of Blue (180g Vinyl) $12.48 This is the one jazz record owned by people who don’t listen to jazz, and with good reason. The band itself is extraordinary (proof of Miles Davis’s masterful casting skills, if not of God’s existence), listing John Coltrane and Julian “Cannonball” Adderley on saxophones, Bill Evans (or, on “Freddie Freeloader,” Wynton Kelly) on piano, and the crack rhythm unit of Paul Chambers on bass and Jimmy C… |
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Hope & Glory [VHS] $8.59 This winning 1987 epic written and directed by John Boorman (Deliverance, The General) serves as a picaresque and semi-autobiographical remembrance of a boy’s coming of age during the Second World War. Exhibiting a defiant and humorous take on life during the London blitz, the family of the young boy at the center of the story (Sebastian Rice-Edwards) is a close-knit and resilient bunch, undeterre… |
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The Dark Secret of Harvest Home [VHS] $59.98 … |
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Free to Be You and Me [VHS] $14.95 Like Schoolhouse Rock, Marlo Thomas’s 1970s children’s TV show, Free to Be… You and Me met with immediate success and became a treasured piece of entertainment over the years. Based on her award-winning album of songs, skits, and comedy, Free to Be explores the infinite possibilities of childhood. Fans know most of the skits in the 45-minute show verbatim, and it’s easy to see why right … |
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