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The FYI Music News Holiday Schedule

Today is the final newsletter before Christmas. We return with a mini edition on December 28 and resume our routine of Monday, Wednesday and Friday newsletters effective Jan. 3.

The FYI Music News Holiday Schedule

By FYI Staff

Today is the final newsletter before Christmas. We return with a mini edition on December 28 and resume our routine of Monday, Wednesday and Friday newsletters effective Jan. 3.

From all of us here, best wishes over the holidays and into the new year, and remember that vaping, toking, drinking and driving come with grave consequences, so best we all play it straight behind the wheel.

Happy holidays from team FYI Music News:

David Farrell

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From June 13 to 22, Montreal transformed into a vibrant capital of Francophone music. From French rapper Théodora to local rockers Corridor, this year’s acts showed that the French language, far from static, is an endless playground.

In Montréal, June rhymes with music, and Francos de Montréal are the perfect proof. Once again this year, the festival celebrated the full richness of the French language in its most lively, vibrant, and above all, varied forms. While French served as a common thread, every artist inhabited it in their own unique way – with their accent, life experience, expressions, imagery and struggles. Between urban poetry, edgy rock and hybrid Creole, Francos 2025 showed that French has never been so expansive – or popular.

What Francos 2025 proved is that the French language is no fixed monument. It’s alive, inventive, plural. It can be slammed by a poet from Saint-Denis, chanted by an afro-futurist rapper, whispered by an indie band, or hammered out in Montréal neighbourhood slang. From Congolese expressions to Québec regionalisms, from playful anglicisms to Creole nods, the French language danced in every form this year. It was « full bon »!

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