Quebec to host biggest pilot concert to date

The 20,000-person open-air show, set for 25 September, will be open only to people who have had two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine

Plains of Abraham © NickHam (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Up to 20,000 fully vaccinated music fans will gather on the Plains of Abraham in Quebec City in September for the world’s biggest test concert to date.

Caroline Proulx, minister for tourism in the devolved government of Quebec, announced earlier this week that Laval University will oversee a pilot event provisionally set for 25 September, with local promoters invited to tender for a “test event [that will be] as close as possible to a pre-pandemic event in its formula”. The…

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