Here are my choice Montreal arts and culture highlights for January 2020: MUSIC Following the holiday season, the Montreal concert scene is starting to heat up again. Highlights include the only Canadian stop of famed American musician and conductor Damien Sneed’s North American tour of We Shall Overcome: A Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. which […]
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Must-See Montreal Events in January 2019
Here are my choice Montreal arts and culture highlights for January 2019: MUSIC Many top touring acts are headlining various Montreal concert venues this month. Highlights include Panic! At The Disco (Jan. 12) with out frontman Brendon Urie, and American rapper A$AP Rocky’s Injured Generation Tour (Jan. 13), both headlining Place Bell; and Bryan Adams (Jan. […]
Must-See Montreal Events in January 2018
Here are my choice Montreal arts and culture highlights for January 2018: MUSIC The live music scene kicks off the year a little quietly as Montrealers avoid the deep freeze and try to save a few bucks after the holiday season. Some of the bigger names headed to town are The Killers (Place Bell on January […]
Must-see Montreal events in February 2017
Here are some Montreal arts and culture highlights for February 2017: MUSEUMS The blockbuster exhibition Chagall: Colour and Music at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts features some 500 works and documents—paintings, collages, watercolours, sculptures, stained glass windows and ceramics—which show how the aesthetic and artistic world of famed Russian-French artist Marc Chagall (1887-1985) is imbued with […]
Must-see Montreal events in January 2017
Here are some Montreal arts and culture highlights for January 2017: The year kicks off with the Broadway touring production of the Tony-winning musical Kinky Boots which headlines Salle Wilfred-Pelletier from Jan. 3 to 8. After winning Best Original Score at the 2013 Tony Awards, Cyndi Lauper told me, “I didn’t stop to think I was the first woman to win that award […]
Samantha’s Weekend Roundup
Ongoing **Colours of Jazz: Discover Montreal of the 1920s with he Beaver Hall Group. Until January 31, 2016 at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. https://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/exhibitions/on-view/the-beaver-hall-group/ DJ on Ice at Le Vieux Port de Montreal every Thursday until February 26, 2016 http://www.oldportofmontreal.com/event/dj-on-ice IglooFest at Quartier du Vieux Montreal until February 6, 2016. http://igloofest.ca/en/events/ La Fête […]
Samantha’s Weekend Roundup
Image from DJ on Ice Ongoing Montreal Auto Show at Palais des Congrès until January 24, 2016 http://www.montrealautoshow.com/en/ Hot Chocolate Tour until January 24, 2016 at participating locations, see website for more info. http://www.tableedeschefs.org/fr/evenements/calendrier/la-grande-tournee-du-chocolat-chaud-en-janvier DJ on Ice at Le Vieux Port de Montreal every Thursday until February 26, 2016 http://www.oldportofmontreal.com/event/dj-on-ice Colours of Jazz: Discover Montreal […]
Samantha’s Weekend Roundup
Ongoing Terminus at the Centaur Theatre until February 15, 2015 http://www.centaurtheatre.com/terminus.php Visite Guidée de la Luminothérapie until January 31, 2015 at Quartier des Spectacles http://www.quartierdesspectacles.com/en/discover-the-quartier/pathway-and-visits/ Forever Plaid at the Segal Centre February 1 – 22, 2015 http://www.segalcentre.org/whats-on/upcoming-events/theatre-3/segal-theatre/forever-plaid/ Igloofest at the Old Port until February 8, 2015 http://www.igloofest.ca La Fête des Neiges de Montréal at […]
Samantha’s Weekend Roundup
Ongoing **Van Gogh to Kandinsky: From Impressionism to Expressionism, 1900-1914, at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts until January 25, 2015 http://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/exhibitions/on-view/vangogh-kandinsky/ Visite Guidée de la Luminothérapie until January 31, 2015 at Quartier des Spectacles http://www.quartierdesspectacles.com/en/discover-the-quartier/pathway-and-visits/ Igloofest at the Old Port until February 8, 2015 http://www.igloofest.ca La Fête des Neiges de Montréal at Parc Jean-Drapeau […]






