Montreal Cultural Calendar

Copresented with LOL (Lots of Love) Festival
June 20 (June 21 in case of rain) Mile End.
Meeting Point and time upcoming, keep your eyes peeled here!
Conjuring FM: Feminist Migrant Frequencies
This radio walk occupies an open frequency on the FM spectrum to create a collective listening experience that weaves together the voices, memories, and experiences of a migrant feminist collective in Montreal. Through sound, the project explores migration as a process of resilience, adaptation, and the search for new ways of coexisting within urban space.
Throughout the walk, participants will tune into an FM transmission featuring personal stories, reflections, and sonic conjurations from members of Colectiva Tribu and activist Tania Gómez. Their voices form the narrative thread of the experience, guiding the audience through stories of migration, care, resistance, and belonging.
The walk takes place within Les Champs des Possibles, a wild ecosystem that persists in the heart of Mile End and serves as a living symbol of ecological resilience within the city. This territory is not merely a setting, but an active interlocutor: its vegetation, sounds, and history enter into dialogue with the participants’ narratives. Throughout the journey, echoes of their voices and conjurations will resonate across the landscape, creating a relationship between migrant memory and territorial resistance.
Broadcast through FM waves, this walk proposes an intimate, collective, and political form of listening that connects migrant experiences with urban ecosystems that are also struggling to endure.
The walk will take place in Spanish, English, and French.
Conjuro FM: Frecuencias Feministas Migrantes
Esta caminata radial interviene en una frecuencia libre del espectro FM para crear una experiencia de escucha colectiva que entrelaza las voces, memorias y experiencias de una colectividad feminista migrante en la ciudad de Montreal. A través del sonido, el proyecto explora la migración como un proceso de resiliencia, adaptación y búsqueda de nuevas formas de coexistencia en el espacio urbano.
Durante el recorrido, las personas participantes sintonizarán una transmisión FM en la que se escucharán los relatos personales, reflexiones y conjuros sonoros de les integrantes de
Colectiva Tribu
y de la activista Tania Gómez. Sus voces construirán el eje narrativo de la caminata, guiando al público a través de experiencias de migración, cuidado, resistencia y pertenencia.
La caminata se desarrolla en Les Champs des Possibles, un ecosistema silvestre que persiste en medio de Mile End y funciona como un símbolo vivo de resiliencia ecológica en la ciudad. Este territorio no actúa únicamente como escenario, sino también como interlocutor activo: su vegetación, sus sonidos y su historia dialogan con las narrativas de las participantes. A lo largo del recorrido, los ecos de sus voces y conjuros resonarán en el paisaje, creando una relación entre la memoria migrante y la resistencia territorial.
Transmitida a través de ondas FM, esta caminata propone una escucha íntima, colectiva y política que conecta las experiencias de migración con los ecosistemas urbanos que también luchan por persistir.
Amanda Gutiérrez
examines the intersection of political listening and gender studies through the lens of soundwalking and radio practices. Gutiérrez holds a Ph.D. in the Arts and Humanities (HUMA) at Concordia University. Her artistic experience has been showcased internationally through art residencies at FACT in Liverpool, UK; ZKM in Germany; TAV in Taiwan; and the Bolit Art Center in Spain. Additionally, her sound artwork has been exhibited at various international venues, including The Liverpool Biennale in 2012, Harvestworks in NYC, SBC Gallery, Undefined Radio in Montreal, Errant Bodies Studio Press in Berlin, POP Montreal, the City of Women Festival, and the To)POT Festival in Ljubljana, as well as the ENSEMS Music Festival in Valencia, Sur Aural in Bolivia, and the Tsonami Sound Festival in Chile.

Free - All day - Multiple spots around Mile-End and the Plateau - Schedule is upcoming, keep your eyes posted here!
Performances in public spaces (on 21 June in case of rain)
Amanda Gutiérrez with Brujas Collective + ambre j. + Laura Jeffery + anana anonyme + Emma-Kate Guimond + Esteban Donoso and Peng Hsu + Florencia Sosa Rey + Kìzis + Lilia Mestre and Marcos Simões + Louise Michel Jackson with Lara Oundjian + Mithra “Myth” Rabel with Chanda T. Holmes + Santiago Lopez Alzate
The Lots of Love (LOL) Festival is an outdoor contemporary performance event rooted in a DIY, anti-institutional ethos. Created as a community-driven alternative to large festivals, it has been curated since 2021 by Sasha Kleinplatz, Liliane Moussa, Emile Pineault, and Sarah Williams. The festival features a series of performances in unconventional spaces such as backyards, garages, parks, or basketball courts. It brings together artists from diverse backgrounds and generations. Its curatorial approach emphasizes relinquishing control, fostering radical trust, and amplifying community voices, creating an inclusive and collaborative environment that prioritizes experimentation and accessibility. Suoni is excited to partner with LOL this year!
OFFICIAL SCHEDULE:

REAPER for Noise Artists
A workshop led by noise artist
Anju Singh
(The Nausea, Deliriant Fracture) to get artists working with noise, experimental music, and sound art sound sources to produce with REAPER to better record and document their sounds. REAPER is an affordable yet powerful software.
In this 90-minute workshop, participants will:
- set up your interface
- record 2-3 sounds
- mix to form a 60 second track
- export the track
- learn how to configure for multi-channel output
The workshop moves fast, so to get the most out of the workshop, please arrive on time and prepared with:
- laptop with REAPER already installed and ready to go (you can use the free 60-day trial for this session)
- interface for your computer (if you have one)
- headphones
Pre-registration is required.
If you don't have or can't bring a laptop to the session, no problem - you'll just pair with another participant with a laptop.
No filming, photos, or audio recording of the session please.

Students from the studio of
Dina Cindrić
present their end-of-year piano and voice recital, performing classical, jazz, and folk repertoire.

Co-presented with
NOW society
and
Jahsun
BLK D'OR
, an exploration of free black expression that seeks new sounds, harmony, dissonance & authentic cultural exchanges. Curated by none other than Kalmunity initiator
Jahsun
, the evening will feature a series of spectacular combos that will have us travelling. This intimate session blends freeform cosmic soul, jazz, and wordsmiths with special Suoni guests rounding out the experience. Get a load of this:
Part of the Un Echange: Trading Places: Trueque tri-city residency
Soulsonic bath:
Sam I Am Montolla
(MTL)
Star Dust:
Fred Bazil
(sax) (MTL)
Jahsun
(drums) (MTL)
Constellation 1:
Adrian Avendaño
(drums) (VAN)
Markus Floats (
bass) (MTL)
Fahmid Nibesh
(guitar) (MTL)
Skin Tone
(saxophone / mbira) (MTL)
Aleida Perez
(violin) (CDMX)
Jason Selman
(cornet / poetry) (MTL)
The Opening:
D-na
(poetry) (MTL)
Christelle Saint Julien
(harp) (MTL)
Constellation 2:
Anju Singh
(violin) (VAN)
Julie Richard
(tuba) (MTL)
Aaron Leaney
(saxophone) (MTL)
Ravish Momin
(drums) (MTL)
Stella Adjokê
(poetry) (MTL)
Twilight:
Zibz Blackurrent
(dubpoetry) (MTL)
Zach Frampton
(piano) (MTL)
Constellation 3:
Engone Endong
(sound design) (MTL)
Zach Frampton
(piano/keys) (MTL)
Cabral Jacobs
(saxophone) (MTL)
Jahsun
(drums) (MTL)
Tanya Tawhida Evanson
(poetry) (MTL)

After last year’s megawatt showcase,
Watch That Ends The Night
records are back for round 2 with a lineup of artists with new releases. It promises to be a doozy. We’ve got post-classical/prog-metal composer
Emmanuel Jacob Lacopo
with his classical guitar & live electronics setup. We’ve got the choral pop/math punk frenzy of
pinksnail
, exuding expressions of fast-food/sex-sads, and a “greatfulness” to be alive. Then there’s experimental pop siren
aniqa dear
whose synth-infused textures and polyrhythms craft danceable music interlaced with stark vulnerability.
Cloud Circuit
is poet Deanna Radford & sound artist Jeremy Young. Live, they blend iterative text, sine waves, 1/4" magnetic tape, and radio transmission, composing, dissecting, and refracting all the while. Rounding out the night are longtime collaborators
Michael Cloud Duguay & Andrew Mackelvie
, both contemporary creative musicians and co-creative directors of the co-hosting label; their performance at Suoni will, somehow, be their first time performing as a duo.
Emmanuel Jacob Lacopo
is a post-classical guitarist and composer exploring what the guitar can become in the 21st century. His work blends classical guitar with live electronics, progressive metal, improvised music, and post-rock, creating immersive sound worlds that move fluidly across genres. Recognized as one of CBC’s 2023 “30 Under 30 Classical Musicians,” Lacopo often performs with multi-instrument setups and real-time electronic processing, approaching the guitar as a modular and expandable instrument. His 2023 album Eastman (People Places Records) reimagines the music of Julius Eastman for guitar and electronics and was named a CBC “must-hear” recording. His upcoming album, Dreamscapes and Our Modern Contradictions (Watch That Ends the Night Records), will be his first full release of original music.
pinksnail
is a funeral with birthday cake. An ode to birth death as choral punk frenzy. Perfectly accessible Singsongs ruined by downtuned acoustic guitar, bombastic math metal drumming and a choir in 3 part harmony; spewing hooks about grief, sex-sads, fast-food and a gratefulness to be alive. Between the syncopated riff raff and dissonant harmonic moves, the closest comparison is either Converge subbing as Fionna Apple's backing band, or Meshuggah cosplaying as Bare Naked Ladies for their Halloween bands as bands. A hodgepodge of Pop Song form, Heavy Drum breaks, Creamy Choral chords and Mathed out riffs you might as well toss out yr calculator to fully enjoy; pinksnail is the Chorale Pop/Math Punk mashup no one asked for, but if you chug yr triple triple from timmies fast enough, you might actually appreciate the effort.
aniqa dear
is a Toronto-based experimental art pop project rooted in queerness, diasporic identity, grief, and the eternal interplay between belonging and isolation. aniqa dear weaves her intricate melodic sensibilities with ever-shifting synth-infused textures and polyrhythms, resulting in danceable music interlaced with stark vulnerability. She is currently crafting her second, intimate, genre-bending full-length album, to be released in early 2027. She asks intently if you have ever danced into your own abyss, and she invites you in.
Poetry-sound project
Cloud Circuit
draws inspiration from communication glitches and lost connections. Poet Deanna Radford channels her iterative text reams into deconstructed “words of mouth,” while sound artist Jeremy Young employs sine waves in flux, 1/4" magnetic tape, and captured radio airs. In performance, Cloud Circuit’s approach is collaborative and improvisational, with their sound being composed, dissected, and refracted. The duo has shared the stage with artists including Phew, Sam Prekop, Lea Bertucci, David Grubbs, Vito Ricci, Ora Clementi (crys cole & James Rushford), Jessica Pavone, skintone, Alex Zhang Hungtai, Paul Dutton, Ron Whitehead, Sarah Pagé, Greg Davis, Khaleefa "Apollo the Child" Hamdan, Alessandra Eramo, Jessica Ackerley, and others.
Cloud Circuit’s début LP will be released in June 2026 with Watch That Ends The Night Records.
Michael Cloud Duguay + Andrew Mackelvie
are a multidisciplinary creative duo and central animators of contemporary creative music in Canada, based in Peterborough ON and Halifax NS respectively. Throughout five years of intense and prolific collaboration, the two have contributed to dozens of internationally recognized creative performance and projects, including MacKelvie’s widely celebrated debut album with his spiritual jazz ensemble, Many Worlds, and Duguay’s critically-acclaimed electroacoustic chamber-drone ensemble, Scions. The two are co-creative directors of Watch That Ends The Night Records, an independent label platforming innovative music produced across Canada. Their performance at Suoni will, somehow, be their first time performing as a duo.

A feminist, inclusive punk rock night in collaboration with
La Fédération des femmes du QC (FFQ)
,
Les Insoumises
,
La Libraire féministe L'Euguélionne
,
and
LowLife Mtl Skate Shop
Rough Spells
is a four‑piece witch ’n roll band from Tkaronto, often described as Heart meets Black Sabbath. As settlers, immigrants, Jews and queers, the band supports meaningful acts of reconciliation and decolonization, and endorses the Calls for Justice from the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people.
Part of a queer, female‑fronted doom music movement, Rough Spells released their self‑produced EP Modern Kicks for the Solitary Witch, which debuted at #10 on the Doom Charts in 2018. Their releases include the Syster 7" and the full‑length album Ruins at Midday (Fuzzed and Buzzed / Dark Hedonistic Union).
Fueled by bluegrass and swing, the songs of
Margaret Tracteur
et les Faucheuses fauchées, a project by Gabrielle Noël Bégin, demonstrate a solid mastery of American folklore combined with great freedom. With keen observation skills, a healthy dose of humor, and surprising vocal techniques, the artist invites the audience on a personal and colorful journey between tradition and modernity that will delight troublemakers and yodel enthusiasts alike.
Presented as a female trio brought together for the cause, with Valéry St-Gelais (double bass) and Sandra Boulanger (violin), the group develops an organic, artisanal sound to convey lyrics that make you smile, bring people together, and set them free. The sun follows the trio on the roads of the countryside and cities, their contagious melodies, full of common sense and joyful rage, will follow you home. You have been warned!
Poolgirl
is a five‑piece alt‑rock band based in Montréal. Blending riot grrrl and punk influences with melodic indie rock, their sound has drawn comparisons to Bratmobile and Wednesday.
Since releasing their demo Is This It??? in January 2024, Poolgirl has been relentlessly active on the live circuit, performing across Canada at DIY basements, outdoor shows, festivals, and cultural events. Their latest single, Triple A (May 2025), highlights what they do best: fun, high‑energy rock that never takes itself too seriously. Poolgirl shows consistently bring together crowds ready to dance, mosh, sing/scream along.
Repurposing the anger, shock and alienation that stem from the ongoing disaster that is life in the 21st Century,
Bianca Supercell
aims to drown out the crap with their maximalist dreamy-noisy songs, in an attempt to get to the heart of the matter. Telling the stories as they see them unfold like some kind of overemotional reporter, they provide a musical response to the relentless affront on our basic humanity.