More than 10,000 people have attended concerts at the Agora Port de Quebc since July 18. The new program seems to please lovers of classical music as well as lyrical…
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Summer Notes activities and events August 4, 2010
Prepared And Compiled By Shirley Nadeau August 4 to 8: Les Fêtes de la Nouvelle-France – Discover the History of New France. A four-day festival which starts with an Opening…
Festival jazzes up Lévis next weekend
The festival scene moves south across the river next weekend with the fourth edition of the Festival du Jazz Etcetera Lévis. The event will take place on several stages in…
Cartier-Brébeuf National Historic Site of Canada: A Garden Through Three Ages
Iroquoians who pre-dated the arrival of Jacques Cartier grew their crops, among them tobacco and corn, in circles.”It was always in a circle,” said Jacinthe Coté, co-ordinator at Parc Cartier-Brébeuf…
Great Water Pistol Battle on the Plains of Abraham
This past Sunday afternoon, for the second year in a row, a local radio station put out the call to stage a Water Pistol Battle on the playing field in…
Second Annual Free Jazz Concert
The Jeffery Hale Friends’ Foundation invites you to our second annual free Jazz Concert, Sunday, August 22, 2010, 2:00 – 3:30 on the Jeffery Hale Terrace (behind the hospital) featuring…
Festibière heads downtown in August
Alex Caron has been trying for several years to stage a festival featuring micro-brewed beer in the city, but with all the celebrations – the 400th anniversary in 2008, the…
Festival d’Été de Québec bigger than ever in 2010
Place d’Youville was jumping Sunday afternoon to a blend of blues, funk, traditional New Orleans Jazz and Motown, courtesy of Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue, a unique New Orleans based…
A tribute to wildlife artists
Animals have always fascinated humans and as far as we can go in time, men have made images of animals. Of course, when the prehistoric men were making such images…
Summer Notes activities and events July 14, 2010
Don’t know what to do on these hot, muggy days when you want to get out of the house but can’t stand the heat? How about going to a nice,…