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After an intense musical tour of 80 shows, the jury for the 22nd Miroir Awards - made up of Daniel Bravo (President), Erwan Cassez (Coordinator), Paulette Dufour, Marième Ndiaye, Stephane Gonzalez and Paul Gadbois, revealed the winners.

Check the list of all the winners.

“Seldom have we seen such harmony among performers, the public and their festival! Even before the numbers on sales and attendance, which promise to be exceptional this year, are in, we will remember this 43rd Festival d’été de Québec for all the smiling faces, the gestures of generosity, the many appreciative comments and the obvious pleasure of just being there,” affirmed the Chair of the Board for the Festival d’été de Québec, Marie-France Poulin.

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Pendant le Festival, les jeunes de moins de 12 ans accompagnés d’un adulte ne sont pas tenus de porter le laissez-passer pour assister aux spectacles. Comme des foules importantes sont attendues sur les plaines d’Abraham au cours des prochains jours, nous demandons aux parents et accompagnateurs de faire preuve de vigilance lorsqu’ils se présenteront sur le site avec des enfants.

Bienvenus et bon Festival!

Now that all passes are sold out, some people have been offering passes on Facebook and similar websites. Although it is not the Festival's editorial policy to censure user comments, the Festival d’été de Québec does not condone, nor encourage the sale of passes, which remains prohibited.

This year, the Festival d’été de Québec is presenting another extreme event. The troupe Xarxa Teatre, from Valencia, masters of pyrotechnics who combine music, street arts and theatre, give a unique, bold, breathtaking performance at 9:30 pm on July 16 and 17 at the Cartier-Brébeuf Historic Site of Canada (Park Cartier-Brébeuf).This event is an Arts de la rue Loto-Québec presentation.

For all the details, check our press release.

As of Thursday, July 15 and until the close of the Festival, there is a new giant screen zone behind the Bell Stage, restricted to access with passes. To accommodate festivalgoers, there are reserved bars and restrooms in this section.

There are two entrances to this zone:

- Through the entrance on Avenue Georges VI behind the Concorde.
- Through the main entrance, next to the Cross of Sacrifice.

IMPORTANT NOTICE – You can enter the Giant Screen Zone from the Bell Stage site, but the opposite is not allowed. If you want to go from the Giant Screen Zone to the main site, you must use the Avenue Wilfrid-Laurier entrance.


Map of the site

Pour cette 43e édition, le Festival d’été de Québec a posé un geste de solidarité envers Haïti. Deux actions différentes ont permis de ramasser un peu plus de 25 000$ pour des projets concrets qui seront réalisés au cours de la prochaine année dans cet état francophone dévasté par un tremblement de terre il y a tout juste 6 mois.

Pour tous les détails, consultez notre comuniqué.

The Festival d’été de Québec will be awarding its 22nd Prix Miroir, sponsored by Sodec, on July 19. The Jury - presided by Daniel Bravo and made up of Erwan Cassez, Paulette Dufour, Marième Ndiaye, Stéphane Gonzalez and Paul Gadbois – will name the winners of the Prix Miroir awards for French Language Song, World Music and Folklore, Best Canadian Artist, Urban and Contemporary Music and the Jury’s Pick. The public will vote for the winner of the Prix Miroir for the Most Popular Show.

For all the details, check our press release.

For his outstanding contribution to Québec’s living heritage, the Festival d’été de Québec awarded the 2010 Prix Miroir Tribute to Gilles Vigneault today.

For all the details, check our press release.

The Festival d’été de Québec waits important crowds for some of the concerts presented next week-end, RUSH (July 15), The Black Eyed Peas (July 16), BILLY TALENT (July 17) and Rammstein (July 18).

For those last 4 days of the Festival, an additional giant screen on a new zone, will be set up behind the Bell Stage. Only the festivalgoers with the Hydro-Québec Pass will have access to this zone. More fans will be able to enjoy these shows!

The Festival d’été de Québec has reached a major milestone in its development. All 150,000 flashing Hydro-Québec passes for this 43rd edition have been sold out, barely two days after the Festival opened.

For all the details, check our press release!

Please be aware that the Cooly G's show, July 9 at Le Cercle is cancelled.
Bowly Sharivari and Millimetrik will perform as planned.
The show still begins at 11 pm.

Dès aujourd'hui les festivaliers et fervents des nouvelles technologies, peuvent télécharger gratuitement la nouvelle Application iPhone du Festival d’été de Québec présentée par Bell!

Développée par Exact Modus, cette application qu’on peut utiliser en mode connecté ou déconnecté, est disponible pour iPhone, iPod Touch et iPad. Elle permet aux usagers d’avoir un accès rapide à l’ensemble de la programmation (par date, heure, scène ou style musical), d’obtenir des informations sur les artistes et de consulter leur contenu multimédia.

Découvrez vous-même les différentes fonctions de l’application, en visionnant le démo préparé par Exact Modus et disponible sur YouTube et visitez la page d'accueil du site du Festival, pour accéder facilement à cette nouvelle application. 

The 43rd Festival d’été de Québec will be getting underway in just a few days. From July 8 to 18, more than 1 million festivalgoers will converge on the event’s sites around Quebec City. To get ready for the busy days ahead, festival management, city representatives and representatives from the Réseau de transport de la Capitale detailed the control and safety measures they have planned to make this event a success once again this year.

For all the details about our Pass, the sites and more useful informations, read our Press Release.

Arcade Fire wanted haïtian musicians as openning act on the Scène Bell. With the help of the Festival d'été, they choose RAM, spearheading the mizik rasin blend of rock and voodoo culture. Discover them July 12!

Harry Manx, will perform Sunday July 11, at the Impérial. Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, initially planned on that date, had to cancel his show for health reasons.

The Aboriginal multi-instrumentalist and singer Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, must cancel is show for health matters.

The Festival d'été de Québec wishes him a speedy recovery.

Their new album, THE FINAL FRONTIER, will be in store August 17, but until then Iron Maiden offers you a free download of the song ELDORADO!

Follow the link by clicking on the image below :



Don't forget that Iron Maiden will perform at the Festival d'été de Québec Friday July 9 at 9 PM, on Scène Bell!

Today the Festival d’été de Québec announced all the artists that will perform between July 8 to 18. Some of the names were already known since April and this afternoon the rest of the program was announced.

Check all the details in our Press Releases, have a nice Festival!

Après une semaine de débat sur la programmation du Festival d’été de Québec, son contenu francophone et la présence de vedettes internationales, nous nous permettons d’intervenir pour rétablir les faits.

D’abord, il est important d’identifier ce qu’est le Festival d’été de Québec dans le monde événementiel. Sa mission le dit : « le Festival doit animer, l’année durant, la ville de Québec, pour tous les gens d’ici et d’ailleurs, avec une fête des arts de la scène et de la rue valorisant la chanson francophone et les projets de création, tout en étant ouverte au reste de la production culturelle dans le monde et à la découverte. ». C’est un événement musical qui a comme objectif de faire connaître, faire plaisir et divertir.

La programmation exceptionnelle élaborée cette année est une photographie actuelle du paysage musical mondial. Oui, il y a de grandes vedettes internationales. Les plus populaires mêmes seront là cet été! Québec aura aussi ce qui se fait de mieux en musiques du monde. Des artistes établis chez eux, encore méconnus ici et qui ne seraient jamais venus si ce n’était de l’invitation du Festival. 23 pays seront représentés, une variété de langues seront chantées, de l’inuktitut aux dialectes africains. Avec eux, 70 artistes québécois qui s’exprimeront en français et en anglais, joueront du tango, du rock, du hip hop.

Cette programmation de haut niveau n’est pas le fruit du hasard, elle est le résultat d’un plan de développement réfléchi, rigoureux. Le Festival a été attaqué de toutes parts au début des années 2000 pour la redondance de sa programmation et la chute de son rayonnement. S’en est suivi un important virage pour répondre aux attentes et à la volonté du public, des touristes et des médias. Depuis, l’achalandage augmente, les revenus aussi, les touristes sont plus nombreux et le rayonnement international de Québec s’accroît. Sans compter les retombées économiques. Un succès dont nous sommes très fiers!

Il est bon de rappeler que ce sont les commanditaires et les festivaliers, en achetant leurs laissez-passer, qui assument les coûts des vedettes internationales. Grâce aux revenus ainsi générés, le Festival peut investir et offrir sur ses autres scènes des contenus riches et variés, des activités pour la famille et des prestations en arts de la rue originales et époustouflantes. Le financement public permet de compléter ces volets de programmation. C’est cette profondeur qui donne au Festival d’été de Québec sa personnalité.

Dans moins de 2 mois, le Festival battra son plein, des milliers de personnes – plus de 100 000 ont déjà acheté leur laissez-passer - envahiront Québec. Ils viendront témoigner de la qualité de la programmation, s’amuser, découvrir, fêter, ce qui est l’essence même d’un festival.

Espérons, qu’encore une fois, plus de 98 %¹ d’entre eux seront satisfaits.


Marie-France Poulin
Présidente du conseil d’administration


¹ Sondages SOM des 3 dernières années

The Festival d'été de Québec is very proud to welcome the Montréal singer-songwriter Bernard Adamus, winner at the recent edition of the Francouvertes!

Saturday July 17 on the Scène Metro at Place d'Youville!

The Festival d'été international de Québec was rewarded with the third place, Bronze, at the Gala des Grands prix du tourisme québécois in Montréal, May 7, in the category :

« Prix TVA : Tourist event of the year, operating budget of $1M or more ».

The Festival d'été international de Québec congratulates the other winners in the same category : l'International de Montgolfières de Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu in Montérégie (Gold) and GP3R in Mauricie (Silver).

The FEIQ was rewarded for « Tourist event of the year, operating budget of $1M or more. » at Gala du Grand Prix du tourisme 2010 for the Quebec area, March 30.

Three new names for the Festival d'été de Québec!

- Loco Locass will open for Gilles Vigneault, Wednesday July 14 at Scène Bell.
- Yann Perreau, Sunday July 11 at Scène Metro.
- Jah & I will open for Fool's Gold and The Cat Empire, Wednesday July 14 at Scène Molson Dry.

The list of all the shows already announced.

The Festival d'été de Québec had listened to the comments. 15 000 new Hydro-Québec Passes will be available in the Metro supermarkets of Québec area. These Passes will be on sale Thursday, May 6 from 8 am. The Festival also confirm that at least 5000 passes will be on sale on the festival's sites during the event begining Thursday, July 8.

25 000 passes sold this week-end, don't worry there are some left!

Our customer office reach some festivalers who found some problem and we add a second toll free number (1-877-245-5387) so it should be easier to reach our Ticket Office.

This week, the Festival d'été de Québec will take some decisions about what will happen next concerning the sale.

Visit our web site regularly to stay inform.

Thousands of persons had bought their Hydro-Québec Pass for the Festival d'été de Québec today. More than 7 millions of requests were recorded on the first hour of the sale, so our system was slower in the first part of the day. Fortunately, our team was there to handle that.

The sale goes on :

•    On line www.infofestival.com

•    By phone 1 877-841-2010

60 000 passes are on sale at 50 $ taxes included plus service fees (54$).

Press Release (in French)

There are a lot of requests on the online Ticket Office and we try to stop the scalpers, so the system is a little slow. We still have a lot of passes, thanks for your patience. 

There was a mistake in some advertisements.
We're sorry about that !

The phone number of the Ticket Office to buy Hydro-Québec Passes for the Festival d’été de Québec is 1-877-841-2010

It will be open from 10 am, Saturday May 1.

Thanks and have a nice Festival!!

There are only some Hydro-Québec passes available at the Metro supermarkets at 977 Cartier Street.

Thanks for your enthousiastic answer to this advance sale!

Be there this Saturday May 1st 10 AM, for the online sale or by phone at 1-877-841-2010.

For all the details.

Depuis ce matin, plus de 50 000 laissez-passer ont déjà trouvé preneurs! Il en resterait quelques miliers répartis dans les 3 Metro suivants :

Basse-ville (860 Charest Est)
Coin Marie-de-l'Incarnation (707 Charest Ouest)
Haute-ville (977 Cartier)

N'oubliez pas la vente à prix régulier (54$, taxes et frais de service inclus), ce samedi 1er mai dès 10h sur le site du Festival et par téléphone au 1-877-841-2010.

This morning begins the advance sale of our Hydro-Québec Pass. The best deal to see all of the shows during The Festival d'été de Québec.

Go to one of the Metro supermarkets in the Québec City area!

All the details about the passes.
Participating Metro supermarkets. (pdf)

Limit of 4 by person.

Our complete program will be known in June, meanwhile here is a partial calendar, so you can have a look to every shows annonced at our press conference today in just one look.

The Festival d'été has other surprises for you, more news in June. Visit our website regularly!

Partial Program (PDF)

A new confirmation for the next Festival d'été de Québec, the american band Passion Pit. This rock independant quintet will perform at Scène Molson Dry (Pigeonnier), Sunday July 11th.

More details

The Festival line-up will be announced in one week, Thusday 27th!

The Festival presents the folk-indie singer from Chicago Andrew Bird, July 9th at L'Impérial.

More details

Le Festival d'été de Québec is pleased to announce that the legendary Canadian rock band, RUSH, will be coming to the Festival for the first time. The three band members, bassist, keyboardist and lead vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson and drummer and lyricist Neil Peart, will play on the Scène Bell on the Plains of Abraham on July 15.

Read the press release

The musician, director, actor, producer and winner of two Palmes d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, Emir Kusturica with his group The No Smoking Orchestra will perform at the next Quebec City Summer Festival! This will be the first visit in Quebec City for this Serbian band, which musical critics have defined their style as Gypsy techno-rock. Don't miss them on the Festival openning night, July the 8 at Place d'Youville.

After Rammstein and Charlie Winston, the Quebec City Summer Festival is proud to confirm the presence of the British rock group The Heavy and the canadian singer Jill Barber, next summer.

The Heavy, openning act for Girl Talk in 2009, will be back Saturday July 10 at L'Impérial, with his new album The house that dirt built.

Jill Barber, will present her original jazz songs Thursday July 15, also on the same stage. In February, her Chances concert at Café-Spectacles du Palais Montcalm was sold out.

The Quebec City Summer Festival was named 2009 Regional Tourist Event of the Year at last night’s Grands Prix du tourisme québécois Regional Awards Gala. Finalist in the category Festivals and Tourist Events – operating budget of $1M or more, the Festival was awarded the top prize for its constant growth and outstanding productions and because it is an international calibre event that promotes Québec on the world scene.

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The Quebec City Summer Festival is proud to encourage Christian Papillon, Festival's employee, for his 4th participaction in the spectular event The Red Bull Crashed Ice! Good luck Christian!

The Quebec City Summer Festival is proud to present the new british sensation Charlie Winston, July the 12th 2010!

His second CD, Hobo, is now available in Canada. It looks like he already has some fans here; his recent concert in Montreal (March 11th 2010), was sold out.

www.charliewinston.com

Much of the 2010 lineup, including the exclusive shows,will be released on April 27! Don't forget that the first 60,000 badges for the Quebec City Summer Festival will go on sale on April 28 in greater Quebec City area Metro supermarket and on line at regular price on May the 1st.

The first 60,000 badges for the Quebec City Summer Festival will go on sale on April 28 in greater Quebec City area Metro supermarkets. Offered at a $35 early-bird price, these badges were snapped up in less than 30 hours last year, so Festival fans are advised to hurry to get their badges again this year!

This year, the Quebec City Summer Festival has found a new way to make life easier for festivalgoers: like all major events of its kind, it now has online ticketing. As of 10 AM on Saturday, May 1, another 60,000 Hydro-Québec badges will be offered at the regular price on the Festival website.

Read the press release

It's now official, Rammstein will close the Québec City Summer Festival on July 18, 2010.

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Plácido Domingo, the Québec Symphony Orchestra and the Quebec City Summer Festival are Opus Award finalists for the July 17, 2009 concert on the Plains of Abraham. The Opus Awards have been presented by the Conseil québécois de la musique for the past 13 years. Winners will be announced on January 31.

The 5 nominees for Concert of the Year - Québec are:

Beethoven et Mihaela Ursuleasa, Les Violons du Roy, March 14, 2009

Une voix dans la nuit, Les Violons du Roy, April 16, 2009

Soirée La maison Simons, Marianne Fiset, soprano, Marie-Ève Scarfone, piano, Société de musique de chambre de Sainte-Pétronille, July 16, 2009

Plácido Domingo in Québec, The Québec Symphony Orchestra and the Quebec City Summer Festival, July 17, 2009

Soirée Pianos André Bolduc, Matt Haimovitz, cello, Jean Marchand, piano, Société de musique de chambre de Sainte-Pétronille, July 30, 2009

between Les FrancoFolies de Montréal and the Quebec City Summer Festival

Because they take the future of French song to heart, the organizers of the FrancoFolies de Montréal and the Quebec City Summer Festival have come to an agreement. These two music events can now continue to grow without interfering with each other and above all, continue to promote international French song in Québec.

PRESS RELEASE

A first Quebec City Summer Festival will be held outside the city in New Richmond, next July 22 to 25.

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Plus de 1 224 000 personnes sont venues au Festival d’été de Québec cette année. C’est plus qu’en 2007, année au cours de laquelle le Festival a atteint le million d’achalandage pour la première fois. L’année du 400e anniversaire de Québec a été exceptionnelle avec 1 700 000 visiteurs.

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