50 years of great moments

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Normand Brathwaite and Mélissa Lavergne, will host the evening which will be composed of a ” barrage of hits “.

Sandra Godin

Saturday, 15 July 2017 21:26

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With his house band, the team of Belle et Bum promises to revive the great moments of the last 50 years of the summer Festival, Sunday evening, at the parc de la Francophonie. The evening, hosted by Normand Brathwaite and Mélissa Lavergne, will host a myriad of guests.

Patrice Michaud will mark the transition point of the Rolling Stones in 2015, while Yann Perreau and Élage Diouf we remembering the unforgettable concert of the Roommates on the Plains in 1999. Covers of Stevie Wonder, Jean-Pierre Ferland, and Elton John, by Marie-Pierre Arthur and Beyries, are waiting for you.

Claude Dubois and Éric Lapointe’s will go up on the stage. It is artists who have all been important to the summer Festival, but also for Belle and Bum. The artistic director, Fanny St-Amand, promises a ” barrage of hits “.

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Élage Diouf will be part of those who revisit the show’s memorable 1999 of the Roommates on the Plains.

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“It is a sequence of hits from the beginning to the end,” she said. The artists will emphasize important passages of the FEQ, but they will also perform their own hits. We can expect them to dance and move. This will be very, very festive, but also with some moments touching. It is in our mandate to create improbable encounters. “

For the occasion, the band Belle and Bum will be enhanced by a choir of three people.

The show will be recorded for broadcast on the 16th of September next, at 21 h, at Télé-Québec. This brings a lot of challenges for the production team.

“It is full of challenges, but not in terms of content,” explains Fanny St-Amand. This is more for logistics. In tv, it is accustomed to everything to be prepared. It is accustomed to work each issue with the lighting accurate. There, we will have lighting, but we have not been able to see it. This will be the day, when we will repeat. “

“And there will be very little time to install it and repeat the show, which includes a lot of artists, so a lot of inputs and outputs “, she says.

But she says that the show has been designed “first and foremost” for the people on site. “On tv, it actually breaks to make the change instrumentation. Here, there’s never going to stop the show. You want to keep the energy and put on a show for the spectators. “

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Marie-Pierre Arthur, accompanied by Beyries, will play covers of many great quebec artists and international.

15 years of Belle et Bum

Belle et Bum will also celebrate its 15th anniversary, on Sunday evening. Nowadays, on tv, in a program that is broadcast so long, it is more and more rare.

“This is never acquired, supports Normand Brathwaite. When we arrived at the 13th season, Melissa said that we should start doing live shows, to be put to the challenge. You don’t have the right to sit on your laurels. It has added a lot to the show, we found ourselves in situations of danger. “

The show was held Sunday evening at the parc de la Francophonie at 20: 30. It will be released on September 16, at Télé-Québec.