Not even distance can keep Meaghan Tardif-Bennett attend Osheaga. The 22-year-old Concordia student is on an exchange in Germany, but she is struggling to raise funds for quick return, especially to attend your favorite music and arts festival in Montreal. In the past five years, Tardif-Bennett has camped on each day of Osheaga to ensure premium access to some of the best known music talent, including Coldplay, Arcade Fire and Macklemore.
"It's times like those still alive," she said. "I feel like the entire island of Montreal he meets, beating like a heartbeat. Though the crowd fades after a show, we all walk together singing, singing, music lover and we had just experienced. This is unreal”.
For music fans, there's nothing quite like Osheaga. It's where up-and-coming Canadian talents mix with heavyweight’s mainstream. When, a few years ago by local bands The Barr Brothers played in the same place as Eminem. When, in August, Hey Rosetta! Will shake out with Jack White.
Between August 1 and 3, it is expected that an estimated 135,000 people in shorts and fringed boots gladiator down on Parc Jean-Drapeau on a musical journey that evokes comparisons Coachella and Lollapalooza.
And like their counterparts in the U.S., Osheaga attracts its fair share of out-of-towners. Last year, 65 percent of those attending the festival - or nearly 88,000 people - came from outside Quebec. Among them was Malorie Bertrand.
Last August, Bertrand, along with three of his friends and family, pass between Ottawa and Montreal were opened in a two-hour trip that was years in the making. Bertrand first on Osheaga in 2009, but it was hard for her to find a group to go with. Schedules do not always align people and money was sometimes tight. Then last year, everything fell into place and Bertrand could not have been happier with time.
"It was probably one of the best years ahead," said the 28-year-old communications officer of the Canadian Foundation for Innovation. "The line was so diverse and full of talented acts."
Among the highlights were Mumford & Sons and Explosions in the Sky (Bertrand has been a fan of the band of American post-rock since it appeared on the soundtrack of the film Friday Night Lights.)
But more than music, Osheaga also about art and fashion, a look that Bertrand, a stylist part time, I wanted to explore. Dressed in a loose sleeveless racerback tank and jean shorts, Bertrand remained neutral and comfortable while taking pictures in stylish 20-somethings for Blog Ottawa Magazine.
"The events are always a good excuse to play with your style," he said, adding that many of the people he met had cute and functional teams as tops and shorts bohemian fringe.
If you feel disturbed by the image of thousands of party loving hipsters, do not. Osheaga enthusiasts insist that there is a way for all personality types to enjoy the festivities. Apart from the main dance areas in front of the steps, there is plenty of green space for relaxing music fans and families with young children to relax, sunbathe and sing along with the music.
MJ Lafleche plans to do just that. In the first Osheaga attended, in 2006, he was a teenager Lafleche rocking to Sonic Youth. Now at 24, the Starbucks barista calls itself "grumpy-old lady" when it comes to crowds. She will still be at Osheaga this August to see Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and Modest Mouse perform. And still anticipates complain of having to push through crowds. But Lafleche would not have it any other way.
"It's times like those still alive," she said. "I feel like the entire island of Montreal he meets, beating like a heartbeat. Though the crowd fades after a show, we all walk together singing, singing, music lover and we had just experienced. This is unreal”.
For music fans, there's nothing quite like Osheaga. It's where up-and-coming Canadian talents mix with heavyweight’s mainstream. When, a few years ago by local bands The Barr Brothers played in the same place as Eminem. When, in August, Hey Rosetta! Will shake out with Jack White.
Between August 1 and 3, it is expected that an estimated 135,000 people in shorts and fringed boots gladiator down on Parc Jean-Drapeau on a musical journey that evokes comparisons Coachella and Lollapalooza.
And like their counterparts in the U.S., Osheaga attracts its fair share of out-of-towners. Last year, 65 percent of those attending the festival - or nearly 88,000 people - came from outside Quebec. Among them was Malorie Bertrand.
Last August, Bertrand, along with three of his friends and family, pass between Ottawa and Montreal were opened in a two-hour trip that was years in the making. Bertrand first on Osheaga in 2009, but it was hard for her to find a group to go with. Schedules do not always align people and money was sometimes tight. Then last year, everything fell into place and Bertrand could not have been happier with time.
"It was probably one of the best years ahead," said the 28-year-old communications officer of the Canadian Foundation for Innovation. "The line was so diverse and full of talented acts."
Among the highlights were Mumford & Sons and Explosions in the Sky (Bertrand has been a fan of the band of American post-rock since it appeared on the soundtrack of the film Friday Night Lights.)
But more than music, Osheaga also about art and fashion, a look that Bertrand, a stylist part time, I wanted to explore. Dressed in a loose sleeveless racerback tank and jean shorts, Bertrand remained neutral and comfortable while taking pictures in stylish 20-somethings for Blog Ottawa Magazine.
"The events are always a good excuse to play with your style," he said, adding that many of the people he met had cute and functional teams as tops and shorts bohemian fringe.
If you feel disturbed by the image of thousands of party loving hipsters, do not. Osheaga enthusiasts insist that there is a way for all personality types to enjoy the festivities. Apart from the main dance areas in front of the steps, there is plenty of green space for relaxing music fans and families with young children to relax, sunbathe and sing along with the music.
MJ Lafleche plans to do just that. In the first Osheaga attended, in 2006, he was a teenager Lafleche rocking to Sonic Youth. Now at 24, the Starbucks barista calls itself "grumpy-old lady" when it comes to crowds. She will still be at Osheaga this August to see Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and Modest Mouse perform. And still anticipates complain of having to push through crowds. But Lafleche would not have it any other way.
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