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The 10th of March 2022 marked the 191st anniversary of the creation of the French Foreign Legion. To commemorate this event, the Foreign Legion Music Band (MLE) performed a concert in Aubagne, the Legion’s Mother-house, a day earlier. During this performance, a Ukrainian folk song – Shabelina – was played in support of the Ukrainian families of the victims of the ongoing war.
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In mid-September 2019, the exceptional and well-respected Foreign Legion Music Band (MLE) performed a concert in Attignat, a small town in the Ain department in eastern France. During the concert, an Eastern-European legionnaire was praised with a great applause for singing the French Foreign Legion, a song from 1958, well-known due to its original performer Frank Sinatra. See the video.
See a cool video showing a very nice performance of French Foreign Legion drummers from the famous Foreign Legion Music Band (MLE) when they were captured drumming for the public on the Champs-Elysées in Paris this July, before the 2019 Bastille Day Parade.
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The French Foreign Legion Music band was invited to open the 2019 French Grand Prix, a Formula One motor race taking place at the Circuit Paul Ricard in Le Castellet, southeastern France on June 23, 2019. See some nice pictures.
See a nice video showing the Foreign Legion Music (MLE) while performing the instrumental main theme of the popular fantasy TV series Game of Thrones. Another nice video shows the same musicians of the French Foreign Legion marching and playing in France’s Cannes last weekend.
On April 4, 2018, the Foreign Legion Music Band (MLE) participated in opening Crunch 2018, an international rugby match between France’s Marine nationale (National Navy) and Great Britain’s Royal Navy. The event was deditacted to the wounded soldiers of both, France and Britain.
Last Friday, February 23, 2018, the Foreign Legion Music Band (MLE) participated in opening an international rugby match at the stade Orange Vélodrome of Marseille, France. The Band opened the match by playing France’s national anthem, La Marseillaise. See the nice videos.
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Yesterday, February 7, 2018, the Foreign Legion Music Band (MLE) performed an excellent concert in Paris, dedicated to the soldiers wounded during military operations and the families of those soldiers killed in action. The annual charitable concert is organized by the Military Governor of Paris. For its high prestige, the Foreign Legion Music Band was asked to be the main participant in this important event.
On July 14, France celebrates its National Day, Bastille Day. Every year, a military parade takes place on the Champs-Elysées in Paris. The French troops, including legionnaires from the French Foreign Legion, march down the street. In 2016, the Foreign Legion was represented, as usual, by the Foreign Legion Pioneers, being accompanied by the Foreign Legion Music Band. This year, 109 legionnaires from the 13th Demi-Brigade of the Foreign Legion (13e DBLE) also participated in the parade.