Montreal Makes Music This Summer!

Montreal is making music this summer, so if you live in Quebec or plan to travel to Montreal this summer, you will have plenty of opportunities to enjoy a variety of cool summer sounds in this magnificent French-Canadian metropolis!    

If classic rock is your thing, you’ll want to catch the Rolling Stones concert in Montreal June 9, 2013.  Children of the 70s will find Fleetwood Mac fantastic as ever June 19, 2013, while Kiss fans can flashback to this fabulous foursome July 29, 2013.  Perhaps, you prefer pop – if so, you can hear New Kids on the Block and Boys II Men (the kids aren’t boys anymore, but they still sound great!) and 98 Degrees on June 6, 2013; One Direction on July 4, 2013; and Selena Gomez August 23, 2013.  Two top female vocalists who will be performing in Montreal this summer are Ke$ha (June 4, 2013) and Beyoncé (July 22, 2013).  Musicians hitting the stage at the Folk Festival on the Canal (June 12-16, 2013) include Roger McGuinn and Tim O’Brien. Seeking to just chill to the smooth sounds of jazz this summer?  Then the place to be is at the annual Montreal Jazz Festival (held June 28-July 7, 2013) where Leslie Feist, Wynton Marsalis and Boz Skaggs will be among the amazing artists.  If you are still in town after the jazz festival, you can attend the International Nuits d’Afrique Festival occurring July 9-21, 2013.  These are just some of the many performers and bands that you could enjoy if in Montreal this summer!

Montreal is one of Canada’s premier cities and annually attracts millions of tourists and businesspeople, plus thousands of foreign nationals who immigrate to Canada.  The French-Canadian flavor found in Quebec’s largest city (population 3,824,221) gives Montreal a unique multicultural flair which is complemented by its increasingly cosmopolitan character created through sustained Canadian immigration.  Just in 2012, there were 55,258 foreign nationals approved to immigrate to Canada who settled in the province of Quebec and many of them moved to Montreal.  In fact, recent data from Statistics Canada shows the impact of Canadian immigration on this diverse city, revealing that approximately 846,600 of Montreal’s 3,824,221 residents are foreign-born. 

The multiculturalism of Montreal makes this magnificent metropolis an interesting place to visit or live as a resident.  Thus, if you travel to Montreal this summer, you will also have the chance to not only sample the stimulating sounds of a range top musicians, but to have a taste of the foreign flavor found across this cosmopolitan Canadian city in its many ethnic neighborhoods and restaurants!  Like many people who spend time in Montreal, you may even decide that you want to enjoy the city’s high standard of living all the time and apply to immigrate to Canada. 

Written by: Canadian Visa Expert that offers visas and immigration services to Canada.