Tickets for the national tribute ceremony to singer Karl Tremblay will be available from 10 a.m. Thursday morning on the evenko website.
The ceremony will take place on Tuesday, November 28, at 7:30 p.m., at the Bell Center, where the Cowboys Fringants have offered numerous shows in the past. Tickets are free, and each person can purchase a maximum of four.
It will be a secular “national tribute”, and not a national funeral, as Prime Minister François Legault suggested last week, the day after the singer’s death. On the program: the screening of the film America cries on a giant screen, a few songs accompanied by musicians from the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, and a speech by Jean-François Pauzé, songwriter and guitarist of the Cowboys Fringants.
“In agreement with his wife Marie-Annick and all his loved ones, the Quebec nation will pay a national tribute to this artist so beloved by Quebecers and to the immense legacy he leaves in our culture,” declared the Prime Minister of Quebec , François Legault, in a press release released on Wednesday.
The Minister of Culture and Communications, Mathieu Lacombe, indicated Wednesday that the family of Karl Tremblay has expressed the wish for a secular ceremony, but that the event will have the same importance as a traditional national funeral.
“It’s a death that affected so many Quebecers […] I think it’s been a long time since we’ve experienced this and I think that Quebecers want to experience this together, to come together around this. The news is not easy at the moment, Quebecers do not always have it easy and so, being able to experience this together, to put some good things around it, it will do good for everyone », added the minister.
The Quebec flag will fly at half-mast above the Parliament Building on the day of the ceremony in tribute to the deceased, who died of cancer at the age of 47.
A condolence register has also been put online to allow those who wish to offer their condolences to the family of Karl Tremblay.