Back on the 23rd and 24th, the city of Longueuil held their annual Fête Nationale celebrations. On the 23rd, the celebrations were held in the historic Parc St. Marc section of Longueuil while on the 24th, the party took place at the immense Parc de la Cité in the borough of Saint-Hubert. I had the good fortune to be able to photograph the concerts during both parties, and though we ended up getting a little bit wet on the first night, a great time was had by all. As is tradition, both events began with speeches for our municipal, provincial and federal governments. The MC for our first night was Diane Trudel, who, like the rest of us, made the best of a bad situation when the rain began to fall from the sky, and night two was headlined by radio DJ Jean-Yves Lemay from FM 103.3. The politicians on hand for the party on the 23rd were
Longueuil mayor Catherine Fournier, Members of the National Assembly, Shirley Dorismond, Lionel Carmant, Isabelle Poulet, as well as Members of the House of Commons of Canada, Denis Trudel and Sherry Romanado and City Councillor Carl Lévesque. Some of them also returned on Sunday, but I didn't see the point in creating a second post with the same people, so we'll get the political class taken care of in one quick update here. As usual, they did a great job mentioning the importance of the day and a solid cheer-leading effort to get the crowd pumped up on both nights for the musical goodness that was to follow. The first photograph was taken at f/3.2, 1/800sec, ISO 1600 at 70mm and the second photograph was taken at f/3.2, 1/8sec, ISO 1600 at 70mm. Here are a few more photographs of our elected leaders in action at La Fête Nationale.
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