Montreal International FestiBlues offers five days of outdoor blues music

Blues Festivals

From best Blues Festivals, the Montreal International FestiBlues is a music festival in Montreal offering five days of concerts a year (in August) in the registers of blues, folk and rock Established in 1997.

The entire program takes place in the Ahuntsic-Cartierville. Most concerts take place in Ahuntsic Park (outdoors) and the Maison de la culture Ahuntsic-Cartierville.

This internationally renowned event from blues-festivals, scroll saw each nearly fifty years of professional musical groups from the national and international scene.

FestiBlues of the artistic process is part of a sustainable development approach combining culture, tourism and social involvement.

Montreal City – Ahuntsic Park will be of again this year his clothes blues from August 9 to celebrate the 15th annual Montreal International FestiBlues, which offers the opportunity for some surprises and retrospectives.

Presented by Loto-Québec in collaboration with Simplex Equipment Rental, one of the best blues-festivals, the FestiBlues will offer an outdoor program and festival hall in nearly 40 shows, interspersed with shots of new discoveries and of the heart that marked 15 years of festival activities, and, rain or shine.

Large strokes heart headlining for 2012

It will be a whirlwind start as a worldwide blues festivals, Thursday, August 9 with the return of 24th Street Wailers, the group winner of Succession in 2011 with Blues, late evening, return to Plume, one of the many hot heart of FestiBlues, which will assault the Loto-Quebec.

Friday will continue the momentum going with a performance by the American Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne and the return of Eric Lapointe promises to be intense!

On Saturday, for its biggest night, the FestiBlues host Thorbjorn Risager, straight out of Denmark fantastic blues festivals with his rhythm & blues and poignant for the first time in 15 years, Claude Dubois, come in to dazzle with a concept blues specially designed for the Festival!

The closing night will be busy with Guy Bélanger which reserves to the festival a very special show and created especially for the FestiBlues in which VIPs like Bob Walsh, France d’Amour and Kim Richardson will follow one another. Just before, The Essentials will make their comeback on stage with Bob Harrison and Jim Zeller, great festival regulars.

Throughout the blues-festivals, this event will present a photo exhibition depicting the finest moments and the hot heart of FestiBlues from its beginnings to the park today to Raimbault, will be made available to festival goers at the site of the event.

Poetry blues

For its 15th anniversary, the FestiBlues adds an arrow to his bow with a new component, blues poetry. The rhythm of the words will go in August!

The festival will feature this year Claude Beausoleil, poet of the City, which will also artistic director for three years of this project.

He will recite some of the poems from his collection in honor of Black Billie Billie Holiday on Thursday, Friday and Saturday on the Loto-Québec, as well as during intermissions at performances of the House of Culture. Not to be missed!

10 years with Blues sur Seine!

This 15th edition also marks ten years of partnership with another great blues-festivals the Blues sur Seine, the equivalent of the festival in our French cousins and wellknown from international blues festivals.

Collaboration that seeks to promote the French language in the blues and allowing for several years to local artists of the blues is to occur in France and vice versa.

This year this collaboration allows us to welcome Shake Your Hips, Xavier Olivier Pillac and Gotti, winner of Springboard FestiBlues 2011.

A social event environmentally responsible

In addition to its application to showcase and develop blues-festivals forblues culture in Montreal, the socially FestiBlues is involved in his community, the Ahuntsic-Cartierville.

Each year, dozens of young people have the opportunity to invest in the festival, to experiment and for some, to develop real passion for business-related event production.

Thus the FestiBlues raises funds for Youth Foundation Ahuntsic-Cartierville he created it all began in 1998 and helps promote the socio-professional integration of youth in her neighborhood who is a first job.

In addition to its social action, FestiBlues doing its part towards ecological setting up a plan to reduce its environmental footprint, including using advocacy, a squad of recycling, composting stations , and a unique platform for carpooling.

The 15th annual Montreal International FestiBlues part of the greatest blues festivals around the world be held from August 9 to 12, 2012 at Ahuntsic Park.

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