What's happening in the area?

Summer fêtes Come in July, August or September and you'll find that sometime, somewhere there's a local town fete. This, basically, is a 3-day party and every village, town and city has at least one a year. During the day there's likely to be a special market with local produce and artisans showing and selling their work. At night however, it really cranks up. Sometimes you can buy a ticket for a meal, sometimes there's a ball, sometimes there are fireworks, sometimes just music. What you can guarantee is that after a warm-up of more traditional French songs, there will be a hugely energetic 10-piece band complete with go-go dancers who will play a non-stop 4 hour set including at least 30 changes of costume and a truly astonishing range of music covering Abba to Black Sabbath. Even more impressive is that the concert is free and attended by all ages. It's very, very good fun.

It is said round here, that in the summer, there are at least 3 concerts you could go to every night. The local tabac has a sort of mini, free Time Out called Olé telling you what's on and where in the Languedoc which could be anything from Julia Migenes singing opera in Beziers to the Rolling Stones at Nimes.

Much more locally, however, there's still tons going on. For example (and this really is just the tip of the iceberg) last summer one of the local vineyards Domaine de Bourdic had its own festival which included a tango night and a Beethoven quartet in it's wine cave. There was an open-air production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (complete with two Pucks) in the park at Pezenas along with a Moliere festival and a film festival. Pousse ton Tracteur (a local musical association) held its once-a-month concert featuring Irish, African, South American and jazz bands. And here in Roujan La Maison Verte had jazz and opera concerts and a glorious, hilarious evening of comedia del arte. There are hundreds of exhibitions (some big some small), concerts in churches, wine-tastings, spectacles with dancing flamenco horses, local talent shows and boules matches apart from anything else you might just happen to stumble across.