{"id":2186,"date":"2022-07-06T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fmeat.org\/?p=2186"},"modified":"2022-07-15T13:31:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T17:31:49","slug":"fme-celebrates-its-20th-anniversary-and-unveils-its-complete-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fmeat.org\/en\/news\/fme-celebrates-its-20th-anniversary-and-unveils-its-complete-programming\/","title":{"rendered":"FME CELEBRATES ITS 20TH ANNIVERSARY AND UNVEILS ITS COMPLETE PROGRAMMING!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Festival de Musique \u00c9mergentes de Rouyn-Noranda<\/strong> and SiriusXM, its official announcer, invite you to blow the candles on 20 years of concerts featuring the very best new music as well as renowned musical acts from here and abroad, celebrating by the same token the return after a two year\u2019s absence of its international programming. On September 1-4, 2022<\/strong>, FME strikes again with an eclectic selection of artists offering alternative, novel and singular music, also presenting many up-and-coming outfits of all genres. In all, no less than 100 performances<\/strong> are taking place in premium concert venues and other unique locations of Rouyn-Noranda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


The team recently announced the \u00c9v\u00e9nements SiriusXM concert series, taking place at Sc\u00e8ne Vid\u00e9otron, where headliners Hubert Lenoir, Animal Collective, Lisa Leblanc and Loud rub shoulders with Les Hay Babies, P\u2019tit Belliveau, Koriass, Sarahm\u00e9e, CRi, Elizabete Bal\u010dus, Rich Aucoin and Lou-Adriane Cassidy!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u201cWe are so proud to present Festival de Musique \u00c9mergente en Abitibi-T\u00e9miscamingue as the title sponsor and to have been a supporter for over ten years,\u201d said Jean-Philippe Lavoie, Manager, CCD & Industry Relations, SiriusXM Canada. \u201cShowcasing Francophone music on-air across North America and live at events is incredibly important to us, and FME provides the ultimate platform for this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


This year, Sc\u00e8ne Vid\u00e9otron<\/strong> is newly located on Murdoch Avenue at the corner of 8th Street. The festival will continue to take over numerous festive venues and locations, namely: Guinguette chez Edmund, Petit Th\u00e9\u00e2tre du Vieux Noranda, Sous-sol du Petit Th\u00e9\u00e2tre du Vieux Noranda, Cabaret de la Derni\u00e8re Chance, Diable Rond, Paramount, Club de Curling <\/strong>a.k.a. Le Hub Desjardins, and Garage Rheault<\/strong>; which last year hosted visionary artist Backxwash in extremis, the team at FME being forced to improvise and move their performance due to Mother Nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Guinguette chez Edmund and Petit Th\u00e9\u00e2tre du Vieux Noranda are home to a plethora of artists
looking to promote style, musicality and originality!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n


Neo-soul\/R&B provider and new Bonsound signee, Magi Merlin<\/strong>, is the first artist to perform at la Guinguette chez Edmund<\/strong> a.k.a. the Fonderie Horne Stage. She sets the tone for Connaisseur Ticaso<\/strong>, the latest Album rap de l\u2019ann\u00e9e-winner at l\u2019ADISQ, as well as for Naya Ali<\/strong>, a Quebeco-Ethiopian hip-hop artist whose verve is as thorny as it is groovy. Trippy armada Choses Sauvages<\/strong> are headlining on Friday night, playing the intemporal dancy songs found on their latest album: Choses Sauvages II (via Audiogram). They are joined by post-disco singer-songwriter Sheeneh Ko<\/strong>, and by Paris neo-psych outfit Brama<\/strong>. Saturday, FME first presents a family concert featuring Julie Aub\u00e9<\/strong>, soon to release a new album via Simone Records, and aerial, sparkly pop singer-songwriter Tha\u00efs<\/strong>. Later that day, attendees are treated to the anthems of Pas l\u2019temps d\u2019niaiser, a new opus by mercurial band Les H\u00f4tesses d\u2019Hilaire<\/strong>. Also playing on the shore of Osisko Lake that evening, we have Montreal minimal pop artist H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Barbier<\/strong> and Maryland psych pop ensemble Tomato Flower<\/strong>. Sunday, we turn to Alicia Clara<\/strong> who is presenting songs from her sublime Outsider \/ Unusual EP, released via Hot Tramp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


On Thursday, Sc\u00e8ne Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec (set within the confines of Petit Th\u00e9\u00e2tre du Vieux Noranda<\/strong>) puts an emphasis on culturally-diverse artists that cleverly mend alternative, noise and avant-garde with traditional music with new experimental powwow collective, Medicine Singers<\/strong> (featuring FME mainstay Yonatan Gat<\/strong> as well as Thor Harris<\/strong> and Christopher Pravdica<\/strong> of Swans), Canadian-Ukrainian protest-fueled outfit, Balaklava Blues<\/strong>, and Avalanche Kaito<\/strong>, a griot\/punk\/noise project led by Burkinabe artist Kaito Winse and Belgian musicians Benjamin Chaval and Nico Gitto. Garage rock\u2019s new posterboy, Gus Englehorn<\/strong>, is going on first on Friday, followed by Daptone-prot\u00e9g\u00e9e, Tamar Aphek<\/strong> (Tel Aviv) and her hybrid of art punk and neo-jazz, then by multidisciplinary Sub Pop artist Chad VanGaalen<\/strong>, a pioneer of Canadian psychedelia if there was ever one. On Saturday, long list nominees for the prestigious Polaris Music Prize, Les Louanges<\/strong> and Lydia K\u00e9pinski<\/strong>, catapult the content of their new albums, Crash and Depuis, respectively. Fernie <\/strong>takes on opening duties, playing a cocktail of neo-soul and R&B. Sunday presents, as is tradition, a proper dosage of metal, all at once brutal, technical and genre-bending. Decibels are the affair of American metal titans, Dying Fetus<\/strong>, celebrated for their complex riffs and mean cadences, who close the night following sets from First Fragment<\/strong> (technical metal) and Abitabyss<\/strong> (grindcore).<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Powerhouse acts, up-and-comers and international novelties take over two mythical bars of the
city!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n


First off, don\u2019t miss the grand return of Gros Men\u00e9<\/strong>, Fred Fortin<\/strong>\u2019s prog-meets-grunge project, at Cabaret de la Derni\u00e8re Chance<\/strong>, Saturday at 11:30pm sharp, and then on Sunday, a performance from legendary band Eric\u2019s Trip founder member, Julie Doiron<\/strong>, on the same bat-stage at the same bat-hour. Will also be making stops at Le Cab, a slew of artists with a knack for writing alternative gems, namely: Gustaf<\/strong> and Grim Streaker<\/strong>, making the trip from Brooklyn; in addition to MNNQNS<\/strong> (Rouen, FR) and Gloin<\/strong> (Toronto, ON). Because FME also celebrates A&R\u2019s on the lookout for very best new artists, the festival is again hosting showcases curated by French psyche-delicious \u00e9tiquette de disques montr\u00e9alaise Bonbonbon <\/strong>and trend-setting Toronto label Hand Drawn Dracula<\/strong>. The former presents delirious troubadour Larynx<\/strong> and hypnotic newcomer All\u00f4 Fant\u00f4me<\/strong>, while the latter presents Tallies<\/strong> (also signed to renowned British label Bella Union) and calorific noise pop project Fake Palms<\/strong>. For the pleasure of insatiable new music aficionados always wanting more, Sunday brings R\u00e9v\u00e9lation Radio-Canada-winner, Lysandre<\/strong>, who shares her unique soulful decoction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Diable Rond<\/strong>, a quaint, but surprisingly great sounding venue is yet another bar where to catch even more concerts, namely: Sub Pop country artist and Orville Peck accomplice, Bria<\/strong>; Ombigiizi<\/strong>, a new collaborative work between Adam Sturgeon<\/strong> (Status \/ Non-Status) and Daniel Monkman<\/strong> (Zoon); post-modern singer-songwriter Lucill; Folivora\u2019s latest roster addition, Solipsisme<\/strong>; as well as sweaty rock\u2019n\u2019roll threats, Tha Retail Simps<\/strong> and Killer Kin<\/strong>. Last, but not least, FME was able to sway legendary country artist and B movie director \u2013 who worked with rock music monuments such as Kiss, Metallica and Guns & Roses \u2013 Johnny Pilgrim<\/strong> into playing two (!) shows, the first of which is held at Diable Rond on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Off-kilter locations and special events abound for the 20th anniversary of the international festival
specializing in new music!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n


For its opening night, FME invites you to the Vid\u00e9otron Stage where awaits the festive living room pop of Bibi Club<\/strong>, a new duo combining electronica, krautrock, jazz and post-punk into fresh jams. On top of hosting a second performance by cowboy Johnny Pilgrim<\/strong>, the stage also welcomes triple F\u00e9lix-nominee, Matiu<\/strong>, known for his powerful folk heard via Musique Nomade, along with producer and multi-instrumentalist, Mitch Davis<\/strong>, whose jazz and psychedelia-drenched neo-soul was noticed by Arbutus, the label releasing The Hunt, his first solo album, on April 22nd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u201cMusic is an important pillar of our culture, which is celebrated across all of Qu\u00e9becor and Vid\u00e9otron\u2019s platforms, in all regions of Qu\u00e9bec. It is a great honor for us to support and promote, through our involvement in FME, the many artists that enliven our everyday life, that take us to new places; the very same artists who will perform for years to come on the biggest stages the province has to offer.\u201d
\u2013 Pierre Karl P\u00e9ladeau, President & Chief Executive Officer at Qu\u00e9becor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Onto the armored concrete of Garage Rheault<\/strong> lands a motley mix of artists that include: electro-pop ensemble Le Couleur<\/strong>, back from France where they supported Concorde (via Lisbon Lux); Montreal-Lyon cooperative rap mixtape project, Latitude 45<\/strong>; Montreal Afrofuturist outfit AfroTroniX<\/strong> and their deft alloy of deep house, dubstep and African rhythms; not to mention American supergroup CDSM <\/strong>(featuring ex-members of FME alumni Material Girls). Club de Curling<\/strong> also becomes the Desjardins Hub, where festival goers can catch dreamlike songs from Crease (via Constellation), the new album by avant-garde singer-songwriter Kee Avil<\/strong>, plus an audiovisual feast by Le.Mira<\/strong>, a project created by a pair hailing from Dubuisson and Malartic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Sous-sol du Petit Th\u00e9\u00e2tre and Paramount provide night owls with audacious and groovy concerts
that go late into the night!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n


For the nocturnal concert series taking place at Sous-sol du Petit Th\u00e9\u00e2tre<\/strong>, the team of curators have opted for an abundance of novel musical acts that range from electro-pop, all the way to subversive techno and post-punk, inviting Montreal projects: Pelada<\/strong>, Super Plage<\/strong>, La Fi\u00e8vre<\/strong>, SEULEMENT<\/strong> and No Waves<\/strong>; together with international artists Garg\u00e4ntua<\/strong> (Paris, FR) and aforementioned CDSM<\/strong> (Atlanta, GA), who play the first of two sets there on Saturday. Les Nuits \u00c9lectros<\/strong>, taking place at chic venue Paramount, present a superb bouquet of modern rhythms and sounds, three nights with unique amalgams of genres, starting Thursday with hyper-stylish pop from Narcisse<\/strong>, Virginie B<\/strong> and La Bronze<\/strong>. Friday, the crowd is sure to be bopping late into the night as Nouvelle Lune<\/strong>, Ixindamix<\/strong> and Nocide<\/strong> provide the beats. Finally, the saturnals promise ambitious low frequency turbulence, brought to you by Mamiilou<\/strong>, Laure <\/strong>and Sinca<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A circuit featuring stage design elements and artifacts from previous editions!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A grandiose and enchanting circuit spanning Downtown Rouyn-Noranda will be available to the public in July. Stage design elements and artifacts from previous editions of FME will be seen at the many key locations to be found along this stroll down memory lane, bringing back fond memories, while also showcasing the festival\u2019s unique evolution over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Desjardins Hub<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every edition sees FME carefully establish a central location where artists and festival goers alike can gather, also known as the Desjardins Hub. This year, with support from Desjardins, attendees can enjoy a multitude of kiosks featuring local artisans as well as CFME radio station, plus an XR garden \u2013 a space offering different immersive activities through extended reality technology \u2013 and much more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Festival passes and single tickets<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blind\u201d passes for the 20th edition of FME have been available since June 10th via the festival\u2019s website. With the complete programming now announced, pass holders have the priority to choose the concerts they wish to attend until July 13th. Single tickets will be made available at noon on July 13th. Keep an eye on our social media accounts, Facebook, Instagram and Tik Tok, for future announcements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Relations m\u00e9dia et demandes d\u2019entrevues<\/strong>
R\u00e9gional et Nord Est Ontarien | Anne-Marie Nadeau: 819-277-0764 \/ rp-region@fmeat.org
National | Sonia Cesaratto: 514-206-4886 \/ sonia@cesaratto.com
International | Danny Payne & Tom Avis \/ dannypayne@videotron.ca \/ tom@hivemindpr.com
Europe | Clara Dhilly \/ clara@kuratedby.eu<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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