Host Pierre-Yves Lord will pilot the National Day show in Montreal on Thursday evening, which will return to an audience after two years of a pandemic. This show will feature more than 30 artists including Patrice Michaud, Sarahmée, Roxane Bruneau, Michel Pagliaro and Les Louanges.
Entitled I love my languagethe show will begin at 9 p.m. at Place des festivals, downtown. It’s a show that brings together everything I love […]i.e. Quebec, parties, musicsays Pierre-Yves Lord, who is delighted to see the Quebec of today in all its forms and all its colors.
The host, who experienced his first Saint-Jean-Baptiste show in 1990, at a time when the political climate was very different from today, spoke in an interview about the issues of diversity and inclusion that are at the heart of the debates today.
Of course we still have challenges in inclusion and in the way we welcome people who come from elsewhere so that everyone feels in their place. But Quebec is changing, and I find that beautiful.
Pierre-Yves Lord will also be master of ceremonies for the end of the evening at the Quartier des spectacles. Accompanied by a brass band, he will be a DJ, from 11 p.m. to midnight, to get the crowd dancing.
The last two editions of the big National Day show had been presented without an audience, due to the health crisis, and had been pre-recorded at the Cogeco Amphitheater in Trois-Rivières, in 2020, and near the Manoir Richelieu in Charlevoix, in 2021.
Thursday’s show will be broadcast simultaneously on the radio on Cogeco Media’s music stations (96.9 CKOI, the five stations Rythme, CIME and Planète) and will be rebroadcast on June 24, at 8 p.m., on ICI Radio- Canada TV and VAT. It will be available on the ICI Tou.tv and TVA+ online platforms from June 25.
This text was notably written froman interview conducted by Claudia Hébert, cultural columnist on the show All one morning. Comments may have been edited for clarity or conciseness.
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