Francouvertes is an annual music festival in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, which spotlights emerging francophone musical artists from Quebec. [1]
At the end of each year's festival, three finalists are named, following which a jury presents an award of $10,000 to an artist chosen as the best artist of the festival.
Following are the winners and first and second runners-up of each year's event. [2]
Félix Dyotte is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Quebec, who won the SOCAN Songwriting Prize in 2020 as the writer of Evelyne Brochu's single "Maintenant ou jamais". He was nominated for the same award two prior times, for his songs "Avalanches" in 2016 and "Je cours" in 2018.
Monogrenade is a francophone band based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Bernard Adamus is a Canadian singer-songwriter based in Quebec, whose music draws on folk, blues, country and hip-hop influences.
Karim Ouellet was a Senegalese-born Canadian pop singer-songwriter. He released three albums between 2011 and 2016; his second album Fox won a Juno Award in 2014.
Alain Farah is a Canadian writer and academic. Born in Montreal, Quebec in 1979 to Lebanese immigrant parents, he has published two novels and a collection of poetry.
Klô Pelgag is the stage name of Chloé Pelletier-Gagnon, a Canadian singer-songwriter from Quebec.
The Association des galeries d'art contemporain is a non-profit organization created in 1985, whose head office is located in Montréal.
The Prix Iris for Best Film is an annual film award presented Québec Cinéma as part of its Prix Iris program, to honour the year's best film made within the Cinema of Quebec.
Serge Bouchard was a Canadian anthropologist, writer, and media personality. Bouchard studied contemporary life in Canada from an anthropological perspective; his subjects ranged from Innu hunters to Quebec truck drivers. Through his frequent appearances in the media, Bouchard's commentary reached both a popular and scholarly audience. He received the Prix Gérard-Morrisset in 2015 and a Governor-General's Award in 2017.
Patrice Michaud is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Cap-Chat, Quebec. He won the SOCAN Songwriting Prize in the French division in 2014 for his song "Mécaniques générales", and his 2017 album Almanach was a Juno Award finalist for Francophone Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2018.
Philippe Brach is the stage name of Philippe Bouchard, a Canadian singer-songwriter from Saguenay, Quebec.
Tire le coyote is the stage name of Benoît Pinette, a Canadian folk-rock singer-songwriter from Quebec. He is most noted for receiving a Juno Award nomination for Francophone Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2019.
Salomé Leclerc is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Quebec.
Les Louanges is a Canadian indie pop act from Quebec, that consists of Vincent Roberge. His debut album, La nuit est une panthère, was a shortlisted nominee for the 2019 Polaris Music Prize, and won the Juno Award for Francophone Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2020.
Émile Bilodeau is a Canadian singer-songwriter.
Laurence-Anne Charest Gagné is a Canadian pop singer from Quebec, whose debut album Première apparition was a longlisted nominee for the 2019 Polaris Music Prize.
Kanen is the stage name of Karen Pinette-Fontaine, an Innu singer-songwriter from Uashat-Maliotenam, Quebec. She is most noted as a Felix Award nominee for Indigenous Artist of the Year at the 43rd Félix Awards.
Philippe Brault is a Canadian record producer and film score composer from Montreal, Quebec. He is most noted as a two-time Prix Iris winner for Best Original Music, winning at the 21st Quebec Cinema Awards in 2019 for The Fireflies Are Gone and at the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2022 for Drunken Birds .
Ariane Roy is a Canadian pop singer from Quebec City, Quebec, whose debut album Medium plaisir was released in 2022.
Thierry Larose is a Canadian indie rock singer-songwriter from Marieville, Quebec.