The artistic event that has become a must has been able to renew itself once again and proves that creativity rhymes with festivity. For this 14e edition, the team draws up an agenda of 4 days of the most diversified meetings. The headliners are Amyl and The Sniffersan internationally recognized Australian punk-rock group, will be added to this rock evening the Vulgar Things. An expected return is that of Daniel Belanger for a third time at the Festif!, he will be accompanied, among others, by Dumas. You will find essentials at Place Desjardins such as The Three Accords, Blue Jeans Blue. Several renowned artists will also perform on the other stages, notably Valaire, until the early morning. The event always offers a range of artists that can appeal to all generations, including Ingrid St-Pierre, Patrice Michaud et Patrick Norman. New features and favorites are offered to the public to discover the city such as the Bus Festif, the urbania series, rue Saint-Jean-Baptiste transformed into rue Festive, which will become pedestrian on Saturday July 22, making way for dozens of performances by artists and circus troupes. Everyone will find their account.
“Series Urbania among other things, it’s a series of shows in shops. We also have listening sessions with the leisure company. For example Dumas will be with people and they will listen to his album and Dumas will chat, comment a little on the album, we will talk a little about his composition process. There is the Festive bus! which comes back, it’s a city bus which is transformed into a performance hall, ”explains the general manager, Clément Turgeon.
The Festive! with the primary mission of promoting local talent, offers 9 emerging artists. Tickets are available for residents starting tomorrow and for online sale starting April 14.
“We have 9 this year. It’s important to make room for the scene here, sometimes it can serve as a springboard for them. We are talking about artists from here, it is as much about artists from Quebec. It remains that 80% of the programming is made up of Quebec artists, that remains the priority, despite the fact that we have artists from all over the place…”, concludes Clément Turgeon.