Nuit Blanche – Feb. 26, 2011
Are you ready for the 8th edition of the annual Nuit Blanche in Montreal? This is how Montrealers have fun in the winter.
According to their website:
On Saturday, February 26, Montreal’s wildest winter night takes over the city, spreading out over three quartiers and one pôle: Old Montréal and the Quays of the Old Port, Centre-ville (Downtown) and Quartier des spectacles, Plateau-Mont-Royal and Mile-End and the Pôle Maisonneuve!
Kick the frost off of the city as you enjoy extraordinary and uncommon discoveries and experiences throughout your journey into the night. Thumb your nose at Ol’ Man Winter by reaching out for an array of activities: visual arts, dance, storytelling, exhibitions, cinema, music, sport, comedy, theatre and free-form fun!
This fun Montreal event is part of the Montreal High Lights Festival and is not to be missed if you want to experience winter fun in our city.
Tony Gouveia, Feb. 20/10
Montreal’s import from Portugal, Tony Gouveia’s show as part of the Montreal Highlights festival takes place on February 20th, when Montrealers can enjoy his brand of music.
When: February 20, 2010, 7 p.m.
Cost: 16.50 (you can buy tickets here)
Where:
Maison du Festival Rio Tinto Alcan
305 Ste. Catherine Street W.
Montréal
Telephone: 514 288-8882
info-salle @equipespectra.ca
Jorge Martinez, Feb. 18/10
More music – Montreal just never stops, does it?
Part of the Montreal Highlights Festival:
A former child prodigy and virtuoso guitarist, Jorge Martinez is a major player in stylistic fusion. Inspired as much by ancestral music as modern sounds, he delivers a free-spirited, sincere flamenco-fusion, equal parts technical prowess and Latin pride. It’s danceable, festive, moving and free-spirited. It was no surprise that he caused a sensation as the opening act for the great Cesaria Evora at the 2008 Festival International de Jazz de Montréal.
When: February 18, 2010, 10 pm
Cost: 14.50 (you can buy tickets here)
Where:
Maison du Festival Rio Tinto Alcan
305 Ste. Catherine Street W.
Montréal
Telephone: 514 288-8882
info-salle @equipespectra.ca
Papagroove, Feb. 19, 2010
According to the Montreal Highlights Festival website:
Driven by a natural propensity to party, powered by a pronounced social conscience, Montreal collective Papagroove captivates crowds with a fusion of funk grooves and rock intensity, soul spirit and jazz verve, all of it rooted deeply in Afrobeat. Onstage, the horns blaze, the bass rumbles and wild percussion unleashes dance madness in the audience. After an utterly overpowering performance at the 30th Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, the group heats up our coldest month with a suave, summery show matching songs from their blazing Afro-funk debut We’re Not Blind with newer pieces.
Where:
Maison du Festival Rio Tinto Alcan – L’Astral
305 Sainte-Catherine West
When:
Friday, February 19, 2010 at 10:00 PM
Cost:
$14.50 (plus taxes and service charges)
Leonard Cohen Artworks, Free, Feb 19 to 28, 2010
February 4, 2010 by MarijkeD
Filed under Entertainment, Museum fun
The Montreal Highlights Festival presents an opportunity for Montrealers and friends to see the artwork of performer Leanard Cohen.
The Galerie Lounge TD is honoured to present is honoured to present the sketches and drawings of the great poet, songwriter and singer Leonard Cohen, for the first time ever in Montreal. Leonard Cohen has filled sketchbooks since the outset of his career, tracing shapes and forms and giving life to a poet’s words.
Until 2007, the great artist had never exhibited his drawings. Self-portraits annotated in his own hand, nudes and female portraits, and everyday objects invite the viewer to share an intimate moment with this extraordinary Montreal creative force whose words, timeless melodies and deep, warm voice have seduced audiences the world over for forty years.
When:
February 19 to 28, 2010
Where:
Montreal Highlights Festival 2010
It’s time for the annual Montreal Highlights Festival – a way to help Montrealers and those who love Montreal get out and enjoy the winter.
When: From February 18 to 28, 2010
Where: various venues in Montreal, depending on the activity. Check out their website for more details or stay tuned to Montreal on the Cheap.
What:
One look at the program will be enough to convince you that this year’s edition is especially zany, crazy and free-spirited, the perfectly magical kickoff for all other “Nuits Blanches” that follow, in cities the world over. This Saturday, February 27, High Lighters can discover the city by night, plunging into 180 activities—most of them free—spread indoors and outdoors over three quartiers and one pole (sector). Feel like dancing, clambering onstage, singing, swimming, laughing? Ready for stories, an artistically re-imagined Montreal underground and a night of endless surprises?
