"In the 19th century: each town had its own music kiosk. Bourges is no exception to the rule, even if it realizes its own late. Numerous projects were set up in 1875, without materializing.
André Petitjean, municipal architect, presented a project in 1908 including an octagonal pavilion, ornamented iron columns, an iron balustrade, a metal frame and a masonry base. It is the Larchevêque company, from Mehun sur Yèvre, specializing in artistic ironwork, which will build the kiosk in the Archbishopric garden.
On May 11, 1908, the top of the kiosk was completed and painted and the eight columns arrived on site in June. It seems that there was no official inauguration, but the kiosk was used from July of that same year, during the Feast of the Muses.
It was on September 8, 1908 that the kiosk experienced historic success with the Military Music Festival. More than 600 musicians from a dozen bands or bands of the 8th Army Corps meet there. No less than 5,500 travelers arrive at Bourges station, the crowd is estimated between 10 and 40,000 people.
The kiosk benefited from a complete renovation during the summer of 2009. The roof was replaced, the ironwork repainted, the stone copings reworked and the wooden ceiling cladding changed.
The kiosk in the garden of the Town Hall now hosts a dance hall every Sunday afternoon on sunny days."