Good news for festival-goers! The Festival d’été de Québec (FEQ) offers a raincheck to the Cowboys Fringants and their fans on July 17. After a heartbreaking cancellation, the FEQ administration is offering a final evening featuring artists who have been tossed about by the storm.
It will therefore be a take 2 for Sara Dufour, Robert Charlebois and the Cowboys Fringants. Monday, July 17, the festivities will resume on the plains starting at 7 p.m. with the program modeled on the shortened Thursday evening.
The Cowboys Fringants’ performance was canceled due to thunderstorms that hit all of Quebec Thursday night. The rain got the better of the Quebec formation, which tried to offer at least one song to the thousands of festival-goers who had gathered for the occasion despite the storm warnings.
“We knew that the performance of the Cowboys Fringants was expected, both for festival-goers and for the group”, says Nicolas Racine, CEO of BLEUFEU. “The moment the weather forced us to cancel the show for security reasons, our teams went into solution mode with the group’s entourage. It’s really the story of an entire city that wanted the show to take place: in the moments that followed, and until early morning, our discussions with all of our partners and our suppliers showed us how mobilized everyone was”.
The administration of the festival had announced earlier Thursday that the performance of the iconic group would be moved up to 7:30 p.m. due to weather conditions. A shortened version of Robert Charlebois’ show took place when Sara Dufour’s performance was cancelled. The disappointment was palpable, as much for the group as for those who had moved for the event.