More than 30 artists will take to the stage at the Place des Festivals on June 23 for the big National Day show, which will return to Montreal after a two-year absence due to the pandemic.
Veterans like Patrice Michaud and Michel Pagliaro, but also younger artists like Alicia Moffet, Jay Scott, Sarahmée, Les Louanges and FouKi, will participate in the show, which will then be broadcast on ICI Radio-Canada Télé, TVA and on music radio stations from Cogeco the following day at 8 p.m., the evening of Québec’s national holiday.
The National Day Committee in Montreal has also confirmed the presence of Kathia Rock, Ariane Roy and Roxane Bruneau, while the animation is entrusted to Pierre-Yves Lord.
The show will be titled “J’aime ma langue”, and the organizers promise that the artists “will use the French language to unite, move and thrill all of Quebec”.
188th edition
The last two editions of the big National Day show were presented without an audience due to the risks associated with the spread of COVID-19. They were presented at the Cogeco Amphitheater in Trois-Rivières, in 2020, and near the Manoir Richelieu in Charlevoix, in 2021.
Festivities will be organized from June 23 to 25 at the Quartier des spectacles to celebrate the 188and National Day edition in Montreal.
The Paradé stationnaire de la fête nationale, another flagship event of the program, will also use the theme of the French language as a common thread. De Maisonneuve Boulevard, between Sanguinet and Saint-Dominique streets, will therefore be transformed into a route mixing literature, songs, poems, tales and legends, nursery rhymes and theatre.