Exceptional measure Thursday at the Summer Festival: to allow the Cowboys Fringants to avoid a storm expected in the middle of the evening, their show started at 7:30 p.m.
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Originally, the most popular group in Quebec was to go on stage at 9:30 p.m., like all the other headliners on the Plains of Abraham.
“Considering that a major system is expected around 9:30 p.m. and all the beautiful people in town, we worked with the teams to rearrange the schedule,” said FEQ communications director Samantha McKinley around 5 p.m.
As a result, Robert Charlebois began his singing tour at 6:30 p.m., for a limited time of 45 minutes.
Unfortunately, Sara Dufour’s performance has been cancelled. “It will be returned to him a hundredfold,” promised Ms. McKInley.
The wind was blowing hard when Charlebois, in white from head to toe, arrived on the scene, but it would have taken more than that to destabilize him. ” Good evening my friends. Life doesn’t always turn out the way you think. It’s coming towards us, so I was asked to start earlier, “he said before starting his performance with a song that we didn’t want to be premonitory, The lack of self-confidence.
“We are going to miss our shot. The shit will hit the fan “, sang Robert Charlebois, while his curly hair was swept by the wind.
“We won’t miss our shot”, quickly corrected the Quebec icon, joker and in great shape, before starting to unpack his successes.
Obviously, The wings of an angel arrived quickly. “If you don’t know her, you were born in the suburbs of… Moscow. »
No problem, all the festival-goers who had arrived on the site shouted all the “Quebec” required by the song with the old lion.
Jostled by time, pieces planned for the program were put aside, but we still heard Between 2 seals And Californiaa pretext for a pleasant surprise appearance by Louise Forestier.