Photo above: Solotech deployed L-Acoustics systems for three of evenko’s festivals this August: OSHEAGA, LASSO Montréal, and îLESONIQ, pictured here (pc: Pat Beaudry)
Each August, Montréal’s picturesque Parc Jean-Drapeau, which spans two islands on the St. Lawrence River, draws a sea of spectators to three of the city’s biggest music festivals, all produced and promoted by evenko.
This year, the 16th-annual OSHEAGA Music and Arts Festival (Aug 4-6) broke a record for attendance with a weekend crowd of 155,000 who came to see and hear artists like Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar, and Rüfüs Du Sol. The ninth-annual îLESONIQ (Aug 12-13), Canada’s largest electronic dance and urban contemporary festival, surpassed that number, drawing 65,000 over just two days, while a week later, the second-annual LASSO Montréal (Aug 18-19), headlined by country music stars Chris Stapleton and Kane Brown, doubled attendance to 50,000 over its inaugural year. Although the genres for these three weekends...
