2017
6 pm–midnight, Esplanade des Invalides – Paris For the sixth consecutive year, takes over the Esplanade des Invalides with Nuit Boréale, one of the most popular events at the Fête de la Musique in Paris. For this new edition, Nuit Boréale...
2017
Then came Médée. When Marc-Antoine Charpentier could finally compose a tragic opera, and have it performed in Paris, in 1693, it was both a high point and a testament. After spending so many years spent prevented from playing anything else...
2017
The Great Novel has been riding on the arid plains for many moons. Bourbon on their breath, they follow a sonic trail that splits the spaghetti western and the white noise of the city they call home. With groaning strings...
2017
The Quebec musicians Misc (formerly known as the Trio Jérôme Beaulieu and winners of the Révélation Jazz Radio Canada prize in 2013–14) are part of the jazz tradition in terms of their vocabulary and the place occupied by improvisation in...
2017
Guillaume Arsenault has been following the pathways and highways of song for more than fifteen years at the wheel of his singer-songwriter pick-up truck. Honest, patient and resourceful, he hunts sounds and words with a shaman’s aplomb. Rooted in folk,...
2017
Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal invite renowned choreographers to work with them and participate in many initiatives in favour of the development of dance. They will be debuting in Paris Death and the Maiden by the chorographer Stephan Thoss....
2017
The award-winning guitarist Steve Cowan will be playing a solo concert of his first album, Pour Guitare. The album features an eclectic blend of tracks by Canadian composers and several original pieces and first recordings. The performance will highlight sometimes...
2017
The Canadian pianist Jean-Philippe Sylvestre, who won first prize at the Montreal Symphony Orchestra Competition and prizes at several national and international competitions, will be playing a programme of virtuoso Russian music, intermingled with quiet contrasting works, allowing the artist...
2016
As part of the Festival Aurores Montréal, the duo Saratoga, comprising musician and songwriter Marc-Olivier Gasse and singer-songwriter Chantal Archambault, will play a concert of folk music that is soft, intimate and genuine. Over the rhythms of a raw and...
2016
The only festival Parisian dedicating to emerging Canadian music scenes, the Festival Aurores Montréal is back for a fourth edition in Paris in order to introduced the Canadian musical talents of tomorrow to the French. This year’s edition will be...
2016
An artist with a cosmopolitan career, Alain Bédard plays contemporary jazz inspired by his many musical experiments combining world beat and classical music. His fifth album, Circum Continuum, is punctuated with pieces whose vibrant and complex melodies, rhythms and harmonics...
2016
Jeff Moran began playing with words and music in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, developing his own style halfway between American folk and chanson française. A rebellious poet, singer and composer, Moran got himself notice in France and the rest...
2016
Thomas Hellman was born in Montreal to an American father and a French mother. For one evening, the brilliant musician and folk singer will recount American history, from the conquest of the West to the Great Depression, through songs from...
2016
For the fifth year in a row, Canada takes over the Esplanade des Invalides with Nuit Boréale, one of the most popular evenings of concerts during the Fête de la Musique in Paris. For this new edition, five up-and-coming artists...
2016
The Canadian company Disques Benedictus proposes the project Fables2016 focused on music rarely performed for baritone and piano or organ. A work by the Bulgarian-Canadian composer will be Alexandra Fol will be centre-stage. Fable2016 sets to music four fables for...
2016
The pianist Jean-Philippe Sylvestre lets us rediscover some of the key compositions of classical music. The conductor Yannick Nézet Séguin, director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, calls him a poet of the piano. A native of Ste-Julie, near Montreal, Jean-Philippe...
2016
The franco-ontarian singer-songwriter Mehdi Hamdad, known as Mehdi Cayenne, invites you to set the world to right His latest album, Aube, which will be released on June 17 in France, is a collection of love songs sung with a subtle...
2016
The Benoît Paradis Trio invites you to an evening focussing on their latest album T’as-tu toute ? (2015), which features experimentation, whimsy and jazzy pop. Meet a down-to-earth, joyously melancholic chanson-jazz group featuring a slightly crazy singer Benoît Paradis (playing percussion-trombone-trumpet-guitar), accompanied by Chantale...
2015
Émile Proulx-Cloutier is known to the general public for his television and film roles. But in recent years, Émile has revealed himself as a gifted singer-songwriter who is extremely touching. The Canadian public and the media are won over, even...
2015
After two spring editions in 2013 and 2014, the Aurores Montréal festival is back in winter for 2015. Giving Paris audiences the chance to discover the Canadian talents of tomorrow, the third edition of the festival will be held in...
2015
Having received special mention of the jury for the TD Grand Jazz Award of the 34th Festival international de Jazz de Montréal and Prix Coup de Coeur du Public 2013 at the Festi Jazz International de Rimouski, the Emie R...
2015
Coco Méliès is the symbiosis of two worlds, those of David Méliès and Francesca Como. Their intimate, raw yet delicate music is a blend of folk and electro, in which their voices comprise the heart of the project. Over the...
2015
Saint-Germain-en-Laye This festival, founded 28 years ago, aims to promote French-language music in all its forms, shine a spotlight on veteran musicians and encourage the emergence of new talents. This year’s edition features several Canadian artists, including Bon Débarras, Josiane...
2015
The group Avec Pas D’Casque was formed after an encounter between a suitcase drum, a cheap guitar and an unexpected kick up the backside that they are still grateful for years later. Since its inception, the group has explored intimacy...
2015
Esplanade des Invalides, right in front of the Canadian Cultural Centre ! For the fourth year in a row, Canada occupies the Esplanade des Invalides with Nuit Boréale, which has become one of the most popular concerts of the Fête...
2015
This leading light of the Canadian jazz scene is one of the most acclaimed musicians at the Montreal Jazz Festival, where he has performed thirty times. Having celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of his career in 2014, the piano prodigy has...
2015
Concert cancelled. Winner of the 2012 Genie Award for “Best Original Song” for Somewhere from the Starbuck movie soundtrack, Caracol‘s songs unfold an intimate universe where deliciously cracked sounds mix with refined vocal harmonies, resonator guitars, ukuleles, old amplifiers and...
2014
L’alhambra – Paris Put to sleep to the sound of family stories, this son of an accountant who “inadvertently became a pleasant storyteller” brings the legends of the town of Saint-Elie-de-Caxton in Quebec to life in this new performance. Hailed...
2014
Contemporary jazz with varied influences that focuses on the ensemble instead of on individual virtuosity; this is played by the Trio Jérôme Beaulieu, made up of Jérôme Beaulieu on piano, Philippe Leduc on double bass and William Côté on drums....
2014
Fred Woods is a Quebec musician whose 2013 debut album Documenta is deeply rooted in the songwriting tradition, influenced by the atmospheric rock of Patrick Watson and Timber Timbre. Creating his own universe and attempting to go beyond the limits...
2014
Discovered by the public because of his impressive guitar playing as part of the Susie Arioli Band, this swing virtuoso made a name for himself over the last decade as one of the most talented blues players in Canada. A...
2014
Saint-Germain-en-Laye This festival, founded twenty-seven years ago, aims to promote Francophone music in all its forms, put the spotlight on veteran artists and encourage the emergence of new talents. On the bill for this new edition are several artists from...