Les FrancoFolies de Montreal: Major French and English music festival

FrancoFolies de Montreal

The Montreal FrancoFolies is the larger annual music and performance festival presented Downtown Montreal, showcasing more than one thousand French-language performing artists coming from all around the globe.

Since 1989, music lovers and the world are talking about a Montreal FrancoFolies annual event not to be missed.

The 24th edition, taking place on and around the Place des Festivals in the Quartier des spectacles from 8 to June 16, will demonstrate once again with gusto.

In each edition, this vibrant festival known reinvent itself by offering a program that pairs harmoniously the great silversmiths of French song to his talented new artisans. And this, again incorporating a series of musical encounters a unique and exotic fragrance.

Although the official schedule for the FrancoFolies 2012 will be announced in spring, the organizers have already announced that visit the beautiful places, not the mouth water, but the music by ear. Julien Clerc, Aufray Hughes, Jean-Louis Murat, Zaz, Thomas Fersen and Cali duo with pianist Steve Nieve … these are names that promise already beautiful moments of musical emotion.

Throughout their history, the Montreal Festival have gradually emerged as one of the most animated display cases and deemed the world of Francophone Festival music.

Moreover, with programming that includes in excess of 250 shows, including three quarters in the open and free, attended by some 1,000 artists and nearly a million spectators, the event is unparalleled in North America.

Whether in an interior room or one of seven outdoor stages, this performance festival testify to the richness of French music and its ability to bring people together in a festive setting.

Add the zest for life of Montrealers to bring out the atmosphere and you have an event that has all the qualities required to entertain everyone … madly!

A Paris New York New York or Paris?

Instead, you will discovered a city full of contrasts of so many different personalities.
Of course, the old-world charm and the excitement of the New World are weaved to the fiber of the city, but it is the new mixture of cultures that gives Montreal City its peculiar stamp.

Switch with one click into another world and a keen grasp of the moment is the dream of traveling on the lookout for the unexpected. Each district of the island has its own character, its look and its history, and could write his own documentary.

Romantic Montreal, Montreal hyper-techno: versatility suits him perfectly.

At once intimate and cosmopolitan, she is resolutely open to the world. Despite an accepted diversity, the inhabitants of the city share a common value: the desire to live and let live, and they do very well.

A walk on Rue Saint-Denis is worth a thousand words. From the first rays of spring, outdoor patios are filled with a diverse fauna, happy to finally be able to gorge the sun like lizards fed.

Downtown, the streets buzz of shoppers hurry to flush out the new fashion trends. Before the Ogilvy Cyrille plays the spoon after a frenzied pace, as if all these faithful would be late for the last remaining winter.

When the summer heat of the town Mount Royal Park explodes by is rhythms and colors. This is the rendezvous of the drums. People come from everywhere to play, dance or simply enjoy life.

The blend of flavors, customs, languages, cuisines in Montreal breathes an aura of freshness and audacity that exists nowhere else.

The FrancoFolies de Montreal is one of the best ways to see who we really are.

Come and visit us!

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