For individuals who don’t know Competition d’été de Québec is the SECOND largest music competition in Canada for the time being. The 11 day occasion runs yearly each July and options among the largest native & worldwide artists. This 12 months we have been graciously invited to take a look at the primary three days, which included performances from Foo Fighters, Think about Dragons, Weezer, Billy Expertise & a lot extra.

Arriving on day one, you possibly can immediately really feel like one thing massive was taking place within the air. A lot of final minute crew operating round and tons of individuals swarmed the streets to take a look at the sights. Moreover the primary stage which homes 90,000 individuals. There have been 3 different phases plotted all inside a ten minute strolling distance subsequent to tons of lovely structure and eating places and bars to hold between units.

Principal Stage (Bell Stage) gates have been jam filled with followers desperate to get their entrance row seat for every day. For all three days at as quickly as 6PM got here you’d see a sea of followers actually operating to get their spots on the obstacles. The 90,000 shortly constructed each evening and have become a blur of vitality when that first mic test went by means of.

With every artist or band that performed it appeared such as you have been taken away to a competition in the identical vein as Glastonbury or someplace abroad. Our hometown boys Billy Expertise have been as swish and rocking as ever. Weezer, who performed days earlier than didn’t miss a beat. Think about Dragons have been fairly astonishing and received 90,000 mobile phone lights shining brilliant which you possibly can see from kilometres away. Each assist band was the proper choice to construct up into the headliners. We might be right here all day if we talked about, however we thanks all!

The additional particular deal with was testing Foo Fighters. This was their one out of solely TWO performances in Canada because the current passing of Taylor Hawkins. Folks travelled from all around the nation to catch a glimpse of the ability of that band particularly with a brand new drummer going down within the mighty shadow of Hawkins The band didn’t disappoint and had 90,000 individuals singing nearly lyric to lyric.

Not solely you had a whole afternoon and night of music. Programming carried into the evening at 11PM with EXTRAS FEQ. This included two DJ units which performed deep into the evening to maintain the celebration going.

Total. You shouldn’t hesitate on testing Competition d’été de Québec subsequent 12 months. Dates are locked in for July 4th-14th, 2024. Click on right here to maintain as much as dates with artist bulletins and learn how to rating your tickets.