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SUMMARY:Fricot Franco Festival
DESCRIPTION:The major new addition to the 2026 calendar is the inaugural Fricot Franco Festival\, taking place August 12 to 16. Inspired by the traditional Acadian dish from which it takes its name\, this brand-new festival blends music\, comedy\, and francophone culture into a celebration where every ingredient contributes its own unique flavour. The festival will feature five days of free performances in the heart of Dieppe\, culminating in the official National Acadian Day show on August 15\, produced by the Société nationale de l’Acadie and aired by Radio-Canada Acadie. The evening will showcase performances by Lisa LeBlanc\, Laurie LeBlanc\, Les Gars du Nord\, Colleen Power\, and many other artists\, under the artistic direction of René Poirier and emceed by Menoncle Jason. 
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LOCATION:New Brunswick
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SUMMARY:Jean-Michel Blais
DESCRIPTION:Jean-Michel Blais is a Montréal-based pianist\, composer\, and performer. His debut album Il was named one of Time Magazine’s Top 10 Albums of 2016\, launching an international career that has since accumulated more than 580 million streams worldwide. Known for blending virtuosity with emotional clarity\, Blais creates music that moves fluidly between solo piano\, orchestral writing\, and electronic textures\, often shaped by improvisation and deeply personal expression. As a member of the LGBTQ+ community and someone living with Tourette’s syndrome\, he also draws insight from his experience as a special needs educator\, bringing a rare sensitivity and humanity to his work. \nJean-Michel Blais was ready to make an epic statement. mirador\, the pianist-composer’s fourth album\, finds the Montrealer turning his gaze onto a wondrous world—exchanging contemporary minimalism for a light and generous maximalism. It’s an odyssey that spans choirs\, strings and the music of the Andes\, from Spanish caves to Estonian forests and all the way back to the basement in Nicolet\, Québec\, where Blais first imagined adventures. \nThe origins of mirador were remembrances from childhood. As a musical kid—and\, even if he wasn’t fully aware of these things yet\, as a queer person\, with Tourette’s—Blais’ basement was his imaginary lookout\, his mirador\, from which he could dream the world. There\, he’d browse in wonder through a Larousse encyclopedia; he’d play with the family’s cheap Hammond organ and endlessly replay the same cassettes. \nFor 2022’s aubades\, Blais had begun experimenting with orchestration. Now\, he was drawn to the promise of the human voice—of singing as “pure instrument.” Working from his apartment’s flimsy kitchen island\, Blais conceived a 12-part chorus\, without lyrics. Soon\, with help from William Brittelle (LA Philharmonic\, The National)\, he had assembled a choir of baroque singers—and then added a string quartet of his friends. \nComposing this material “unleashed something\,” Blais says. One of his prized childhood tapes had been a bootleg of music from the Andes\, recorded off the radio. His parents\, who were amateur ballroom dancers\, had taught their son to dance the salsa\, the mambo\, the cha-cha. He had taught himself Spanish—and was so moved by his first visit to Central America that he wanted to quit the music conservatory and give all his possessions away. Throughout Blais’ twenties\, he made visits to Nicaragua\, Guatemala and Argentina\, falling in love with traditional Andean folksong\, especially artists like Los Kjarkas and Charijayac. On mirador\, Jean-Michel Blais offers a path back to childhood—cut a crown from a piece of paper and suddenly you have a kingdom.
URL:https://yourgreatermoncton.ca/event/jean-michel-blais/
LOCATION:Capitol Theatre\, 811 Main\, Moncton\, New Brunswick\, E1C 1G1\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Pierre Hébert Grandiose
DESCRIPTION:Every morning\, we wake up with the same goal: to make our lives grand. \nWe dream about it\, we exhaust ourselves chasing it\, we lose ourselves along the way\, we stumble\, we get back up and sometimes\, just for a fleeting moment\, we actually get there. And in that instant\, everything suddenly makes sense. Every effort\, every detour\, every setback was worth it for that perfect moment that feels like it says it all… right before everything slips away again. \nFour years after the end of his tour Le goût du risque\, Pierre Hébert is finally back on the road with a brand-new show: Grandiose. \nHe returns as the same sharp-witted\, sometimes cheeky\, sometimes unexpectedly moving storyteller. Offering a fresh\, humorous\, and wide-eyed look at the world around us\, and the absurd beauty of chasing something bigger than ourselves. \nPerformance in French.
URL:https://yourgreatermoncton.ca/event/pierre-hebert-grandiose/
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