Name a beloved artist or a newcomer: you’re sure to find them playing this spring, whether at the Bell Center (from Justin Bieber to the Cowboys Fringants to Sting) or the Center culturel de la Pointe-Valaine ( Jordan Officer, Emile Bilodeau, Mara Tremblay…). General mobilization: hurry up and celebrate the return of live performance.
Damien Robitaille
Back on stage? His daily tour de force as a one-man band (500 songs performed, at last count) propelled him to the forefront of the digital planet. It will be almost strange to find him outside his cubicle, on tour in Quebec from March 17, at Versant du Village, in Bromont.
Louis Jean Cormier
The sky is on the floor, by far the most personal, even cathartic, album of the journey of the man from Sept-Îles — the journey through mourning — calls for sharing. And shares there will be. If you resist the urge to hit the road to Théâtre Belcourt in Baie-du-Febvre on March 17, shows at L’Anglicane in Lévis and Granada in Sherbrooke will soon follow.
Mitsky
Released five weeks ago Laurel Hell, the singer-songwriter’s sixth album, reached the top of sales on Billboard, a feat for this American who champions a pop song with intimate and incisive lyrics. At the theatre
St-Denis, in Montreal, on March 19.
Hay Babies
Julie Aubé, Vivianne Roy and Katrine Noël have the multicolored happening all ready for the show of their psycho-pop album Letter box, including matching clothes, created by Julie. Dazzle of all the senses in perspective, especially at the Zaricot in Saint-Hyacinthe, on March 19.
Steve Hackett
The guitarist of the great years of Genesis offers the impossible: recreate the mythical experience of the show Seconds Out from 1977, with the epic The Cinema Show bonus. If anyone can, it’s him: go to Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier at Place des Arts on March 31.
Sons of Kemet
The London Afro-jazz ensemble led by saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings comes to present the material of the hard-hitting album Black to the Future (May 2021) in what promises to be a party as much as an outlet. At the Corona Theater in Montreal on 1er April.
Thierry Larose
Released at the height of the pandemic in March 2021, the excellent album Cantalouof the young singer-songwriter will not have quite existed on stage yet. This concert will undoubtedly have the appearance of liberation, for the musician as well as for his fans. At Club Soda, in Montreal, on April 14.
Salome Leclerc
The voice more than ever at the front, carrying refrains more than ever accessible, the singer and musician knows like us that the album A thousand works my heart is made to exult in front of an audience, and that’s what the spring tour will finally allow. It’s at the Maison des arts de Laval that it starts, on April 15th.
Big Thief
At the top of their game, the alternative folk-country-rock group launched last month Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You, already a peak of the discographic year. This concert in Montreal could also be one of the highlights of the musical year. At the Olympia Theater on April 18.
Charlotte Cardin
This time will be the right one: forced last January to postpone her first series of concerts, Cardin will first take possession of the Imperial in Quebec City before settling in the former Metropolis of Montreal for four performances. At the Impérial de Québec from March 16 to 19, at the MTelus from April 29 to May 2.