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Festival International announces music lineup, April takeover events
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Festival International de Louisiane is kicking off the first day of Festival Month by releasing its musical lineup for the 2021 Virtual Festival.
Fans can tune in from home and host streaming parties to unite for the online celebration.
Festival has also announced plans to take over Acadiana in full force for the entire month of April. Those plans include:
Music Lineup: 51 performances by artists from around the world
New immersive programs: Saturday morning show for kids and Sunday afternoon bingo comedy hour

Festival International De Louisiane Announce Their 2021 Virtual Lineup
From April 23 - 25, the 35th annual Festival International, and second Virtual Festival, will boast a lineup representing a tapestry of cultural sounds and sights.
Posted: Apr 1, 2021 3:37 PM
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From April 23 - 25, the 35th annual Festival International, and second Virtual Festival, will boast a lineup representing a tapestry of cultural sounds and sights. The polyrhythmic, funk-melodic, grit-soul sounds of Cuban sensation, Cimafunk, are primed to please after the pandemic placed a pause on his rise to superstardom. Fest favorites and Grammy-nominated, Tank and The Bangas will provide a cross-section of aural delights cooked up in the cultural crossroads of New Orleans, and Ukranian band DakhaBrakha will showcase what’s made them one of the most successful international touring bands.

The artist lineup for Festival International de Louisiane 2021 will offer 51 performances that will take the virtual stage. Here's how to celebrate.

The duo were then joined by Eddy de Pretto and Thomas Dutronc as they pulled off a moving tribute to Jane Birkin, who received an honor award on the night. 
The group were later joined on stage by Jane's daughter Lou Doillon, who honoured her mother's achievements at the awards.
While actress, singer and model Jane herself then joined everyone on stage to accept her honour award (Victoire d'honneur).
Lovely: The actress kept her caramel tresses loose for the occasion, while she enhanced her features with a palette of dewy make-up
The two of us: Vanessa was in good company at the event as she was also joined on stage by singer-songwriter Etienne Daho

Vanessa Paradis performs in a purple tweed trouser suit in France
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She's the French singer who soared to international fame when she was just 14 years old when her song Joe le taxi shot to the top of the charts.  
And Vanessa Paradis was in her element on Friday as she took centre stage to perform at the 36th Victoires De La Musique award ceremony at La Seine Musicale in Boulogne-Billancourt, France.
The music star, 48, caught the eye in a dazzling purple tweed trouser suit and matching skirt by Chanel as she entertained those at the event.

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The Weeknd performs onstage during the 2018 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Field on April 20, 2018 in Indio, California.
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To release or not to release? That is the question haunting the music industry as the coronavirus casts doubt over a slew of forthcoming albums.
The Canadian hit-machine Weeknd held his nerve and dropped the 14-track After Hours Friday, with the cult British artist Baxter Dury also going ahead even though he admitted that "it's terrible timing".
The Weeknd's new album for Universal had been heavily trailed on his YouTube channel, which has 17.7 million subscribers.

Mar 21, 2020 at 1:02pm PDT
Swept up in a kind of unseen panic, the claustrophobic atmosphere is bizarrely prophetic of a world that is now either in lockdown, or fast approaching it, because of the virus.
Not that the three-time Grammy winner is immune to what is going on around him now. The streaming king recently tweeted a video of a quarantined DJ playing one of his songs on a balcony in Italy, the country worst affected by the epidemic.
Luckless Bob Geldof
But you have to feel for Bob Geldof, who had just released The Boomtown Rats' first album in 36 years, only for it and the accompanying book and documentary about the Dublin punk band with which he made his name, to be swallowed up in the chaos.