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Jean-Michel Blais in Gatineau
Pianist Jean-Michel Blais, who we have mostly heard solo, recently released an orchestral album. On Aubades, he is accompanied by 12 musicians. On stage, during his Quebec tour which begins this week, he will be surrounded by a “small orchestra” of three musicians – Nadia Monczak (violin), Lorraine Gauthier (cello) and Benjamin Deschamps (clarinet, bass clarinet, flute traverse and soprano saxophone) – in a scenography that promises to be magnificent. He will notably be at the Odyssée hall in Gatineau, on 1er March.
The Hay Babies in Victoriaville
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The three members of Hay Babies: Katerine Roy, Julie Aube and Viviane Roy
Letter box, the third album by the trio Hay Babies, is a dive into dreamy folk and mellow rock. We really feel the influence sixties in this kind of lightness, as in the roundness of the sounds. This assumed and successful retro trip will be carried on the stages of Quebec, among others at the cultural space Le Carré 150, in Victoriaville, on March 4.
DaveandJenn in Joliette
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A Forest Song Designed by daveandjenn
The DaveandJenn duo, originally from Calgary, present their installation at the Musée d’art de Joliette The song of the forest. In particular, it brings together paintings, sculptures and a video diptych that explores the exploitation of one part of the planet by another. Everything is very colorful. The exhibition is presented until April 24.
Lorraine Desmarais and the OSS in Sherbrooke
PHOTO LAURENCE LABAT, PROVIDED BY AGENCE LEFEBVRE
Lorraine Desmarais
Solo, trio, big band, symphony orchestra, pianist Lorraine Desmarais has played in all sorts of formats and has long established herself as a staple of Canadian jazz. She will perform with the Orchester symphonique de Sherbrooke, on March 12, at Maurice O’Bready Hall, during a concert entitled American Symphonies where jazz tunes and classical works from this continent will mix, including pieces by Gershwin.
Nikamu Mamuitun in Saguenay
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The show Nikamu Mamuitun brings together native and non-native artists.
Resulting from an artist residency at the Festival en chanson de Petite-Vallée, the show Nikamu Mamuitun brings together Aboriginal artists – Ivan Boivin-Flamand, Matui, Scott Pien-Picard and Karen Pinette Fontaine – and non-Aboriginal artists. Florent Vollant was one of the mentors who helped give birth to this show, which will notably pass through the Théâtre Palace in Saguenay on March 25, before touring throughout the province.
Anne-Élisabeth Bossé in Quebec
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Actress and humorist Anne-Élisabeth Bossé
The actress Anne-Élisabeth Bossé, noticed as much in the theater as on television and in the cinema, has made the solo leap into humor. She presents her first one woman show entitled Jealous everywhere in Quebec. This show, described as an “unclassifiable object”, refined in recent months despite the pandemic, will notably be on view at the Octave-Crémazie hall of the Grand Théâtre de Québec on April 2.
Freedoms sacrificed in Gatineau
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Italian-Canadian interneeby Vincenzo Poggi, 1940
The War Measures Act no longer exists, it has been replaced by Emergency Measures Act, which the federal government wishes to use for the first time in order to deal with the occupation of downtown Ottawa, in particular. The context could not be better chosen to visit the exhibition Freedoms sacrificedwhich explores the consequences of using the defunct War Measures Act during the two world wars and the October crisis. Until September 5 at the Canadian Museum of History.