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What's On in Burgundy 2010?
The year ahead…a brief run down of the highlights
to look out for in 2010 from motor sports to concerts, exhibitions
and spectacles. If your special interest is wine, see Gourmet Traveller.

Music,
Cinema, Theatre and Dance
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Sport
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Exhibition
and Fairs
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Fêtes,
Pageants and Spectaculars
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Historic
Places
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September 2010
 Montbard Foire Regionale Sept 3-6
Festival
of Courtyards, Water and Gardens, Beaune - Sept 19
Salvador Dali, 50 yrs of Surrealism, St. Philibert, Tournus - Sept 17
Festival Tournus, Uxhizy, Ozenay Sept 4
Fête du Cassis, Concoeur nr Nuits St. Georges Sept 4-5
Beaune Jazz Festival Sept 9-11 & 16-18
Bol
d’Or, Magny-Cours Sept 10-12
Musique
au Chambertin, Gevrey-Chambertin Sept 17-Oct 3
Medieval Jousting Tonnerre, Sept 18-19
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Mozart, Opera Dijon, Sept 23
Madam Butterfly, Opera Dijon, Sept 24,28,30
Horse Fair, Nevers Sept 26-27
Dazibao, Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon, - Dec 31
Vide Greniers and Brocantes in Burgundy villages (antique fairs)
October 2010
 Festival Sacred
Music of the World Sept 30-Oct 3
World Superbike Championship Magny Cours Oct 1-3
Trophée Historique de Bourgogne Dijon Prenois Oct 2-3
'Mourners' exhib Dallas Museum of Art USA Oct 3–Jan 2, 2011 
Vivaldi's Gloria, Autun Cathedral Oct 8
Harlem Globetrotters, Dijon Oct 14
Salon Pains Vins Fromages, Beaune Oct 17-18
Fête
du Vin Bourru Nuits-St-Georges Oct 23-24
Chablis Wine Festival Oct 23-24
November 2010
Dijon
International Gastronomy Fair Oct 30-Nov 11
Nevers Jazz Festival Nov 5-13
Jean-Michel Jarre in concert, Zenith Dijon Nov 7
Celtic Legends, Zenith Dijon Nov 11
Hospices
de Beaune Wine Auction Nov 19-21
 Beaujolais
Nouveau, celebrations in the villages of Beaujolais
Marché des Plaisirs Gourmands, Mâcon Nov 19-20
Historic Places Open All Year
December 2010

Truffle market Noyers-sur-Serein
Deep Purple in concert, Zenith, Dijon Dec 2
Otango, Zenith Dijon, Dec 4
Salon de Noël, Palais des Congres Beaune Dec 3-5
Dijon
Christmas Market
 Christmas Market Semur-en-Auxois
Blues Boogie Festival Beaune Dec 9-12
Autun Christmas Market Dec 10-12
Son et lumière, Palais des Ducs, Dijon
Christmas Market Châtillon-sur-Seine
 Fête du Sapin, buy your tree, Saulieu
Concert de Noël, Notre Dame, Beaune Dec 19 f.o.c.
Christmas
Market, Solstice d'Hiver, Bibracte
Taizé Young Adult European Meeting, Rotterdam, Dec 28-Jan1 2011
January 2011
 St.Vincent Celebrations Corgoloin Jan 29-30
Festival of Contemporary Dance, Art Danse Dijon Jan 22-Feb 1
February 2011
Historic
Places open over the winter
Chalon-sur-Saône Carnival
March 2011
Fête
du Crémant, Châtillon-sur-Seine March 19 2011
Nuits au Grand Jour - Wine Auction, Nuits St. Georges March 19-20
April 2011
Châteaux
open their doors for the season
Foire Antiquités Brocante, Nolay
International Festival Detective Films Beaune
Wine Fair Montbard
Quarré-les-Tombes Craft Fair
Autun
Book Fair, Place du Champs de Mars, Autun
May 2011
Classic Days, Magny Cours April 30-May 1
Salon des Antiquaires et de Brocante, Dijon
Nuits des Musées
Fête Fleur de Vigne, Quais de Yonne, Auxerre
Medieval Fair, Semur-en-Auxois
Festival Chablisien
Coupes Moto Légende, Dijon-Prenois
Hot Air Balloon Festival , Chalon-sur-Saône 
Fêtes de la Bague, Semur-en-Auxois
June 2011
 Burgundy gardens open days
L'Age d'Or Dijon Prenois
Music Festival Clos de Vougeot
Festival les Musicaves, Givry
Equi'Passion Horse Show, Saulieu
Open air Jazz Festival, Montbard
July 2011
 International Festival of Baroque Music, Beaune
Nuits St. Georges Music Festival
Couches Jazz Festival
Tour de France
Festival 4-14 Franco-American food and music Dijon
1st Pouilly-sur-Loire Festival Market
Bastille Day, Fireworks throughout the region July 14
Antiquarian
Book Fair Charité-sur-Loire
Annual Pilgrimage, Vézelay,
Musique
en Morvan around Autun
Chalon
dans la Rue – Transnational Street Artist Festival,
Buxy
Music Festival, Buxy, part of the Chalon festivities
Son et Lumière Vézelay
July & August 2011
Historic Pageant, Château St. Fargeau, La Puisaye
Son et Lumière, Cathedral St. Etienne, Auxerre
Concerts
at Cluny
Festival
of Courtyards, Water and Gardens, Beaune
 Festival
of Retro Cinema Beaune
Grand Roman Spectacle, Amphitheatre Autun
august 2010
Festival Rotruenge, St Bris le Vineaux, medieval music
Meursault Music Festival Bach a Bacchus
Cajun
Music Festival, Saulieu
Fête de la Moisson St Père-sous-Vézelay
Son
et Lumière, Cluny
Firework night Semur-en-Auxois
Wine Fair Pouilly-sur-Loire
Music
Festival Vézelay
Fête
de la Vielle, hurdy-gurdy festival Anost
Fête
du Charolais, Saulieu
Fête de la Vigne, Dijon
Blues Festival Charité-sur-Loire
Marché Bio - Organic market
Also see: What's On in France, a guide to the major events, ideas, travel, tours, holidays ....
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