Le Son de la Terre

Le Son de la Terre is a 40-meter music barge moored at Port de Montebello in Paris, at the foot of Notre-Dame. It can be hired in full for company seminars, cocktail receptions, product launches, fashion shows and private evenings. The official site gives a cocktail capacity of 280 guests, a 100-seat conference room and several decks and terraces over the Seine.

Seminars and company events For a seminar the whole boat is privatized. The conference room takes up to 100 people in plenary layout and 65 in workshop islands. The upper deck has daylight and holds up to 120 people for a seminar. It opens directly onto the quayside terrace, which the venue proposes for breakfasts and lunches. On site, the equipment includes 75-inch screens, wifi and microphones.

The team offers a tailored program: welcome of the guests, coffee and snack breaks, plenary sessions, workshops and a cocktail or evening at the end of the day. The venue also lists conferences, product launches and fashion shows, including shows during Paris Fashion Week, among the events it hosts. Requests go through a form that asks for the guest count, the date, the budget and the type of event.

Rooms and capacities The barge is 40 meters long and 6 meters wide. The interior covers 300 square meters and the outdoor terrace 60 square meters. The listed spaces are as follows.

The upper deck holds 180 guests standing or 140 on high seats. The hold, called the cale, takes 100 guests standing or 80 seated, and it has its own terrace. The outdoor terrace has 60 seats. Three smaller areas, the Notre-Dame terrace, the Archevêché terrace and the Seine space, each take 60 guests standing. The total cocktail capacity for the boat is 280 guests.

Catering The venue runs a bar and a kitchen for its evening concerts, and for private events it organizes cocktails and food breaks as part of the offer. The official text does not list menus, caterer rules or the maximum number of seated dinner guests, so ask the team for the dinner layout and the catering terms.

History and setting Le Son de la Terre presents itself as a music barge with a design interior, run as a cultural and festive venue. Outside private hire it opens Wednesday to Sunday from 6 p.m. for dinner concerts, jazz, soul, samba, pop and funk, then DJ sets on weekends. The setting is the historic center of Paris, with a view of Notre-Dame from the deck. The venue operates under the Artflux name.

Getting there The address is 2 Port de Montebello, 75005 Paris. Pedestrian access is by the stairs facing 7 quai de Montebello, between the pont de l'Archevêché and the Petit Pont Cardinal Lustiger. The nearest metro stops are Cité on line 4 and Maubert-Mutualité on line 10, and buses 75 and 87 stop at Pont de l'Archevêché. Deliveries use 2 quai de la Tournelle, which matters for equipment and caterers.