Strange Froots EP Launch Party #btfft

As part of our artist residency program set up with the generosity of the CFRC, we invite you to an amazing night as Strange Froots, our hip-hop group in residence, launches their EP!

Dans le cadre de notre programme de residence d'artistes mise en place avec la generosity du CRFC, nous vous invitons au glorieux lancement d'EP de Strange Froots, notre group hip-hop en résidence!

Opening acts:
C'nee Starlette and Aralune

With special guests:
Malika Tirolien, Tshizimba, Mello, and Lucas Charlie Rose


Today @ 6pm: The Commonwealth Conundrum interviews MOK

Tune into The Commonwealth Conundrum today at 6pm to hear Danny and Rebecca intervew Mok. Mok is a rap, new wave group from Brighton, England. They'll be promoting their newest single, Call Carlton and will be performing at the Blissfields Festival and Paddle Round the Pier in July!


Soirée HEAVY Montreal Night - Metal Trivia Edition preview: WEDNESDAY @ 11AM

HEAVY MTL AND CJLO PRESENT: Heavy MTL Trivia!! Come on down and enjoy a special night of Metal Trivia for the chance to win festival tickets to Heavy Montreal, courtesy of Evenko! Teams will in be competing in groups of four! If you don't have a team but would like to participate, don't worry because Piranha Bar's got you covered! The party is at 7pm this Wednesday, June 22nd! Your favourite CJLO metal DJs will be playing some funky metal tunes all night long.


NXNE 2016 RECAP >> SEAGULLS!

Father Stretch My Hands Pts 3-6: My NXNE 2016 Experience

Every year, for every city-wide festival, anywhere in the world, there is a chorus of people shouting the same thing. "It's just not the SAME this year." "It's not as good as last year." Or "[Insert event] sucks this year." Or most succinctly, "Wah!"


Port Lands Skyline/Seagull


CJLO #FRINGEBUZZ DIARY 2016: A RECAP, THE FRANKIES, AND GRATITUDE!

Year after year, one of the most fascinating things that I love about the Montreal Fringe Festival is that you will never know what you will bump into, you will never know what you will discover, and you will never know what happen until you go out there and dive yourself into the excitement.

It gets crazier by the moment, and zanier by the second. And just like life itself, spontaneity is what makes this festival so exciting - whether you're a playwright, performer, or a random spectator. This is the magic of the Fringe happening, and needless to say, it goes beyond words in describing it.

Okay maybe euphoria. But that's just one of many.


FRINGE 2016: Science, Love and Revolution

Through a mixture of spoken word poetry, dialects, saxophone solos, animal grunts, and an instrumental backing track, Science, Love and Revolution was most certainly a memorable performance.

Before the event began, David Lee Morgan chit-chatted with the audience for a fair amount of time, making soft self-deprecating comments and repeating the same question to the crowd multiple times just in case someone was hesitant to speak up, or had gestured to speak but he couldn’t quite see. All this to say, from the very start he was charming as hell.


FRINGE 2016: A Thousand Kindnesses

To say that Rachel Jury’s A Thousand Kindnesses is ambitious, would be an understatement. In this one woman show, the performer weaves first-hand experience of asylum seekers, and refugees from war-ravaged nations of the past 30 years, from the Sudanese civil war to the ongoing Syrian conflict.


FRINGE 2016: Empty Rooms

Empty Rooms drags the audience through the pain, guilt, and crippling despair one experiences after the loss of a loved one. Daring to say the things one often brushes over, this play held no punches.


Pokemon Sun and Moon: A Journey into the Seventh Generation

CJLO's Lazy Sunday Series

Earlier this year, Pokémon released the English titles for the newest version of the series: Sun and Moon. Needless to say, fans went crazy. Speculations and theories about what wonders awaited players in the new titles shot up in every corner of the Internet. From concept art of possible new starters, to ideas for new types, to hopes that the map would include the ability to travel to previous regions. Whether or not some of these speculations are true is yet to be seen, but Pokémon has been dropping teasers for the release of the game coming this November.


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