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Manie Musicale is an annual competition of Francophone songs modeled after the NCAA March Madness basketball tournament in the United States. Students fill out brackets to try to predict which of sixteen songs will win the championship. Then, once the tournament starts, students vote for their favorite songs to see who wins. Songs include a variety of contemporary Francophone artists from around the world; teachers collaborate to create activities to support using the songs in class as a linguistic and cultural teaching tool.

Although many individual teachers make their own brackets for Manie Musicale each spring, the most popular version was created in 2017 by two French teachers from Maine, Stephanie Carbonneau and Michelle Fournier. They opened it up to other schools in 2018 and it has grown steadily ever since. In 2023, over 4000 schools participated from all fifty states and 23 countries. For more information, please visit www.maniemusicale.info.