Quebec City International Festival of Military Bands
- Quebec City International Festival of Military Bands
The Quebec City International Festival of Military Bands (FIMMQ) is one of the major cultural events of Quebec City, as well as the appointment of great number of Canadian and foreign military musical formations. The Festival is up every year in August. This year, it last 14 days and offers musical shows in several historical places in the old capital. Since 2001, the president and director-general of the Festival is the lieutenant-colonel Yvan Lachance.
Created in 1998, the FIMMQ celebrates its tenth anniversary in 2008, when Quebec is celebrating its 400th anniversary. The Military Bands hosting this event, "les Voltigeurs de Québec" and the "Royal 22e Régiment", will welcome for the occasion the Military Bands of Germany, Australia, Belgium, Chile, South Korea, the United States, France, Norway, the Netherlands, Poland, United Kingdom, Russia and Singapore. The Festival proposes outdoors prestations for all the family and indoors one with the popular Red Russian Army Choir and the Quebec City Military Tattoo.
Origin
The festival was created in 1998, by Jacques DuSault, which wanted to offer outdoors music shows to emphasize the Old Quebec City. The Canadian Armed forces were invited to contribute, with the implication of the retired lieutenant-colonel Yvan Lachance, old ordering of the "Voltigeurs de Québec", and major Denis Bernier, then directing the Military Band of the "Royal 22e Régiment".
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