Festival de Musique Ancienne de l'Épine-en-Champagne

The Festival de Musique Ancienne et Sacree in L'Epine is held each year in the basilica of L'Epine, near Chalons-en-Champagne, along with a few neighboring churches. It presents baroque and sacred music concerts, with a repertoire spanning German and Italian composers (Schutz, Steigleder, Purcell) as well as early religious music. The venue, a flamboyant Gothic masterpiece listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site, provides a striking acoustic and visual setting for the concerts.