{"id":839646,"date":"2026-08-01T04:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T04:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/839646\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T04:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T04:30:12","slug":"music-celebration-to-commemorate-50th-anniversary-of-montreal-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/839646\/","title":{"rendered":"Music celebration to commemorate 50th anniversary of Montreal Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Montreal is marking the 50th anniversary of the 1976 Summer Olympics with a series of <a href=\"https:\/\/parcolympique.qc.ca\/en\/what-to-do\/olympic-games-50th-anniversary-show\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">events<\/a> celebrating the city\u2019s Olympic legacy.<\/p>\n<p>The main event will be a free musical performance at Olympic Park on Saturday, Aug. 1 at 9 p.m. Directed and composed by Alex McMahon, the show Feu sacr\u00e9 will feature performances by Ariane Moffatt, Loud, Robert Charlebois, Dubmatique and circus troupe Les 7 doigts.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers say the production will focus on themes of memory, heritage and the future, while bringing together athletes and artists to honour the historic Games.<\/p>\n<p>Olympic icons will also take part in anniversary events, including Romanian gymnast Nadia Com\u0103neci, who made history in Montreal in 1976 by earning the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics.<\/p>\n<p>Com\u0103neci will receive an honorary doctorate from Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al and take part in the unveiling of a commemorative plaque at Centre Claude-Robillard Friday. She will also join Olympic athletes and officials at the McCord Stewart Museum to visit the exhibition Montreal 1976: An Olympic Legacy.<\/p>\n<p>Followed by \u201cNadia Day\u201d at the Olympic Park, where people sharing her first name will gather to meet the Romanian gymnastics icon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-6-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-497714\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The weekend celebrations will also include events highlighting the lasting impact of the Games, including a fencing demonstration with Olympic fencing champion Thomas Bach and Canadian Olympic Committee president Tricia Smith.<\/p>\n<p>The Esplanade Pie-IX du Parc olympique opens at 5 p.m. on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Montreal as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=montreal.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782077411_500_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montreal is marking the 50th anniversary of the 1976 Summer Olympics with a series of events celebrating the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":839647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-839646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}