Quebecers can finally pay one final tribute to Karl Tremblay next Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Bell Centre.
The Legault government announced in a press release on Wednesday that, after consultation with the family, a national honoring ceremony will be organized for the Cowboys Fringants singer, who died last week at the age of 47.
The public can purchase tickets for the evening. A limited number of passes will be available on the Ticketmaster website starting at 10 a.m. Thursday.
The event will take place at the Bell Centre, where the Montreal Canadiens organization paid a brief tribute to Karl Tremblay the day after his death was announced.
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Touched by the wave of love and grief that swept Quebec last week, Prime Minister François Legault quickly offered to organize a nationwide funeral for the family to allow large numbers of Quebecers to attend.
The type of event chosen will ultimately correspond to his proposal, with the difference that there will be no religious ceremony, the Prime Minister’s Office told Radio-Canada, citing the example of honoring Lise Payette after her death in October 2018. The final The decision, it is said, was made by the family.
However, Quebec assures that the flag on the central tower of the Parliament building will fly at half-mast from morning to evening, like a national funeral that day. A register of condolences was also published online on the government website.
Grieving admirers
Here, as elsewhere, the death of Karl Tremblay left no one indifferent.
Numerous rallies took place in the days following the announcement, particularly in Repentigny, where Les Cowboys Fringants originated, but also in towns such as L’Assomption, Quebec, Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivières and La Tuque.
There was even a minute’s silence observed in the House of Commons in Ottawa on Monday in his honor.
Karl Tremblay announced in July 2022 that he was suffering from prostate cancer.
Nevertheless, the Cowboys Fringants continued to fulfill most of their obligations in the following months, including the planned concert on the Plains of Abraham as part of the Festival d’été de Québec (FEQ), until their final performance on September 9, 2023. in Saint Tite.