Hauts de France: Its brass bands and the Carnival

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The region holds a record: that of the largest number of brass bands, drum-bands, and wind bands! Deeply attached to their musical society, amateur musicians perpetuate the ideal of these groups: "music of the people, performed by the people." This music of the people still sets the rhythm for the carnival processions: on the scale of a neighborhood or a metropolis! You have to come to Flanders around Mardi Gras! Every year, towns and villages are adorned with colors. The streets are invaded by the joyful crowd of carnival-goers led by the drum major. Songs and dances harmonize to the rhythm of the brass bands...

Carnival is historically a time of entertainment during which the established order is disrupted. Children become adults, men become women... everyone goes around wearing makeup or masks, in disguise, daring to have fun without complexes.

Conventions and social rules are modified, shaken up, forgotten...

Illustrations of conviviality, the sense of celebration and joy, the carnivals in Hauts de France are events not to be missed.

The inhabitants of Hauts de France love the unusual and the mixing of genres!

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