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The entire Osheaga 2023 lineup is finally out. Among the big names in the lineup are Carly Rae Jepsen, Rema, Baby Keem, and Kim Petras.

The lineup presentation comes a day after it leaked via a buried file in the festival newsroom. Osheaga organizer evenko responded by announcing the official lineup drop would come noon the following day, which was possibly an acceleration of the original schedule. Before the leak, organizers had promised the official drop in "mid-March."

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Last year, 35,000 people proved that country music isn't dead by dressing up in their best western outfits for LASSO. Now, Montreal's newest summer music festival is set to return to the Espace 67 grounds in Parc Jean-Drapeau for a second edition between August 18 and 19, 2023. And organizers have finally dropped the full lineup.

We already knew that Billboard-topping musicians Kane Brown and Chris Stapleton were going to headline the two-day event. 2022 leading acts included Luke Bryan, Dierks Bentley, Old Dominion, and Kelsea Ballerini.

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LASSO Montreal, the country music festival whose long-delayed first edition finally hit Parc Jean-Drapeau this past August, has announced its return in 2023, citing a "massive" success for its debut.

2022 acts included Luke Bryan, Dierks Bentley, Five Roses and Tenille Townes. As many as 35,000 people showed up dressed in their country best.

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Almost three years after it was first announced, Montreal country music festival LASSO is finally going ahead. The festival dropped its lineup for its long-awaited first edition, including headliners Dierks Bentley, Luke Bryan, Old Dominion, and Kelsea Ballerini.

Other names could be added to the list.

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Montreal hip-hop, dance and electronic music festival îLESONIQ has dropped the first part of the lineup for its 2022 edition. The three-day event is set to take over the Espace 67 festival grounds in Parc Jean-Drapeau with headliners including Swedish House Mafia and French Montana.

Sean Paul, Eric Prydz, FISHER, Ben Böhmer, and Ilan Bluestone are among the other big names highlighted by the festival in a press release.

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