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Assessment of 2005 Francophone Coup de Coeur in Montreal

18 November 2005
At the moment when the curtain falls on the 19th edition of Francophone Coup de Coeur in Montreal, no doubt that per hour of the assessments we can say that the song gained a quite beautiful victory there. Because it is it which in fate large gaining.

A victory of team which confirms the single place and the role that occupies the Francophone Coup de Coeur compared to the diffusion of the song on the local, national and international scene. Our role consists in inventing appointments. They are the talent and the audacity of the artists, the fidelity and the curiosity of spectators, the support and the support of the financial partners as well as the complicity and the engagement of the diffusers which made a success of them. Thank you with all.

This 19th edition proved to be a success as well in artistic terms, if one judges of it the reaction of the public and the media cover, as in terms of frequentation who increased approximately 10 % compared to last year.

One speaks more and more about "the effect of Francophone Coup de Coeur". The effect of Francophone Coup de Coeur, it is inter alia this way well with us of sharing the pleasure of the song and of making discover the artists from here and besides who carry it high and strong. The Blow effect of c?ur, it is also a space of freedom put at the service of artists to the percussion talents and a public attentive, curious and opened with the discovery. The effect of Francophone Coup de Coeur, it is also the song which travels via the Network pancanadien, via the Stopovers Blow of c?ur in Quebec as well as the reception this year of more than one about thirty foreign diffusers come to locate artists from here in order to programming them on the French, Belgian, Swiss scenes.

A major edition strewn with moments to mark of a white stone. Among them let us mention the awaited spectacle of CharlÉlie Couture, moving it Petit lost ball, the greeted re-entry of Karkwa and Monica Freire, the attack with four of Dales Hawerchuck, the meeting between Anis and Thomas Hellman, the base and the poetry of Anaïs and Nicolas Jules as well as the fabulous appointment with Richard Bohringer whose images of the spectacle presented in event closure will make recipient of its film It is beautiful a city the night.

In the chapter of expensive creations to the Francophone Coup de Coeur, one cannot overlook the improbable meeting and magnificiently successful between the group Loco Locass and the contemporary Consort of Quebec like that between Michel Faubert and Breton Yann-Fañch Kemener.

Within the framework of this 19th edition took place the handing-over of the Price Stars Galaxy of Radio-Canada with Tricia Foster, of Ontario.

Hinged plate of a Network radiating this year in 19 Canadian cities and extending on six time zones, Francophone Coup de Coeur continues until the end November, of the magnetic Coast at the coast of the Pacific. Let us recall that about thirty artists take part in the Francophone Coup de Coeur of which Vincent Vallières and Damien Robitaille.

Francophone Coup de Coeur makes a point of sincerely thanking all its partners and sleeping partners whose indéfectible support was with the heart success of this 19th edition.

On the way now for the 20th birthday.

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