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.

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

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