You are invited to enjoy food and drinks at Planet Québec’s VIP Kick-Off Reception hosted by the Québec Government.......

You are invited to enjoy food and drinks at Planet Québec’s Kick-Off VIP Reception hosted by the Québec Government.......

You are invited to enjoy food and drinks at Planet Québec’s Kick-Off VIP Reception hosted by the Québec Government.......

Presented by: Planet Quebec Opening Party

Ariane Moffatt is an adventurer. The Montreal singer-songwriter’s illustrious career is marked by curiosity ¬– sonic, musical and emotional – and it’s contagious. She has built a devoted following in Quebec over...

Montreal QC CANADA

 

Presented by: Planet Quebec Opening Party

“(…) while the biggest buzz around the festival was for Montreal trio Half Moon Run.” Mark Monahan, Director of the Ottawa Bluesfest, interviewed by the Ottawa Sun "Their minimal but textured rock had real dy...

Montreal QC CANADA

Presented by: Planet Quebec Opening Party

The three of Each Other are Haligonians living in Montreal, Quebec. They've arrived together through a series of broken bands (Long Long Long, York Redoubt, Play Guitar) and at last have a common and resolute goal to le...

Montreal QC CANADA

Presented by: Planet Quebec Opening Party

ABOUT THE BAND: A taste of rock n’ roll Dance Laury Dance was born in 2007 from the combined talents of Lap (drums), Max Lemire (vocals), Blake (guitar), Harry (bass) and Dagger Pat (guitar). Right from their very ...

Quebec City QC CANADA

 

Presented by: Planet Quebec Opening Party

Ain't No Love, a promising new Canadian group, is made up of two unique MCs (1990 & Beanz), one innovative producer (Love Thy Brother), and an eclectic singer (Saidah Conrad). Hailing from Toronto & Montreal, they have c...

Montreal QC CANADA

   

Presented by: Planet Quebec Opening Party

A child of hip-hop and a student of contemporary electronic music, Monolithium’s sound is the axiom where funk, techno and grime coalesce into concise, focused dancefloor pressure. His debut EP, Simon & G-Funk (via Err...

Victoria AB CANADA

 

Presented by: M for Montreal/Bumbershoot

Canailles started off in Parc Lafontaine during summer 2009. At first six musicians from really different backgrounds would meet up there to improvise their own versions of bluegrass, country and blues standards. Their l...

Montreal QC CANADA

Presented by: M for Montreal/Bumbershoot

With a voice that straddles seamlessly the worlds of close fragility and far reaching intensity, there is nary a person on the planet that doesn’t fall immediately entranced when they hear it. The Canadian/Swedish band...

Stockholm SWEDEN

 

Presented by: M for Montreal/Bumbershoot

Caila Thompson-Hannant is Mozart's Sister and as she writes this she is on her computer in Montreal making music.......

Montreal QC CANADA

Presented by: M for Montreal/Bumbershoot

ANDY WHITE & EDWIN WHITE, THEY ARE THE BROTHERS FROM FLORIDA: AMERICA’S FINAL FRONTIER. WHILE NOW SEPARATE LIVING IN MONTREAL & NYC THEY CONTINUE TO CREATE MUSIC ALL THE FUCKING TIME. THEY DON’T WANT ANYTHING. BOOGIE...

Montreal QC CANADA

 

Presented by: M for Montreal/Bumbershoot

“(…) while the biggest buzz around the festival was for Montreal trio Half Moon Run.” Mark Monahan, Director of the Ottawa Bluesfest, interviewed by the Ottawa Sun "Their minimal but textured rock had real dy...

Montreal QC CANADA

Presented by: M for Montreal/Bumbershoot

In the cold and dreary winter of 2009, alone in his bedroom and hidden from the darkness of the world outside Justin Paul Vallesteros had begun working on something that would change his life forever. What began as a cou...

Seattle WA

Presented by: M for Montreal/Bumbershoot

Cadence Weapon continues to firmly establish his legacy as a sonic pioneer while constantly pushing the rap and electronic music envelope. Following his critically-acclaimed, Polaris Music Prize nominated albums Breaking...

Montreal QC CANADA

 

Presented by: Montreal International Jazz Festival

The paths of Amélie Nault and Olivier Beaulieu first crossed in Quebec City, where the pair enjoyed revisiting classics from their idols. The inseparable duo began to lay the groundwork for an as-yet amorphous musical p...

Quebec City QC CANADA

 

Presented by: Montreal International Jazz Festival

Born in Dakar, Senegal, into a travelling family, Karim Ouellet spent parts of his formative years growing up in Canada, Senegal, France, Rwanda and Tunisia before settling in Quebec. A versatile and hands-on musician, O...

Quebec City QC CANADA

 

Presented by: Montreal International Jazz Festival

There is only one Krista Muir. She lives in a world of surrealism, cuckoo clocks and antique lampshades. Her multilingual pop albums have taken her around the world since 2001 and led to collaborations with prolific arti...

Montreal QC CANADA

   

Presented by: Montreal International Jazz Festival

Montreal singer-songwriter Ian Kelly started singing in cover bands at age thirteen. It wasn’t long before he learned to play guitar and started to create his own musical world. “When you don’t have cash for new CD...

Montreal QC CANADA

 

Presented by: Montreal International Jazz Festival

Ariane Moffatt is an adventurer. The Montreal singer-songwriter’s illustrious career is marked by curiosity ¬– sonic, musical and emotional – and it’s contagious. She has built a devoted following in Quebec over...

Montreal QC CANADA

 

Presented by: Montreal International Jazz Festival

ABOUT THE BAND: A taste of rock n’ roll Dance Laury Dance was born in 2007 from the combined talents of Lap (drums), Max Lemire (vocals), Blake (guitar), Harry (bass) and Dagger Pat (guitar). Right from their very ...

Quebec City QC CANADA

 

Presented by: Dare To Care

Following a year of performances across Canada, UK, USA and Europe, with an appearance on David Letterman topping it all off, Nova Scotia rock scrappers Wintersleep met up with producers Tony Doogan (Belle & Sebastian) &...

Halifax NS CANADA

 

Presented by: Dare To Care

Fanny Bloom grew up in the country, where she studied music and met two boys with whom she would go on to form the band "La Patère Rose" in 2008. In no time, the trio won the Grand Prize at the 12th Edition of the Franc...

Montreal QC CANADA

 

Presented by: Dare To Care

Canailles started off in Parc Lafontaine during summer 2009. At first six musicians from really different backgrounds would meet up there to improvise their own versions of bluegrass, country and blues standards. Their l...

Montreal QC CANADA

Presented by: Dare To Care

Sometimes the most startling new music is the stuff that sounds somehow familiar. With FLICKERING FLASHLIGHT, Montreal's ADAM & THE AMETHYSTS have lit up a box of homemade fireworks, firing psychedelic folk and pinwheeli...

Montreal QC CANADA

 

Presented by: Dare To Care

Lead by vocalist and songwriter Xavier Paradis (who has long garnered a cult underground following with his solo minimal synth project ARNAUD LAZLAUD, active in Canada since the late 90's), Automelodi was formed in 2006 ...

Montreal QC CANADA

 

Presented by: Dare To Care

Formed in the summer of '10, Kathryn McCaughey and Mikey Heppner began spontainiously writing and recording songs in their bedroom. The result was an album's worth of catchy tunes mixed with a few heavy riffs and groovy...

Montreal QC CANADA

 

Presented by: Iceland Airwaves/M for Montreal

Elephant Stone is the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist Rishi Dhir, a founding member of Montreal pop/psyche veterans the High Dials, and sitar player for basically every outlaw psyche band out there (Black Angels, the...

Montreal QC CANADA

 

Presented by: Iceland Airwaves/M for Montreal

Molly Rankin is the girl next door. But she’s smoking in the basement, writing gruff pop songs with irresistible hooks. At 22, the youngest member of one of Canada’s most famous musical families, a songwriter with...

Charlottetown PE CANADA

Presented by: Iceland Airwaves/M for Montreal

The three of Each Other are Haligonians living in Montreal, Quebec. They've arrived together through a series of broken bands (Long Long Long, York Redoubt, Play Guitar) and at last have a common and resolute goal to le...

Montreal QC CANADA

Presented by: Iceland Airwaves/M for Montreal

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Montreal QC CANADA

 

Presented by: Iceland Airwaves/M for Montreal

Through countless formative live performances and the crafting of a collection of superior pop songs, ultra-talented Icelandic octet Retro Stefson have mastered the art of moving a crowd to the brink of sheer ecstasy - a...

Reykjavik ICELAND

Presented by: Iceland Airwaves/M for Montreal

Fall. “Let’s make a new record,” they say. “How do we do this? Let’s do it differently—let’s write a whole pile of songs and develop them big time before we go into the studio to record—let’s not do th...

Montreal QC CANADA