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Victoriaville draws big names to musique actuelle festival

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Mike
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VICTO is one again previewed.

With pioneering jazz figures John Zorn and Roscoe Mitchell, some experimental rock and noise, and a smattering of electronica, the Festival de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville is set for a retrospective as its 25th edition.

The five-day creative music festival opens Thursday, May 15 with Montreal based saxophonist/composer Jean Derome, a dozen of the city’s best musique actuelle musicians and a work that salutes Victo.

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