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I will be traveling to Paris in June for 1 week and looking for recommendations on guitar shops, luthiers, and venues to see live music. Throw them all at me. Many thanks! If the right guitar speaks to me I may have to bring one home. Looking for your experience and expertise.
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Never been there - but opening the homepage for the first time really blew me away - and still does:
That is the old RF Charle store. Pretty neat history.
Wim Glenn oƃɐɔᴉɥƆModerator 503 February 2015 edited February 2015 Posts: 1,242
* The best and biggest is Guitare Village as already mentioned. It's a little outside the ring road of paris.
* RF Charle is a beautiful shop definitely worth a visit. It's right in the centre near the Louvre.
* Dupont showroom has many guitars but unfortunately they are all duponts. Avenue Daumesnil in the 12eme.
* Don't overlook private sales, you can find some great bargains on leboncoin.fr
* You can usually find a few gypsy guitars in most regular guitar shops in Paris! Rue de Douai in Pigalle is a hotspot, virtually every shop on the street is selling guitars or sex. Rue de Rome in the 8eme is also a great spot for instruments, and if you are already visiting JB Castelluccia you will be very close, just have a walk around near there.
and a guy on the forums mitch mercier always seems to have a guitar or two for sale! he has quite a collection
this map helps : https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?msa=0&mid=zAIXQdEIIe-s.kdZcftOscJ8w
Second nearly everything @Willie mentioned.
For some gigs:
The next you'll need to check calendars for:
Casanova shop, as mentioned above, is a must. I feel it is possibly the most beautiful and perfect guitar shop in the world and Jerome is a great guy. There are always some nice guitars there and the Galerie Vero Dodat is a fine bit of Belle Epoque architecture worth seeing for its own sake. Castellucia will have a few guitars in the shop but he is generally pretty busy with his work and is not a chatty fellow. I'd only go there if I were fairly serious about buying a Castellucia guitar. Some French is pretty important for both of these shops.
I don’t know of any guitar shops, but I know a little hole in the wall that has a cassoulet that would make an old French grandma cry. Tallen PM me for info.
About 3 weeks out. Any leads on shows/events in Paris June 18-23? I won't be able to make it to Samois for the Fest that weekend unfortunately, but maybe some players will be in Paris? Any tips appreciated, Thanks.
Here's a site that lists many music shows/events on a daily basis. Might be able to find some gems:
Also, there will already be people at Samoreau, outside Fontainebleau. It wouldn't be a terribly long trip to get there from Paris if you find the time.