The summer festival season has barely begun, Pop Montreal announces this Tuesday some of the headliners who, from September 28 to October 2, will compose its return to normal after two editions constrained by the pandemic.
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Among the fifty or so artists, let’s immediately celebrate the arrival in Montreal of one of his children, Allison Russell. The Montreal singer, now based in Nashville, has multiplied converts since the release in May 2021 of her sublime album. OutsideChildwhich earned him three nominations at the most recent Grammy Awards, in addition to the Juno for Contemporary Roots Album of the Year and statuettes for Album of the Year and Artist of the Year. at the gala of the International Folk Music Awards.
This will be his first visit to Montreal since these multiple triumphs. ” Montreal is my city. I was born there, I grew up there, and that’s where I had all the experiences that shaped me,” she confided to The Press last year.
After two editions which miraculously aligned with the easing of sanitary measures, but which were held without international figures, Dan Seligman talks about a gradual return to a program as rich as what the flagship event of indie music has given us. accustomed.
We also try to be a bit more conservative in our approach and not book as many shows as before. And I think it will make for a better edition, because there will be less risk for festival-goers to miss something.
Dan Seligman, artistic director of Pop Montreal
The organizers of Pop Montreal have indeed often been criticized for the anxiety attacks they provoke in music lovers, forced to choose between two intriguing shows.
Other names include post-rock giants Tortoise, legendary English funk band Cymande, which has been sampled a thousand times over, and Priyanka, 2020 queen of the Canadian edition of RuPaul’s Drag Race.
Dan Seligman also promises to reconnect with the shows of alleys, building roofs and balconies, which have kept the last two editions of the event afloat. “Anyway, it’s more part of Pop Montreal’s identity than the big shows. »