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Festival Review: Festival de la musique emergente en Abitibi-Temiscamingue [August 29-September 1, Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec]

Posted on September 5, 2013 by Thierry Cote in Concerts | Leave a comment

It isn’t every day that you find yourself watching a surprise set of French-language country music on the front steps of an automobile repair shop in a small Québec mining town well north of North Bay, but then again Rouyn-Noranda’s Festival de musique émergente en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (FME) isn’t much like most music festivals. FME founders Sandy Boutin and Jenny Thibault have firmly rejected the traditional rock festival model and pride themselves in trying to be “very personal” in all aspects … →

Festival Preview: Festival de la musique emergente en Abitibi-Temiscamingue [August 29-September 1, Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec]

Posted on August 28, 2013 by Thierry Cote in Concerts | Leave a comment

While many Torontonians will be spending the (unofficial) end of the summer that is the Labour Day weekend drinking on patios, barbecuing and, let’s face it, mostly complaining about the Canadian International Air Show, 25,000 fans of new and emerging musics from the four corners of the province of Québec and beyond will be gathering beginning tomorrow in Rouyn-Noranda, a small town of 41,000 roughly 700 kilometres north of Toronto, for the Festival de la musique émergente en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (FME), … →