Montreal'sEvent Booking &
Live Entertainment Agency.

Find the right venue in Montreal for your next live event. We help promoters, artists, and private hosts secure halls and theatres in Montreal, Canada — from intimate 100-seat club rooms to 5,000-cap concert halls. Capacity, layout, AV, parking, and licensing all sorted before you sign.

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We hold weekend dates while you decide — most Montreal halls give us a 7–14 day exclusive on a soft hold.

Montreal hall rental pricing breaks roughly into three tiers, and the bilingual contracting layer makes it materially different from Toronto or Edmonton. Club rooms (150-600 cap) — Theatre Corona, L'Olympia, Le National, Bar Le Ritz PDB on the Plateau — sit at $1,500-$5,000 for a weekend night, often inclusive of in-house sound and a basic light rig. Mid-tier theatres and ballrooms (800-3,000 cap) — MTELUS, Theatre St-Denis, Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Theatre Maisonneuve — run $5,000-$18,000 with AV add-ons and IATSE Local 56 stagehand minimums attached to most union houses. Arena-scale (Bell Centre, Place Bell in Laval, Olympic Stadium for festival-format) is quoted per show and bundles a complex revenue split with evenko or Spectra, the two dominant promoters. For South Asian community events, the most-used halls sit in Laval (Sheraton Laval ballroom, Chateau Royal, Le Crystal) and along the West Island corridor near Dollard-des-Ormeaux. For Haitian-Canadian, Lebanese, and Maghrebi community shows — large and underserved verticals here — the go-to rooms are Centre Pierre-Charbonneau, Theatre Plaza, and various Saint-Laurent boulevard reception halls. Catch Movement maintains direct relationships with bookers at each, often working in French, so we can verify weekend availability typically within 24 hours and hold dates while contracts are drawn. Common pitfalls Montreal hosts hit: missing the RACJ liquor permit window (minimum 30 days for a reunion permit), under-budgeting Ville de Montreal occupancy and noise permits for outdoor adjuncts, and forgetting that Quebec's Charter of the French Language requires venue signage and certain contractual elements to be available in French.

Direct DJ booking for Montreal, Canada — Punjabi wedding DJs, Bollywood/Hindi DJs, club and EDM DJs, dhol players, and full DJ + dhol packages. Sangeet, reception, club night, college party, corporate event — we match the DJ to the room and the crowd.

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A bundled dhol-DJ-emcee package saves 15–25% versus booking each separately — and the night flows cleaner with one team running the room.

Montreal's DJ market is distinctly different from English Canada — it's one of the deepest electronic and club-music scenes in North America, shaped by decades of Mutek, Piknic Electronik, and the Plateau-Mont-Royal club corridor. The talent pool splits into four streams. The francophone club and house circuit centres on Stereo Nightclub, New City Gas, and Ausgang Plaza, with resident DJs working corporate, brand, and private events at premium rates. The open-format wedding-and-corporate stream is bilingual by default — DJs who can read a room mixing francophone Quebec hits, English Top 40, Latin (Montreal's Latin-American community is sizeable), and Haitian compas and zouk. The Afro-Caribbean specialist pool — kompa, soca, dancehall, Afrobeats — is one of the strongest in Canada and books heavily for Haitian-Canadian, West African, and Caribbean diaspora events. The fourth, smaller stream is South Asian — Punjabi, Bollywood, and Indipop DJs serving the Laval and West Island wedding circuit, often crossover-booked from Toronto when local supply is tight. Fee bands Catch Movement sees most often in Montreal: local open-format wedding DJ for a 6-hour reception, $1,500-$3,500; bilingual DJ-MC combo, $2,500-$5,500; Afro-Caribbean specialist for a 4-hour set, $1,800-$4,500; Bollywood-Punjabi DJ-MC bundle for a full reception, $3,000-$6,500; named touring or festival-tier electronic talent, $5,000-$25,000+ quoted on routing. Sound and basic lighting are typically bundled below $3,500.

Wedding entertainment booking for Montreal, Canada — Punjabi singers, dhol players, Bollywood live bands, English-market wedding singers, and emcees. Whether it's a sangeet, mehndi, baraat, reception, or a full multi-day Indian wedding, we route the right talent for the moment.

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A multi-day Indian wedding has three to five distinct entertainment moments. We sequence all of them under one contract, with one rep on event day.

Montreal weddings span a wider cultural range than almost any Canadian city, and the entertainment stack reflects it. A typical Quebecois or French-Canadian wedding builds around a bilingual DJ-MC, a cocktail-hour jazz trio or acoustic act (the Montreal Jazz Festival's year-round bench keeps live-music supply high), and an evening DJ set; live francophone cover bands are increasingly booked for receptions on the Plateau and in Mile End. Italian, Lebanese, and Greek-Canadian weddings — large communities here — typically book a live band plus DJ, with the band handling cultural set pieces and the DJ closing the night. Haitian-Canadian weddings center on a kompa or zouk band plus a specialist DJ for the late-night dance floor. South Asian weddings in Montreal cluster in Laval, Brossard, and the West Island; the stack mirrors Toronto and Edmonton (dhol baraat + sangeet act + reception DJ + emcee) but at slightly lower price points. Our most-booked Montreal wedding combinations: (1) bilingual DJ-MC plus cocktail jazz trio for a downtown or Old Port reception, $4,500-$8,500; (2) full live cover band plus DJ for an Italian or Lebanese reception, $6,500-$18,000; (3) Haitian kompa band plus late-night DJ, $5,500-$14,000; (4) full Punjabi or Bollywood ceremony-to-close stack for a Laval banquet hall, $12,000-$40,000 mid-market. Emcee bookings — bilingual EN/FR almost always — typically add $1,000-$3,000 to a wedding stack and are functionally mandatory for any mixed-language guest list.

Direct booking for stand-up comedians touring through Montreal, Canada. We work with English-market headliners, regional features, and Punjabi / South Asian comedy circuits — for clubs, theatres, corporate events, college shows, and private parties.

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Routing matters more than fee. We usually save 20–40% by aligning to a comic's existing tour passage through your city — same set, lower number.

Montreal is the comedy capital of Canada, full stop. Just for Laughs / Juste pour rire — anchored here every July — is the largest comedy festival in the world, pulling roughly 2 million attendees and routing virtually every major English and French stand-up touring act through the city across two-plus weeks. The English festival hub runs at MTELUS, Theatre Maisonneuve, and the Hyatt's gala stages; the French festival operates a parallel circuit at Theatre St-Denis, L'Olympia, and Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier. Outside the festival, the year-round English club scene anchors at The Wiggle Room, Comedyworks, and the Just for Laughs Club, while the French-language stand-up circuit — a fully distinct ecosystem that often doesn't tour outside Quebec — runs through Le Bordel Comedie Club, Theatre Sainte-Catherine, and ComediHa! routings. Quebec stand-ups (Sugar Sammy, Adib Alkhalidey, Mariana Mazza, Rachid Badouri, P-A Methot) are major draws inside the province but unfamiliar to ROC promoters; Catch Movement bridges that gap. Fee bands: open-mic and developing acts, $50-$200; established local headliners (45-60 min sets), $1,000-$3,500; touring national English headliners, $4,000-$15,000; top-tier Quebec francophone headliners, $5,000-$20,000+; named international JFL gala-tier talent on tour-stop, $15,000-$75,000 + travel. For private Punjabi or South Asian wedding comedy spots (a 20-30 min interlude), $1,500-$4,000 is the working range; Punjabi and Hindi-language comedy demand in Montreal is real but smaller than Toronto or Edmonton.

Direct artist booking specialising in Punjabi, Bollywood, and South Asian touring acts for Montreal, Canada. Whether it's a wedding reception, a sangeet night, a private corporate show, or a public concert, we route the right artist for your audience and budget.

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Private bookings of top-tier Punjabi headliners are routing-dependent. We quote within 48 hours once we see the artist's window against your Montreal date.

Direct artist booking in Montreal means routing a touring act into one of three distinct markets: francophone Quebec (Coeur de pirate, Klo Pelgag, Loud, FouKi, Hubert Lenoir, Charlotte Cardin), English-Canadian and international touring (everyone who plays Bell Centre, MTELUS, or Place Bell), and the diaspora circuit (Haitian, Lebanese, Maghrebi, and a smaller South Asian flow). The Quebec francophone touring economy is a closed loop in many ways — Quebec artists rarely cross into ROC at scale, and ROC promoters routinely miss Quebec because they don't have the relationships or French-language contracting capacity. Catch Movement works both sides. Major annual flows: Osheaga (early August, Ile Sainte-Helene, ~135,000 attendees) draws international rock, indie, and hip-hop tours; the Montreal Jazz Festival (late June into early July) pulls global jazz, blues, and crossover acts; Just for Laughs anchors the comedy traffic. Bell Centre routings for Punjabi and Bollywood headliners are less frequent than Toronto's Scotiabank Arena — Diljit Dosanjh, Karan Aujla, and AP Dhillon have all played Montreal, but typically once per tour where Toronto gets two or three dates. Fee bands we see in Montreal: rising francophone Quebec acts, $3,500-$15,000 private; established mid-tier Quebec or Canadian touring, $20,000-$80,000; international top-tier headliners (private bookings), $150,000-$1,000,000+; public-tour fees quoted by promoter share with evenko or Spectra. Visa, immigration, and Canadian withholding tax (15-25% depending on treaty), plus Quebec-specific Revenu Quebec filings, are handled by our team end-to-end.