Artist Booking in Montreal

Artist Booking Market Notes for Montreal

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.

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