Victoriaville music fest back with broad palette of styles

The upcoming Victoriaville fest is previewed:

Off the beaten track is the way music fans like to describe both this city and the music festival it’s been hosting since 1983. The four-day Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville – Canada’s oldest and best-known showcase of experimental music – kicks off tomorrow with its usual eclectic mix. The festival, which acquired a worldwide reputation after humble beginnings in an automobile vendor’s showroom for bold and imaginative programming, once again presents a broad palette of musical styles, from free jazz to electronica and Inuit throat singing. This year’s series of 20 concerts returns follows a one-year sabbatical, during which festival boss Michel Levasseur firmed up financial commitments, expanded with free outdoor events and concentrated more of the concerts in the main venue, the hockey Colisée. Among innovations are three sound installations, one indoors with the intriguing title, Concrete Music Solo for six Pianos Without a Pianist – the music being a repeating 30-minute collage of samples from such luminaries as Sun Ra and Duke Ellington.

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