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Events, festivals, and venues: French-language popular music: chanson, variete, French pop, and yeye

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Bobino

Bobino is a historic Paris music hall on rue de la Gaîté in Montparnasse, the main Left Bank stage of French chanson from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Brussels Summer Festival

The Brussels Summer Festival is a music festival held each August in central Brussels, Belgium, founded in 2002 and peaking at about 125,000 admissions in the mid-2010s.

Francofolies de La Rochelle

Les Francofolies de La Rochelle is a five-day festival of francophone popular music held each July in La Rochelle, France, founded in 1985 by the radio presenter Jean-Louis Foulquier.

Le Reservoir (music)

Le Réservoir is a dinner-concert club and concert hall in Paris's 11th arrondissement, opened in 1995 in a former forge, mixing cabaret dining with eclectic music.

Le Transbordeur

Le Transbordeur is a concert venue in Villeurbanne, near Lyon, France, opened in 1989 in a converted water-treatment plant and holding up to 1,800 people.

Le Zénith Paris

Le Zénith Paris, also known as Zénith Paris - La Villette, is a modular concert hall of about 6,300 capacity in the Parc de la Villette, Paris, opened in 1984.

Les Francofolies de Spa

Les Francofolies de Spa is an annual festival of French-language music held each July in Spa, Belgium, founded in 1994 and among the country's largest music events.

Les Nuits de Fourvière

Les Nuits de Fourvière is an annual multidisciplinary performing-arts festival held each summer in Lyon, France, mainly at the Roman theaters on the Fourvière hill, dating to 1946.

Palais des Sports (Paris)

The Palais des Sports (Palais des Sports de Paris), today the Dôme de Paris, is an indoor arena at the Porte de Versailles in Paris, opened in 1960.

Ronquières Festival

The Ronquières Festival is a three-day pop-rock festival held since 2012 at the Plan Incliné canal boat lift in Ronquières, Belgium, drawing up to 80,000 visitors.