The Chorale du Peuple reappropriates pop songs by adding lyrics that are critical of capitalism and the neoliberal agenda. The choir is an offshoot of the Occupy Montreal movement.
Mr Parker Quebec is a 4 piece band that grooves in Portuguese, English and French. Its purpose? Mobilize the 99% with some politically conscious tunes.
@ Barfly
June 14th, 9 pm
PWYC
With more than a hundred live performances since they first came out of their seedy practice room in 2007, the group has acquired an ease on stage. Improvisation being a integral part of the groups identity and performance. Bridges to Dreams strives to create an experience that is both exciting and rich for the audience as for themselves.
Barfly
June 16, 9pm
PWYC
http://www.bridgestodreams.net
Sorry, description is unavailable in English.
Présentation sous forme de performance d’une machine à “ne rien faire”: le not’il prout : surmarin flottant à gratter les nuages bas”! Steempunk, absurde, poétique, philosophique
pour touts ages, 30 pers max,en français.
Fresh Paint Gallery
June 20th, 5-7
PWYC
http://docteurprout.free.fr
Visual arts exhibition presented in an alleyway.
Artists will show up on the fly to present pieces made with found/used/discarded objects.
Alleyway behind the Biftek(3702 Blvd St. Laurent)
June 17, 5-8pm
FREE
An activist who doesn’t always agree with the flavour of the month, Laurence Tenenbaum has been Terrorizing the spoken-word scene in Montreal and elsewhere since the mid ’90s. Ever the artist, he paints as well, in assorted and sometimes mixed media.
Barfly
June 21st, 5-7 pm
Free-PWYC
www.prettywordsandthings.com
Originally from Newfoundland, but having grown up on Vancouver Island, Mille was raised in a family of musicians. She was surrounded by many instruments which inspired her to start creating music on her own. As a traveler, she is exploring the musical universe in all its forms, and combines multiple techniques. Moving to Montreal in 2008, she started to play shows in bars and small venues. Her music is a soundtrack to her perception of the world around her and a reflection of her imagination. It is a mix of fairy tales and folk songs which will make your mind wander to a different place for a few moments.
@ Barfly
June 14th, 9 pm
PWYC
SoundCloud
With its creepy legends, immense cemeteries, and numerous ghost-sightings, Mount Royal is undoubtedly the most haunted mountain in Canada. Join professional actor and horror-expert Donovan King on this chilling venture up the slopes of the Haunted Mountain! With special guest Karen Spilak!
Starts at Barfly
June 17, 8pm sharp
$10
Smoke N’ Mirrors is a multimedia arts show designed to challenge people’s perceptions and open up third eyes! A gathering for open minded and politically aware people who enjoy performance based art forms as well as video projections. Celebrating alternative and independent media and research, SnM attempts to break down the illusions created by the mainstream media and uncover the process of social engineering.
Fresh Paint Gallery
June 20th, 9pm
$5 Suggested Donation/Pay-What-You-Can
Jazz Trio
L’Escalier
June 17, 5pm
PWYC
Website
Vernissage
Barfly
June 21, 5-7
PWYC
The debut project from violinist Ari Swan of Heirloom and Little Scream. Looping violins combine with glockenspiel and off-killer vocals to make music that might stay with you.
Barfly
June 21, 9pm
PWYC
http://soundcloud.com/ari-swan
Alexandra Cuellar is an artiste whom is fierce she is interrested in all forms of expressions in the arts, she looks for art at its crude for wich comes from her guts instinct.She says thats art is a life choice.
Barfly
June 21, 5-7pm
PWYC
Autoverse, officially formed in August 2008, is a mix of post no-age indie sounds. Hailing from Western New York, their recent release, Decency in Kind, has a science fiction tinge in its look at society’s lack of acceptance, or decency. The desire for escape is not as real as the message though, even in its irony.
Barfly
June 23, 9pm
PWYC
Autoverse
L`Escalier
June 22, 5pm
PWYC
Calm-Position is a music and dance collective. Composer Tristan Henry and Choreographer Michelle Slattery met last year at Concordia University and have since begun to work on a short ballet entitled Gravity. For the performance at the Infringement Festival Calm-Position will present a wide range of music and dance of some of the other pieces we have been working on. Also some excerpts from the work-in-progress, Gravity.
Fresh Paint Gallery
June 20th, 8 pm
PWYC
Hawaiian Beach Party night! Shake your tikis! Molotov cocktails! Masks! Smoke Bombs! Police escorts! We go all out for special effects! Its the last Candyass Cabaret of the season till we return in September.
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A schmear of delightful sometimes challenging entertainment… for your eyes and ears to feast on. A tasty blend of artists in the heart of the historic entertainment district and the Main. A dab of drag and a bissel of burlesque. Shake your tikis and wear your tackiest tropical shirt its going to be a hot night.
Guizo LaNuit sexy drag king and breaker of ladies hearts is the MC of the evening
The Dead Dolls will misinterpret polynesian dance
Nat King Pole – Drag King extraordinaire !
Delightful burlesque crooner Damiana Dolce
Lady Hoops -sassy and sexy hooper
Diane LaBelle the sublime badass bellydancer
Reena the drag queen will entertain you
Corey and Millie the puppet sing a song of the South Pacific
LIMBO CONTEST! Win incredibly bad prizes in our contest!
Talent! Titties! Toupees!
Get hammered on the Cleopatra Cocktail!! Buy stuff you don’t need from our cute cigarette girl.
The DJ will make you shimmy yer booty after the show as only a stripclub DJ can!
Cafe Cleo, 1230 Saint-Laurent Boul(second floor)
June 22, DOORS : 9pm / Showtime 10pm
Admission : $10
CandyassClub
Facebook Page
Barfly
June 23, 9pm
PWYC
After nine days of intense infringement, artists and collaborators will be partying & dining in style on the mountain!
Gazebo on Mount-Royal (Just north of ave des Pins)
June 24, 5pm
Free / Bring a dish /BYOW/B
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En formule simple: deux voix & guitare + contrebasse. Chansons pertinentes et dévastatrices.
Barfly
June 21, 21h00
Dons
Cortezia
English-language (French in as well) consious-lyric musicsets addressing social justice issues through a mix of house,trance, drum n’bass with hip-hop and country music lyrics
Fresh Paint Gallery
June 20, Time TBA
Request and Donation Cup – All Welcome!
DJ Skoal Live Bootlegs
Elgin-Skye McLaren lives in Montreal where she writes poems, songs and lilting love letters. Armed with an electric guitar and a looping pedal, she plays lo-fi indie-pop with a style reminiscent of artists such as Regina Spektor, Bjork, and Braids. Elgin-Skye’s politeness and humble disposition betray her booming, buoyant voice. Her songs are thoughtful reflections on love, loss, and woodland creatures. Her sets may include, but are not limited to: clapping, whistling, cooing, singing, stomping.
Barfly
June 22, 9pm
PWYC
Elgin-Skye
My work is the fruit of my tree.All gesture born in intention. All intention born in love. For me to work, I must remove my mind from its churning orbit. I work from within, my body is the negotiator of my movement, my forgotten dance that is my own creative voice. Symbol, color and movement. These are the driving forces of the work. Born in abstraction, forms emerge to tell a story. Painting and Spoken Word By Evaly.
Barfly
June 21, 5-7
PWYC
Siren or Mermaid is a tale for adults about loss, obsessive love, pathetic sentiments and mermaid life in general. Participate in this story of the sea and enjoy the company a menopausal mermaid, who remembers her last love for a sea captain and learn from her how to cope with the loss of the love of your life.
Fresh Paint Gallery
June 20, 7pm
PWYC
www.orange-eyes.weebly.com
Jeremiah Wall is a singer songwriter and spoken word artist with a particular emphasis on animal rights and ecology.
@Barfly
June 14th, 9pm
PWYC
L’Escalier
June 22nd, 5pm
PWYC
Josef Mieto is a singer song writer from Ottawa, Ontario. Showcasing an eclectic mix of indie, folk, blues, country and rock. Laced with thought provoking lyrics and organic melodies.
Barfly
June 23, 9pm
PWYC
MySpace
Frog: A woman biologicaly, but lives life as a man. Christy: A woman, half sister to Frog. They love each other…but how?
Follow on Twitter! @lajuliebarbeau 15 minutes before show for show locations!
Sunday, June 17, 2pm to 7pm
Wednesday, June 20, 6pm to 9 pm
Thursday, June 21, 7:30pm to 9pm
Saturday, June 23, 3pm to 7pm
PWYC
As the wrecking ball demolishes the Lower Main National Historic Site, originally created by Velma Candyass and Donovan King, veterans of the struggle to save the Café Cleopatra. A colorful tour of the Red Light that will reveal many secrets! Since the glory days of Nouvelle-France, through the period of Prohibition to the 21st century, this walk explores the “infamous” Red Light District and highlights government attempts to eradicate the neighbourhood, including the most current controversies.
Starts at le Midway, 1219 Saint Laurent
Saturday June 23, 2pm
$10
Once upon a time
there lived a poet
he wrote and wrote
about all he saw
until one day he’d seen enough of the bad things,
and on that day,
he did rebel.
he gathered others
to hear his words,
and they in turn,
were heard by him
and the crowd grew conscious
and the crowd rebelled.
Concordia Co-Op Bookstore
June 19, Time TBA
Free-PWYC
www.prettywordsandthings.com
A Folk Singer/Songwriter from Nova Scotia. Most of Lloyd’s shows have been in the USA, including the 2011 Buffalo Infringement Festival. One of Lloyd’s songs “Won’t You Help Me Dr. Phil?” has been selected by Diversity Music Group to be put in their “Dark Night” compilation CD, starting April Ist. 10,000 physical copies and more than 600,000 digital downloads via e-mail to special guests, Media/Press, and the general public. See my bio at: SonicBids
Barfly
June 22, 9pm
PWYC
L’Escalier
June 16, 5pm
PWYC
http://www.luisflores.com/
www.myspace.com/luisfloresmusica
We ‘d have a scrap fabric tent outdoors. Inside would be a shadow (i.e. shadow puppet) phenomena (narrative and freeform)and improvised music by Tutu Blang Blang.
June 15th
Place TBA
Time TBA
$2 suggested donation
Sorry, description unavailable in English.
Guitariste jazz, improvisateur autodidacte, les prouesses de Gauthier comme interprète l’ont placé sur scène aux côtés de nombreux musiciens de renom international.
L’Escalier
June 18, 5pm
PWYC
MySpace
Sorry, description is unavailable in English.
Jazz manouche.
L’Escalier
June 20, 6pm
PWYC
Individual, couple, and group “clients†are given appointments for infringement therapy: after being diagnosed by a theatrical Doctor, they are prescribed an interactive, dramatic and therapeutic journey. The goal of infringement therapy is to purge the “clients†of their deepest, darkest oppressions, and empower them to transform their daily social reality!
Starts at the Barfly, 4062 St-Laurent boul.
June 19, 5pm
PWYC
OTL Web
An amazing combination of fire, yoga break dance and slap stick comedy.
Place Émilie-Gamelin
June 20, @ 7:30 pm
June 21, @ 7:30 pm(Cancelled due to police)
Recomended 5$ donation
Pyrometheus on FB!
L’Escalier
June 17, 5pm
June 22, 5pm
June 24, 5pm
PWYC
Website
Rebecca Anne Banks of Tea at Tympani Lane Records is a Poet/Singer/Songwriter/Musician/Writer/Artist. Watching the evening sky from her kitchen she creates mythologies in poetry, music, art and Newsletters. Her latest poetry projects include: The Book of Blue, The Grif and Other Conversations, The Gift of the Midnight Sun and Watching Snow Falling. At home in Montreal.
Concordia Co-Op Bookstore
June 19, time TBA
FREE-PWYC
Tympani Lane Records
Beautiful solo rendition of songs in the folk rock style. some covers(Dylan, Cohen etc) and some fine originals as well.
Barfly
June 21, 9pm
PWYC
videoartsmontreal.ca
Sorry, description unavailable in English.
Artiste Australien désireux de fouler les planches de notre belle province. Sam West livre à son public un son festif et ensoleillé, ou se mêle le blues, le rock, le pop et le groove. L’artiste décrit sa musique, comme du funk à nos oreilles. Il sera en ville tout l’été, ne ratez surtout pas la chance de le voir à L’Escalier.
L’Escalier
June 19, 8pm
PWYC
TripleJuneArtHed
Sam West Music
YouTube
I paint because it lets me simply be. In this state of being, I have the freedom to let my intuition roam into the painting’s territory. Because being the painter of my chosen surface does not grant me sole conviction or authority over its fate. I can’t ever plan a painting into being, because to me, painting is, by being a form of pure expression, defined by the very search for it that makes up the process of painting. This process involves a dialogue between the progressive build up of paint marks as they meet the surface of the painting, and how the surface responds to these marks. The surface proposes what should come next and I negotiate with it until a painting is created.
The combination of color, texture and movement make up the identity of my paintings. What they emote comes from my intuition, so the energy is raw, complex and baroque. My paintings evoke drama, and it’s inevitable, since it comes from the most unhindered, ungovernable place inside of me. I see humanity as mysterious, wavering, unpredictable and beautiful, and I suppose that is ultimately what I want to share with my paintings.
Barfly
June 21, 5-7
PWYC
Obsessed4Life Blog
L’Escalier
June 18, 9pm
PWYC
Website
Sunshine is back to their favorite city to perform in their favorite festival for a 3rd year. This indie and blues trio’s members come from both Brooklyn NY and Montreal. Featuring Brooklyn’s Amy Santos on vocals and bass and Steve Ferrara on vocals and guitar as well as Montreal’s own Joe McLean on drums. Performance will be DINEOMITE!!!
Barfly
June 16, 9pm
PWYC
www.sunshinenights.com
L’Escalier
June 15, 5pm
PWYC
Website
Sorry, description unavailable in English.
L’USINE 106U est une galerie d’art autogérée spécialisée dans la figuration hors-normes. Présentant chaque mois des expositions collectives d’une trentaine d’artistes, son mandat est d’abolir les barrières entre les artistes et le public, qu’elles soient hiérarchiques, intellectuelles ou monétaires.
June 21, 5-8pm
160 Roy Street
PWYC
Mellow and groovy electro-acoustic indie-pop with a jazz education and an alt-rock attitude. Framed by Trevor’s curious personality, spiritual upbringing on Vancouver Island and particular literary bent.
Barfly
June 22, 9pm
$5
After nearly a decade of not really waiting, the reunion nobody asked for is finally here! If you see one hard pop rock band with songs about getting sick at Burger King and Surrey BC, make it this one!
Barfly
June 16, 9pm
PWYC
