Evenko threatens to take Osheaga away
Evenko is threatening to hold Osheaga somewhere else if the city carries out its plan to re-green St Helen’s Island. But Evenko boss Nick Farkas is wrong when he says the island was “built for Expo 67 and part of its vocation is to be a park and an event space” – St Helen’s Island is not man-made and was a park for years before the world’s fair.
Minutes after the news broke on Twitter, Pierre Karl Péladeau tweeted that his organization could take over and deliver a better show.
Margaret Black 07:05 on 2021-04-16 Permalink
As festivals grows, are the Expo Islands supposed to give more and more ground to these events, which require spaced stage venues for reasons of sound and crowd security? After having lost so many of St Helen’s Island’s trees to the Amphitheatre, and man-made Ile Notre Dame’s surface area to the Grand Prix, does more park land have to be sacrificed?
Tim F 07:52 on 2021-04-16 Permalink
There would be no love lost for me if Evenko were to drop out of Osheaga, but PKP is the “How do you do, fellow kids?” of pop culture.
Jonathan 09:28 on 2021-04-16 Permalink
Good riddance is all I have to say. If PJD thought that people on the South Shore were NIMBY-arseholes, then let’s see what’s in store in Laval or elsewhere.
qatzelok 21:34 on 2021-04-16 Permalink
I can’t think of any park in Laval large enough to hold Osheaga.
But there are lots of world-class parking lots there that could hold it.