This text is part of the special booklet Culture as a gift
A successful holiday season is one that is lived through music and rhythm. While the winter program in performance halls is abundant this year, here are some recommendations for upcoming concerts and albums that are sure to please and bring warmth and comfort to a daily life already huddled in its white coat.
December together and in song
If there is one musical genre par excellence associated with Christmas, it is jazz! The Glenn Miller Orchestra will take over Place des Arts on December 23 for a unique concert, In the Christmas Mood. Of Santa Claus Is Coming to Town, at let it snow, Passing by Jingle Bells, Home for the Holidays and Frosty the Snowmanthe internationally renowned group made up of some twenty musicians will rock the Maison symphonique as much with its nostalgic interpretation of holiday classics as with the joyful Chattanooga-Choo Choo, Moonlight Serenade, Strings of Pearl, Pennsylvania 6-5000 and, of course, the very timeless In the Mood.
On December 3, Rufus and Martha Wainwright give an appointment to the public at the Saint-Jean-Baptiste church in Montreal for their show stars and you. Brother and sister Wainwright, who have both recently released new music, will be accompanied on stage by several artists, including Hubert Lenoir, Isabelle Boulay and Klô Pelgag, to bring the magic of the holiday season to life in a warm and generous atmosphere. It should be noted in this regard that the benefits of this special evening will be donated to the Kate McGarrigle fund which supports cancer patients.
As for Christmas in the Park, the festival returns from December 3 to 31 in three Montreal parks — Place Émilie-Gamelin, Parc des Compagnons-de-Saint-Laurent and Parc Lahaie. For more than four weeks, many artists will follow one another to illuminate the last month of 2022 with a single watchword: conviviality. Spectators will have the opportunity to applaud big names from the local scene such as Salomé Leclerc, Laurence Nerbonne, Bon Débarras and Bran Van 3000, but also up-and-coming musicians including Super Plage, Sophia Bel, Jesse Mac Cormack, Calamine , Naya Ali and Marilyne Leonard. And the youngest will not be left out since Saturday afternoons will be reserved for family and intergenerational programming. Ari Cui Cui, Kattam and his tam-tams, Atchoum, Les Fées de Noël, the maker Ariane DesLions will perform under the amazed eyes of toddlers, their parents… and Santa Claus!
Grand Christmas
DecemberQuébec Issime’s large holiday season fresco, will thrill, for the 20e times, Quebec and Montreal — from 1er to December 4 at the Videotron Centre, then from December 8 to 29 at the Maisonneuve Theater at Place des Arts. Since 2003, the musical-like show has transported families to a fantastic universe where the characters of the village that we find under our Christmas tree come to life during extraordinary adventures led by Onésime Lemaire, mayor of this incredible municipality. On stage, around twenty artists in dazzling costumes stroll through impressive tableaux and around sixty enchanting melodies. And this edition already promises to be memorable, because the tenor Marc Hervieux will don the fabulous finery of Onesime Lemaire during the performances in Quebec.
The lyrical singer will also travel the roads of Quebec to present his album Nostalgia Christmas. Marc Hervieux notably takes up timeless and unforgettable holiday tunes that echo his childhood memories, as well as original creations. He has, among other things, selected the essentials that are It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas, Baby It’s Cold Outside and Merry Christmas. He also surrounded himself with Annie Villeneuve and the pop music group a cappella QW4RTZ for songs The Prayer/The preghiera/Prayer and white christmas. Between December 11 and 20, Marc Hervieux will stop in Cowansville, Saint-Gervais, Magog and Brossard in a confidential, but festive, piano/voice formula.
Almost like an Advent calendar, the choir of There are people at massthe Télé-Québec program hosted by Christian Bégin, will also be on the road and on the road throughout the month of December to bring his first album to life, Just after November. Already available in physical and digital format, the disc is composed of a dozen original and benevolent Christmas songs written by the members of the choir and two musicians under the leadership of their musical director, Alex McMahon. The kick-off for this holiday mini-tour will be given on the 1er December, in Longueuil, and will notably pass through Gatineau, Joliette, Montreal, Saguenay and Quebec, to end on December 23 in Victoriaville. Regarding the vigil of There are people at Christmas massit will be broadcast on December 24 on the public channel.
It’s party time at the Cabaret du Casino
The Cabaret du Casino de Montréal is definitely a must for the end of the year! After bringing together some 75,000 spectators and some thirty Quebec artists so far, the 2022 edition of Christmas a tradition in song is back for the fifth time. On December 6, Johanne Blouin, Joe Bocan, Luce Dufault, Martine St-Clair, Shirley Théroux, the Madelinots de Suroît (Henri-Paul Bénard and Félix Leblanc), Vladimir Kornéev and Vincent Niclo will invite the public to sing along, with them, great classics. Jacques Roy is in charge of the musical direction of the show, while Joël Legendre is in charge of the staging.
On November 30, then the 1erDecember 14 and 15, the event Youth of yesterday and today celebrate Christmas marks the return to the stage of Joël Denis and Christine Chartrand. The two accomplices will welcome alongside them Suzie Villeneuve, Michaël Girard and David Corriveau for a performance that will evoke Christmases from different eras, past and present. This joyful band will perform classic and traditional songs in a moving and euphoric atmosphere.
A little later in 2023, on February 15, 16, 17 and 18, La Compagnie créole will offer its show The dancing machine, still at the Cabaret du Casino de Montréal, and just in time for Mardi Gras. The group from the French West Indies and Guyana will hum their greatest hits to their loyal audience, which brings together several generations of fans. With songs like It makes the birds laugh, The masked ball, It’s good for morale, Long live customs officer Rousseau and Ba moi en ti bo, there is no doubt that good humor and cheerfulness will be in order!
A string of French-speaking artists
The French singer-songwriter Pomme, who divides her time between the two sides of the Atlantic, will be at the MTelus on December 21, the day of the winter solstice, for a highly anticipated concert. More than a year after playing to sold-out crowds at La Tulipe and a few months after the release of his excellent last album, ConsolationPomme will meet its audience for a performance that we guess is soft and intimate despite the stature of the Montreal performance hall.
Benoit Pinette, who we know with his musical project Tire le Coyote, also presents his brand new album, In the first round of evidence, released earlier this year. Always very poetic and powerful, his music and his words have resonated for a dozen years already on the Quebec song. On the occasion of his tour in the province which will last until April, he will stop in particular at the Louis-Fréchette hall of the Grand Théâtre de Québec on January 7, 2023, then in Montreal at the Maisonneuve theater on January 19, for concerts filled with emotions.
Because the public is asking for more, Les Cowboys Fringants have added additional dates to their mega tour that began several months ago following the release of their musical film America is crying. Few of the concerts still have places available between now and next spring: only the shows scheduled for January 6 at the Bell Center in Montreal, January 14 at the Videotron Center in Quebec City and those in Saint-Hyacinthe and Sept-Îles later. in the year do not display, in fact, not yet complete.
Many other musicians will also hit the roads of Quebec this winter to share convivial moments with their audience. Acadian Lisa LeBlanc will spend the end of November and the beginning of December in the regions (Sainte-Thérèse, Matane, Rimouski, Rivière-du-Loup, Lévis) with her acclaimed chic discowhile the group Les Louanges will start the year 2023 in style with several concerts, including in Laval and Montreal between January and February, before flying off to Europe.
Rain of tributes
Robert en CharleboisScope is a huge rock concert-event by Robert Charlebois that is experienced both in music and in images! The legendary singer-songwriter has thus added dates to this show, which has already been awarded three Félix awards at the ADISQ gala in 2020. need to see winter again / And its northern lights “, he sang in 1976. It could not have been better, since Robert Charlebois will be, the 1erDecember 2 and 3, at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier at Place des Arts in Montreal to sing his greatest hits in front of his audience.
After more than 400 performances in some fifty countries, including at the Olympia in Paris and at Carnegie Hall in New York, and nearly a million people gathered, Piaf! The show is in Montreal. On January 12 at Place des Arts, the tribute show will immerse spectators in the heart of the history and career of French singer Edith Piaf thanks to an extraordinary scenography, the projection of photographs never before published and, of course , the interpretation of his greatest songs, such as Ode to love and The crowd.
Mid-December, in Saint-Jérôme and Mont-Laurier, then on February 3 and 4 at the Cabaret du Casino de Montréal, there will also be Mélissa Bédard who honors her debut in the show My mother was always singing. The one that was discovered about ten years ago in star academy, where she also went to the semi-finals, offers a show in which she revisits, almost karaoke style, the greatest hits of French-speaking song – but not only – which have accompanied her since her early childhood. , both covers, for example I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston, only compositions from her own repertoire.
Long live the party!
There is no doubt that Stromae will be able to make the tens of thousands of people who are expected to dance for its series of concerts at the Bell Center and one at the Videotron Center. Those who wish to discover the Belgian artist’s latest album, Multitudein live and who do not yet have their ticket should hurry, because places are only available for December 11 in Quebec and for December 14 in Montreal.
Finally, on December 10, the Phi Center will host the Kohlenstoff collective, which will present Cymatics, a musical, contemporary, electroacoustic and visual experience created using digital technologies. A little earlier, on November 26, the talented Anna Arrobas will celebrate melancholy and her album Made to Touch for the first edition of the Festival Triste, while the fiery trio 2120 will twirl the stage of the Verre Bouteille on November 28 and the magnetic Ada Lea will be at the Sala Rossa on November 1er December (but also November 30 in Quebec).
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