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Singer Roxane Bruneau continues her tour Acrophobia. She will be performing in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu on October 21. A few tickets are still available. “Everything is in the intention that she puts into it and not in the technique – Roxane Bruneau even sometimes makes the famous sign of the heart to the public while singing. And ends the show after performing his hymns In my way and I’m not stressedand greets us with the exhausted air of one who has given everything, with her immense heart and her desire to keep both feet on the ground,” journalist Josée Lapointe told us in November 2021.

There aren’t many tickets left to see Salebarbes on stage before the end of the year, but there are still some for Thursday’s show at the MTelus. The group leads a busy tour carrying its songs from the Cajun repertoire. And that will take them far: Salebarbes already has around twenty concerts on its agenda in the fall of 2023.

Alexandre Vigneault, The Press

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) has just concocted a major exhibition on New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, who died tragically in 1988 at the age of just 27. His angle: exploring the abundant links that exist between music and his visual work.

Jean Siag, The Press

Jeunesses Musicales Canada launches its season with the event Onward to living art! presented at the Salle Joseph-Rouleau of the Maison André-Bourbeau. Two free events (but subject to reservations) should be highlighted, including the globetrotting ball hosted by Barbada and featuring five musicians who will take young audiences on a journey through the musical traditions of the world. Presented on October 22, for ages 6 to 10. Also scheduled for Saturday, but in the evening: concert bringing together Barbada and cellist Stéphane Tétreault.

Stephanie Morin, The Press

After collaborating for the first time with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens by offering his reinterpretation of the Rite of Springin 2018, the choreographer Étienne Béchard this time offers his iconoclastic vision of Carmen, who has become an avatar fleeing the conformism of an authoritarian society. The ballet is presented at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier from October 20 to 23 as part of a quadruple program with Waves(Kiara Flavin), the pas de deux Young man (Uwe Scholz) and The Rite of Spring (Etienne Bechard).

Iris Gagnon-Paradise, The Press

Olivia Palacci has become an increasingly familiar face on stage and on screen. However, the actress signs these days at Quat’sous her fourth staging, with the play A day. As the text is a creation, Olivia Palacci decided to keep it in its entirety, without changing a single word. “My staging is based on the unspoken, the lighting, the sound, the video images”, explained the artist to the journalist Stéphanie Morin on October 18.

The comedian, actor and singer Adib Alkhalidey, who started the tour of his new one-man-show Quebecers Tabarnak last spring, is stopping again in Montreal this Friday at Place des Arts. A mille-feuille type show, with several layers of humor and reflection, which humorously and intelligently addresses the themes of identity, exile, inclusion, difference and addiction (to cookies). To see and see again. In the city, in the suburbs or in the countryside. Until March 2023.

Jean Siag, The Press

“Charlotte Le Bon manages to create and sustain this tension, thanks to a particularly neat and subtle realization, both dark and luminous, made up of splendid plays of shadows on faces and silhouettes. And an anxiety-provoking soundtrack. The end, open and enigmatic, stays in mind for a long time. Like a good ghost story. »

Marc Cassivi, The Press