Sirens Call - Pointe-à-Callière’s Port Symphonies

Montreal Privateer's Horn - Courtesy farm2.static.flickr.com

Sunday March 1 and March 8 at 1.30 pm is going to see outstanding winter performance in Montreal. Pointe-à-Callière brings Old Montréal to life with the sound of its Port Symphonies. This amazing show will be on for the 15th year in a row. The event is now part of Montreal tradition.

Everybody ought to be there for this unique open-air concert to be held in the area around the Museum. The Spicy Sounds of a Privateer’s Horn, will be a free show bringing alive the sounds of boats, locomotives, and other urban instruments, including the bells of Notre-Dame Basilica serenading a most unusual and original composition.

Hear musical intonations emanating from trains, tugboats and boats moored in the Old Port. The Canadian guru of musique actuelle, Bernard Falaise, composer-performer extraordinaire will be presenting an imaginary episode in the life of Captain Bartholomew, the commander of a privateer ship.

This event inspired by the mysterious world of pirates, privateers and freebooters is also the theme of the temporary exhibition at the Museum this summer. Seven boats will take part in the concert. The group Les Murènes will perform sea chanteys in Place Royale as a prelude before the start of the Symphony.

Not to be missed - the All-Nighter, A Night at Sea, scheduled for the night of Saturday, February 28 to Sunday, March 1st, from 8 p.m. to 3 a.m. The city’s night owls will be spending a night at the Museum! The magical nights will be sharing tales about the sea, sailors, pirates, privateers, and freebooters. Certainly you will get to see the permanent exhibition - Where Montréal Was Born and the multimedia show Montréal, Tales of a City, alongside. They would be free of charge!

Pointe-à-Callière's Port Symphonies - Courtesy www.pacmuseum.qc.ca