In this 11th edition, the Festival hosted a record number of shows, with over 100 performances-while meeting its ticket budget goal-and offering all the excitement of a full-blown music and arts festival. A number of our homegrown artists shared that thought (Elisapie Isaac, Les Trois Accords, Andrea Lindsay, Martine St-Clair, Yann Perreau…), delivering special projects or premieres at the Festival. In all this excitement, let us mention shows by our honorary co-presidents-the magical Paradis Perdu by Dominic Champagne and Mísia’s magnificent fado, in the opening concert-the standing ovation earned by the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Yannick Nézet-Ségin, the tandem of Nagano-Repin and the OSM, the craziness of Psy with 7 doigts de la main, and the torrid new Caliente ! series that heated up our February! With the Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club the Brazilian Night with Paulo Ramos, Bïa, Monica Freire, Nico Béki and Peninha, Agnès Jaoui, Calexico, Jorge Martinez, and Portugal’s Maria de Medeiros and Ana Moura (in the closing concert), the series brought us sunshine on a daily basis, a genuine delight in February. No wonder the series has been unanimously voted into next year’s program!

A very special mention goes out to the Leonard Cohen Artworks Exhibition, welcoming over 5,000 visitors to the Galerie Lounge TD in the Maison du Festival Rio Tinto Alcan!

Consult the complete online program of the 11^th edition.