5 Reasons Montrealers Are Getting Really Excited For Igloofest This Winter
One of Canada’s Funnest Winter Festivals is Upon Montreal Again and the Whole City is Ecstatic in Anticipation.
The very special time of year that keeps the cold at bay and this city alive in its harshest season is finally here. When Saint Catherine’s sidewalks becomes covered in ice or the bars are rushing people in on Saint Laurent, you know you’ve entered Montreal’s notorious winter.
Lucky enough for all of us, Igloofest is only a week away and everyone seems to be excited for Montreal’s most impressive winter event. With the anticipation building up, I’ve taken the time to detail five excellent reasons to be very excited for this season.
1. Igloofest’s Location
It’s well known that Igloofest’s location has become perfectly suited for an amazing twelve date festival. Unlike the sun sizzled events throughout the summer which mainly take place on Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal, Igloofest makes its residence for all four weeks in one of Montreal’s most beautiful areas.
The old port is easily accessible to festival goers every single weekend and the pier is large enough to hold the growing demand of attendees that reached a total of 80,000 last year collectively.
2. Talented International and Local Artists
Last year’s most impressive back-to-back set consisted of musical mastermind and Dirtybird founder Claude VonStroke and his right side henchman and maestro Justin Martin. Both artists are serious creators in the experimental side of tech and deep house.
The Dirtybird legacy continues this year at Igloofest on the first Saturday of the festival. January 17th will host J.Phlip and Kill Frenzy, two current Dirtybird producer, perform a back-to-back set before Justin Martin returns to close the night with a very special set of skills.
Igloofest’s opening Sunday show last year saw T.E.E.D play with Pete Tong on one of the coldest dates reaching -35 degrees Celicus. The wave of talent from the UK continues this year with an underground influence from Paul Woolford, originally native to Leeds. This deep house guru will perform one of Igloofest’s best back-to-back sets this year along side London’s own Midland.
Prince Club’s darker techno set on the Sapporo stage set the bar in 2014; things always get spooky when Prince Club comes out to play. This year local talent is outdone again with amazing talent, predominately happening at Video Tron’s second stage. Project Pablo’s groovy performance is not to be missed the first Sunday of Igloofest on January 18th.
3. Bright Colours
The sea of colourful clothes, bright apparel, retro snow pants, and vibrant atmosphere is unlike any other festival experience. Igloofest’s unique blend of almost every kind of subculture in big blotchy coloured puffy coats with mitts raving all together seems almost surreal.
Combine this collection of individuals with the massive Sapparo stage and all the visual eye-candy from local VJs. What you’re left with is an amazing mix of synthesis structured music matched by a huge visual screen for enticing the attendees to move.
Igloofest tuques, skiing googles, and fuzzy headbands are typical and common among the audience at Igloofest. With new hats every year that come in different colour themes, you can always expect to see a sea of bright tops among the crowd.
Perhaps it’s time to visit the closest Salvation Army again to look for a new colourful jacket or vintage winter jacket?
4. Some Majestic Snowfalls
When the snow falls on the crowd in the middle of any winter event it creates a visual delight with the lights. While rain may revitalize and cool down at a summer festival, snow acts quite the contrary at Igloofest. Instead it feels as a blanket falling over the crowd that everyone can’t help but shake off.
The light show at Igloofest is absolutely stunning and becomes only enhanced with falling snow to glisten in the laser beams. Green Velvet would most definitely melt if he visited this festival from being struck by so many colours.
5. Creative Costumes to Keep Warm
It’s no real shock that people come completely decorated and dazzled to any large festival event. Igloofest sets the bar for crazy and creativity higher by taking place outside in the winter and providing a much bigger dilemma of warmth.
Yet every year, people come in the most unique disguises and comfortable attires. They rage the night away listening to a range of genres and experimental sides from musicians who know
I’m not even sure what exactly this is suppose to be, but I’m sure it was cosy!
Some fury layers, whether spirit hoods or gorilla suits, can definitely act as a second protective layer of warmth on the ice cold Igloofest dates.
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