{"id":863690,"date":"2026-08-19T11:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T11:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/863690\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T11:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T11:44:10","slug":"trad-montreal-festival-celebrating-traditional-music-and-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/863690\/","title":{"rendered":"Trad Montr\u00e9al Festival &#8211; celebrating traditional music and dance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Launched in 1993 under the artistic direction of Gilles Garand, the La Grande Rencontre Festival has become a cornerstone of cultural life in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and beyond. It champions the arts of the traditional social gathering (\u201cveill\u00e9e\u201d) and living heritage through a wide range of cultural activities, including major concerts, dance gatherings, training and skills-transmission workshops, entertainment, music sessions, and more. Over the years, more than 2,700 artists from Quebec, Canada, the United States, and Europe have contributed to the Festival\u2019s renown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since 2021, the Trad Montr\u00e9al Festival (formerly La Grande Rencontre) has positioned itself at the forefront of tradition. An innovative, relevant, and inclusive festival, it helps shape the future identity of the trad scene and spotlights the bridges the trad artistic community builds between contemporary trends and traditional arts.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"547\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Pine-Tree-Flyers.webp\" alt=\"Pine Tree Flyers\" class=\"wp-image-84037\"  \/>Pine Tree Flyers<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This commitment to passing on and sharing knowledge\u2014which lies at the very heart of traditional culture, a culture of the people, by and for the people\u2014is accompanied by a deep desire to bring together artists, cultural practitioners, and audiences from all generations and communities around a unifying event that fosters social cohesion, reciprocity, and mutual discovery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Festival aims to bring together the artists, artisans, researchers, and tradition-bearers who shape the identity of the Quebec trad community through music, dance, song, storytelling, and other disciplines. It serves as a home base for the community and develops innovative spaces where it can express itself and diversify within Montreal. The Festival transmits traditional culture, stimulates its development, and fosters its reach across Quebec, Canada, and the rest of the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spanning three days\u2014from September 4 to 6\u2014at the Maison de la Culture Ahuntsic and Ahuntsic Park, the 2026 program will feature stage performances, preview concerts, a traditional dance evening, roving performances, a family-friendly village of booths, talks, music and dance workshops, amateur music sessions, masterclasses, entertainment, and much more.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"529\" height=\"378\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/OLIVIER-SOUCY-EN-TRIO.webp\" alt=\"Olivier Soucy en trio\" class=\"wp-image-84035\"  \/>Olivier Soucy en trio<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Friday, September 4, 2026<br \/>Olivier Par\u00e9<br \/>Sandrine Masse<br \/>Pine Tree Flyers<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saturday, September 5, 2026<br \/>L\u2019Ensemble de l\u2019\u00c9cole des arts de la veill\u00e9e<br \/>Pascal Gemme<br \/>Benoit Legault<br \/>Marie-Soleil Pilette<br \/>Carmen Gu\u00e9rard<br \/>Malvenn<br \/>Yaro<br \/>Plume<br \/>Olivier Soucy en trio<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Louis-Philippe-Pharand.webp\" alt=\"Louis\u2011Philippe Pharand\" class=\"wp-image-84036\"  \/>Louis\u2011Philippe Pharand<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sunday, September 6, 2026<br \/>la Fanfare de L\u2019\u00eele<br \/>Jean Duval<br \/>Volages<br \/>l\u2019Ensemble Trad Jeunesse<br \/>Zeugma Danse<br \/>Maxence Croteau<br \/>Louis\u2011Simon Lemieux<br \/>Louis\u2011Philippe Pharand<br \/>Laurence Beaudry<br \/>Plume<br \/>Les Mercenaires du terroir<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Trad Montr\u00e9al Festival invites you to its 34th edition\u2014a vibrant crossroads where the traditions of yesterday meet those of today. It is a next-generation festival, serving as both a showcase and an incubator for the traditional music scene of tomorrow in Montreal and Quebec.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For information on each of these artists, visit:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/festivaltradmontreal.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">www.festivaltradmontreal.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Launched in 1993 under the artistic direction of Gilles Garand, the La Grande Rencontre Festival has become a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":863691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[300344,49,48,589,10095,2338,341],"class_list":["post-863690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ahuntsic","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-festival","tag-live-events","tag-montreal","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863690","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=863690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}