Orange Fete de la Musique Botswana

Orange Fete de la Musique Botswana is the Gaborone edition of Fete de la Musique, the free, street-level music day founded in France in 1982 and now marked in cities worldwide around June 21. Orange, the telecom operator active across much of francophone and southern Africa, sponsors a Gaborone program of free outdoor performances spanning multiple genres, giving local and touring musicians open-air stages without ticket barriers.

Fete de la Musique began in France in 1982, when the country's Ministry of Culture launched a day of free, spontaneous music performances timed to June 21, and the idea spread over subsequent decades to cities across dozens of countries, each adapting the format to local musicians and venues while keeping its defining principle: performances are free to attend and open to a wide range of genres and skill levels, from professional acts to amateur street musicians.