With 44 days to go before the first concert, the Festival d’été de Québec has already begun setting up its main stage and setting up the Plains of Abraham.
Since Tuesday morning, workers, machinery and piles of metal fences have invaded the grounds, which will host the Foo Fighters, Imagine Dragons, Green Day and several other big stars from here and elsewhere from July 6-16.
The FEQ is doing it a few days in advance this year. In the past, work on the plains usually started in early June.
According to general manager Nicolas Racine, the organization of the festival simply jumped at the opportunity to take possession of the land earlier.
“It allows us to prepare better. It’s still a big installation project. I don’t think we’ll finish sooner. Like every year, it will go to the end. It gives us leeway, especially when it comes to the weather.”
No major changes are planned for the Plains of Abraham site. The most significant changes to the FEQ sites are those planned for the second stage, the Parc de la Francophonie double stage, to which an “experience zone” in Parc Georges V will be added.