The St-Ambroise Montreal FRINGE Festival (Festival St-Ambroise Fringe de Montréal) is a unique fringe festival with an unbeatable neighborhood feel! Block party and performing arts collide every June in the Plateau Mile-End for this celebration of creativity without limits that includes music, comedy, dance and theatre from over 500 performers. The St-Ambroise Montreal FRINGE Festival is bilingual, and includes local, national and international artists from Montreal to Greece to Japan!
Fun Facts about the Montreal FRINGE Festival
The Montreal Fringe holds separate lotteries to select 60% Québec artists (half English, half French), 20% Canadian artists, and 20% international artists. The Montreal Fringe Festival was founded in 1991 by Kris Kieran and Nick Morra, both McGill students at the time.The festival draws over 50 000 to the festival. and presents over 700 performances by over 500 theatre, comedy, dance, music and visual artists.
