Music fans set their annual travel ... shining a spotlight on your new favourite bands at POP Montréal International Music Festival. And there’s more where that came from too, along with a vibrant live music programme all year long—many scheduled at the following venues ...
Music fans set their annual travel schedule to take in epic all-star festivals like the crowd-pleasing Osheaga, the legendary Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, the experimentally-minded MUTEK and Suoni Per Il Popolo, the unstoppable dance beats of Igloofest and îLESONIQ, the global mosaics of Festival International Nuits d’Afrique, Mundial Montréal, the focus on French-language performers at Francos de Montréal, and the eclectic programming shining a spotlight on your new favourite bands at POP Montréal International Music Festival. And there’s more where that came from too, along with a vibrant live music programme all year long—many scheduled at the following venues each with an emphasis on fantastic sound and brilliant performances.Mark Hamilton is the community director for QueerMTL, an internationally-touring musician with his projects Woodpigeon and Frontperson and a graduate studies student of history researching LGBTQ+ activism in the city. He’s lived in Montréal since 2015, during which time he’s most often spotted atop a BIXI bike usally running a few minutes late.From its busy record stores to its packed summer festival season season, Montréal is a city of music lovers with live performance holding a particularly special place in the hearts of its citizens. And given Montréal’s enthusiastic audiences every night of the week, the city has long been a favourite stop on many a can’t miss tour itinerary for the world’s biggest superstars to the most up-and-coming upstart.Montréal’s history as a musical mecca reaches back to the jazz age, with audiences flocking from across the border and from around the world to experience the city’s infamous nightlife scene’s jazz and blues clubs. American Prohibition kept the audiences coming throughout the 1920s and 1930s, and Montréal remains a hotspot incubator for jazz, blues, hip-hop and contemporary composition.
