I'm sure if you live anywhere near the city, you've heard of this but if not here it is.
http://casadelpopolo.com/suoni/about.htm
The Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival (Sounds for the People Festival) presents Liberation music to audiences in Montréal, Québec, Canada. Liberation music is inspired by freedom of expression, improvisation, and sonic exploration and appeals to music aficionados world wide. Liberation music is comprised of an eclectic collection of genres which includes but is not limited to free jazz, noise, electronica, turntable art, soundscapes, experimental rock, electronica, musique actuelle and spoken word. Given the context in which much of this music is made and the reaction it provokes, it is also music that resonates with progressive social movements. The festival presents both established musicians who bring a wealth of tradition, experience and history to their playing as well as younger, emerging artists.
This fest lasts the entire month of june with 2 shows going on every night .
this year's line-up is SICK.
so far there is :
Fire into Music
Wharton Tiers Ensemble
The Flying Luttenbachers
Residual Echoes
Free Music Ensemble
Pink Mountaintops
Tetuzi Akiyama
Vandermark Trio
Sam Ahalabi
The Thing
Bardo Pond
Feu Therese
Black Heart Procession
Excepter
Trio x
Sun Ra's Arkestra
Dungen
Jack Rose
AIDS wolf
Joe McPhee
Charlemagne Palestine
usaisamonster
dj Mutamassik
Dragons 1976
Josephine Foster
Pengo
Crank Sturgeon
Mouthus
Matt Brinkmann
Gasric Female Reflex
Awesome
I Have Eaten The City
Rene Lussier's Prix du Bonheur
Trio Derome/Guilbault/Tanguay
Lori Feedman
Marianne Trudel
Black Ox Orkestar
Diane Cluck
White Flower
Plastic Crimewave Sound
Torngat
Drumheller
Diebold
Lullabye Orkestra
Follow Follow
Thames
Sam Shalabi's Land of Kush
The Creeping Nobodies
++++++++++++ many more tba