Concours musicale

Concours Musical

The parade passes through King Street in 1910

The Concours Musicals were music festivals held in Jersey and involving French competitors from towns in Normandy and Brittany

Pictures of the Concours Musicals are widely available, dated from 1905 to 1911. It is not clear whether the event was held every year between these dates, but it certainly took place in 1905, 1906, 1907, 1910 and 1911.

Competitions took place on People's Park, and the event also involved teams marching through St Helier. The Concours seems to have been a St Helier parish initiative. For the 1907 event the Constable, P A Aubin, was president of the organising committee and the honorary secretary was King Street shopkeeper Louis Beghin.

1911 in People's Park

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  1905 on the Albert Pier
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  A French band at the Harbour in 1906
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  Le Sap team in People's Park in 1907
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  Halkett Place in 1907
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  A French band participating in the 1907 Concours
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  Concours Prix d'Honneur winners, 1907, St Brieuc
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  Royal Square 1907
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  Rouen team in Halkett Place in 1907
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  Charing Cross in 1907
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  1907, Royal Square in 1907
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  1907 postcard

French teams arriving at the Harbour in 1911 included those from St Denis, Paris, Lamblore and Laval

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  1907 postcard
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  On the Esplanade in 1907
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  1907
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  A souvenir of the 1910 competition produced for Le Riches Stores
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  1911
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  1911
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  St Denis team in 1911
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  St Lo team
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  St Servan team marching past the Town Hall
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  St Servan team marching past the Town Hall
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  1911
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  1907, Cholet band
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  1907, Angers band
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  1907
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  1907
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  1907

A French band from Fontenay outside Nos 54-56 King Street

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  Val Plaisant, 1911
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  Bands arrive at the harbour
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  Parade through New Street
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  Royal Square 1907
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  Royal Square 1908
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  Royal Square 1907
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  The parade in Val Plaisant in 1911
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  French groups arrive at the Harbour in 1911
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  This picture was dated 1902, but that is too early for the first Concours
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  1910
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  The Aubergenville band arrives at the Harbour - they came from a town on the Seine to the north-west of Paris
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  1907
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  This picture of participants in an early concours crossing the Weighbridge after arriving in Jersey was dated 1900, but it cannot have been that early
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The organising committee in 1907: Messrs Lander, A J Le Quesne, L Beghin, P A Aubin (Constable of St Helier), Chappuis, G H Gellender (chairman) and C P Ouless

If the date of June 1914 given for these two pictures of the Fanfare de May-sur-Orne is correct, they are not related to the Concours Musical but to a separate later visit

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