Brèche de minuit
Musical offerings and winter solstice celebration
21-12-24 doors 8:00PM
Hraïr Hratchian
Lou Val
Marie-Pierre Arthur
Pako
Stone Bonnet Choir
On Saturday, December 21st, Brèches invites you to an evening of celebration and music in the unique atmosphere of the Chapelle de la Cité-des-Hospitalières. A moment of gentleness, beauty, and vibrancy to mark the winter solstice, come together, and unwind.
The program features musical offerings by Hraïr Hratchian, Lou Val, Marie-Pierre Arthur, Pako, Stone Bonnet Choir. This original format gracefully, diversely, and poetically reimagines the art of celebrating together. In the style of Brèches, this evening combines different creative approaches that shift our bearing.
Admission is free
209 Avenue des Pins West
Doors open at 8 PM
A surprising, sparkling, and luminous moment to celebrate connection and creativity together.
Direction: Myriam Sophie Deslauriers
Lighting Design: Julie Basse
Sound Design: Jérôme Hébert
Why this event ?
Reclaiming celebrations and traditions, creating a space to be together, to reflect, and to celebrate the beauty of life as well as our connection to everything that surrounds us.
The winter solstice marks the return of the light. What could be more precious to celebrate?
Naïri, La lamentation de la mère de Vartan
Hraïr Hratchian
Since 1995, Hraïr Hratchian has been developing an interdisciplinary practice that weaves together music, performance art, and experimental cinema. As a duduk player — the duduk being a traditional Armenian woodwind instrument — he collaborates with a range of artists and groups, including Einstürzende Neubauten, Esmerine, Beyries, and Éric Létourneau.
Since 2014, he has been creating experimental films and performing on stage in Canada, the United States, and abroad.
Lou Val
Originally from Kano State, Nigeria, and now based in both Toronto and Montréal, the singer-songwriter has embodied the delicacy of art since his debut in the music world in 2017.
Shaping sounds that blur the boundaries between indie, R&B, and alternative music, Lou Val creates a discography driven by passion and fueled by his constant desire to push his artistic limits. He offers the world his sonic perspective on life, translated into a beautiful lullaby of emotions and sensations.
Driven by a thirst for life and understanding, Lou Val follows an artistic path without barriers — through a discography that becomes both a melodic refuge and an embrace.
Marie-Pierre Arthur
Fifteen years after the start of her solo career, Marie-Pierre Arthur is offering herself the gift of meticulousness with Album bleu, set to be released in fall 2024. The singer-songwriter’s fifth album was born from the time she devoted to funneling all her ideas down to their most intense essence, crafted with great finesse.
Pako
Pako is a singer-songwriter from the Atikamekw community of Manawan (Lanaudière region, Québec). Supported by a solid and masterful folk-rock sound, Pako performs the lyrics he writes in his native language, Atikamekw. His songs address powerful themes such as the importance of language, the values and history of his community, identity, the environment, human relationships, and the hope for a better life.
Pako has performed in numerous prestigious concerts and festivals in Québec, Switzerland, and Australia. A talented guitarist, he also collaborates with many renowned artists, including Maten, Ninan, Shauit, Claude McKenzie, Florent Vollant, and Scott-Pien Picard, to name just a few.
Isabelle Stachtchenko
Stone Bonnet Choir
Le Stone Bonnet Choir is a polyphonic ensemble exploring early vocal music and Canadian traditional songs, in French and in English. The group’s musical approach is as distinctive as it is accessible, showcasing the melodies and texts of carefully chosen material, compiled from rare songbooks and remembered personal histories.
The ensemble’s repertoire includes a selection of rounds and canons from the oral tradition (Musing, Ô bruit doux), Canadian traditional songs (Là-bas sur cette montagne, Ceux qui s’aiment, Do You See That There Bird) and Renaissance pieces (Quant de vous seul [Ockeghem], Come Again [Dowland]).
Eugénie Jobin, Frédérique Roy, Robin Love, Camille Deléan, Adèle Trottier-Rivard, Helena Deland
François Blouin
Au cours des dernières années, France Bernard a notamment rendu hommage, en chansons, au poète québécois Gilbert Langevin, avec l’album et le spectacle Le choix des armes.
Plus récemment elle sort l’album L’Orée (2023) où elle signe paroles et musiques originales. Francis Covan aux arrangements. William Le GalleeMan au mixage et Waguih Koury pour 3 textes. Une pop poésie, une musique vibrante, une cadence au parfum boisé !