World’s largest jazz festival in Montreal cancelled due to pandemic

Music pageant Photograph: VCG

This 12 months’s Montreal Jazz Pageant, the world’s largest, and different common summer time jamborees in Canada’s francophone metropolis had been cancelled Friday because of the COVID-19 pandemic, organizers introduced.

It had been scheduled to begin on June 25.

“This determination, which was made with our non-public companions and the federal government, was not a straightforward one, but it surely had turn out to be obligatory with a purpose to shield the general public, the artists and our workers,” the Jazz Pageant’s normal supervisor Jacques Primeau introduced in a press release.

The Francos de Montreal music pageant, which is placed on by the identical group and was scheduled for June 12, was additionally cancelled, he mentioned.

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The pair of summer time festivals entice a whole lot of hundreds of holiday makers annually to Canada’s second-largest metropolis.

Organizers of the massively common Only for Laughs Pageant, normally held in late July, additionally introduced Friday that they had been suspending the comedic performances till the autumn.

And a biking occasion, the Tour de l’ile, scheduled for June 7, was cancelled.