Alliance Française du Bengale (AFdB) and Littlei have  been hosting a week-long series of concerts called ‘Fête de la Musique’ at Kolkata’s Sienna Cafe, featuring acts like The Fifth Harmony, 5Volts and Mondegreen. On Friday, the series concludes with an open mic and performances by students of AFdB.

Meanwhile, in Hyderabad, Alliance Française of Hyderabad is hosting more than 200 musicians across 14 different venues on June 23, curating everything from Carnatic music, Hindustani classical music to fusion.

The New Delhi branch of Alliance Française of will also celebrate the day at its own premises with a “Make music” competition for its students, a performance by New Delhi-based Congolese music collective 4-AF and a DJ set by DJ ROLI.

New Delhi-based online community radio boxout.fm and Indian specialty coffee brand Blue Tokai Coffee Roasters are collaborating on Friday to host a 12 hour-long celebration. boxout.fm will be doing a live broadcast before hosting panels and discussions at the Saidulajab branch of Blue Tokai Coffee Roasters.

For one of the panels, Qilla Records’ Madhav Shorey, Azadi Records’ Uday Kapur and Dhruv Singh from Pagal Haina  discussed ‘starting up your own record label’ with boxout.fm co-founder Mohammad Abood aka DJ MoCity acting as moderator. Later on, UnMute’s Dev Bhatia moderated a discussion on ‘the use of non-traditional spaces for music performance’ featuring Rana Ghose from REProduce, Sofar Sounds NCR’s Tanya Nath and Warpcore founder Sahil Mohan Gupta.

Following the panels, the celebration featured  live music from Songs For A Tired City, Dolorblind, Shoals, and Ditty, before concluding with a DJ set from Boxout Soundsystem.

The whole programme is being  streamed over boxout.fm for a special 12-hour long broadcast.

Vh1 and MTV Beats celebrate World Music Day with a 24-hour long stream over Facebook live. The webcast will feature live performances from a lineup which spans across multiple genres and includes more than 40 artists including SickFlip, Mali, Darshan Raval, Su Real, Easy Wanderlings, FuzzCulture, Nothing Anonymous, Swadesi, Seedhe Maut, Tienas, FOPCHU and Nikhita Gandhi.

Bringing together audiences from different music cultures, Long LIVE Music will be the first of its kind online music festival for India.

  World Music Day