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POP Montreal 2024 Will Pay Tribute to Lhasa de Sela with Feist, Calexico, Helena Deland and Klô Pelgag

The festival has also just revealed the first lineup announcement for its 2024 edition, which includes Stars, The Dears, Beverly Glenn-Copeland and more.

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POP Montreal will celebrate Lhasa de Sela almost 15 years after her death.

The 2024 edition of the alternative music and arts festival, taking place September 25-29, is set to feature a unique tribute concert to the influential folk artist, who died in 2010. La Route Chante: Hommage à Lhasa will take place at the Rialto Theatre in Mile End, the neighbourhood where the artist felt at home, closing the festival on September 29. Her friends and collaborators, as well as a new generation of musicians who were influenced by the musician, will perform her songs on stage.


Under the musical direction of Joe Grass, Feist, Calexico, Juana Molina, Silvana Estrada, Klô Pelgag, Myriam Gendron, Bibi Club, Helena Deland, La Force, The Barr Brothers, Laurence Anne, Yves Desrosiers, Samantha de la Vega and the Stone Bonnet Choir will rock the Rialto with their interpretations of Lhasa de Sela's recordings.

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At the same time, a posthumous album with Yves Desrosiers, First Recordings, will be released on September 27. The first single, "El Cosechero," is set for release on June 5.

Beyond the tribute event, the 23rd edition of POP Montréal will feature international performers like American artists Iris DeMent and Mannie Fresh and the French group Edith Nylon, as well as 2000s Montreal indie rock favourites Stars and The Dears.

Other highlights from the first lineup announcement include Beverly Glenn-Copeland, SAM.IITO, Alix Fernz, Emilie Kahn, Mimi O'bonsawin, Unessential Oils, Erika Angell, Afternoon Bike Ride, Fernie, Homeshake, Los Bitchos and Kroy.

More details here.

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Tim Leiweke speaks at the ceremonial ribbon cutting prior to tomorrow's opening night for the NHL's newest hockey franchise the Seattle Kraken at the Climate Pledge Arena on October 22, 2021 in Seattle, Washington.
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Tim Leiweke speaks at the ceremonial ribbon cutting prior to tomorrow's opening night for the NHL's newest hockey franchise the Seattle Kraken at the Climate Pledge Arena on October 22, 2021 in Seattle, Washington.

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Ex-Oak View Group CEO Tim Leiweke Surrenders in Bid-Rigging Case, Pleads Not Guilty

Leiweke was allowed to turn himself in rather than face arrest. He was released on a $1 million bond.

Tim Leiweke, the live entertainment mogul and former CEO of Oak View Group (OVG), has pled not guilty to rigging bids for the construction of Austin’s Moody Center Arena after self-surrendering in the criminal antitrust case.

Prosecutors allowed Leiweke to turn himself in on Monday (July 21) rather than face arrest for this month’s indictment, which accuses him of conspiring with the former chief executive of Legends Hospitality to rig the bidding for OVG’s construction and management of the $338 million, 19,000-seat Moody Center in 2017.

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