September 16, 2007
Montreal's Black and Blue Goes on a "Power Trip"
Jesse Kreitzman READ TIME: 2 MIN.
Bad Boy Club Montreal is putting the final touches on its Black & Blue 2007, an award-winning, week-long party, fundraiser, and cultural celebration, transforming Montreal into party capital of the world from October 3-9.
The theme for this year's main event on October 7 is "Power Trip." For the occasion, the interior of Montreal's Olympic Stadium will be dressed up like a giant fantasy power station, with high tech decorations and lighting effects, along with electrifying costumes and performances, charging two mega-dance floors throughout the night.
Boasting an international crowd, Black and Blue--which topped EDGE's list of Best Circuit Events in 2006 and was voted the Best International Festival by Pink TV in France--brings together people of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and sexual orientations in one mega-celebration of music, dancing, and all-out fun.
The main event will be jam-packed with original shows featuring numerous artists, dancers, acrobats, and DJs. "This year's theme has inspired us to create some really breathtaking lighting effects," says Jean-Pierre Perusse, the event's Artistic Director for the past three years.
"For the first time ever, we're going to have three separate mega lasers on the main dance floor, each one operated independently from a different spot to create a kaleidoscope of mind-boggling new effects."
One of the most unifying factors of Black and Blue is the music, and BBCM has commissioned some of the world's best-loved DJs to pump up the festival, including Montreal DJs Stefane Lippe, Robert de la Gauthier, and international icons Mark Anthony and Mistress Barbara (Montreal), Peter Rauhofer and Manny Lehman (New York), D-formation (Madrid) Gabriel Dresden (San Francisco), Michael Kaiser and Antoine Clamaran (Paris), and Craig Mitchell (Boston).
Besides the main event, the Black and Blue Festival boasts a full week of other popular parties and a number of cultural activities.
For more information, please visit www.bbcm.org.
