It was “due to the state of health of the artist”, who was suffering from the flu, that the performance was canceled, buyers of tickets which had been priced at $118 were informed. the unit.
The arrival of Diana Krall in Saguenay, which would have been a first in her career for this international icon of Canadian jazz, was announced in June 2024. Diffusion Saguenay welcomed the addition of a stop in Saguenay in his Quebec tour.
“It’s definitely a disappointment for us. We had a beautiful room waiting for the artist. I prefer not to speculate too much on the number of tickets that were sold, but it was a beautiful venue. The week before the artist came, we did not want to give an interview. We are going to keep this line for the moment,” commented Geneviève Larocque, the head of programming and marketing at Diffusion Saguenay, when reached by phone late in the afternoon by The Daily.
In Sherbrooke Saturday, in Quebec Monday and Tuesday
Saturday evening, Diana Krall did indeed go on stage in Estrie, an employee of the Cultural Center of the University of Sherbrooke was able to confirm, without however specifying whether the artist seemed in good shape or not during her performance.
At the time of writing these lines, Diana Krall’s appearance at the Grand Théâtre de Québec, Monday and Tuesday, had not been canceled. “Normally, these are the kinds of things that we know a little more in advance than that. Perhaps we will have news tomorrow,” suggested one of the respondents from the customer service of the Capitale-Nationale broadcaster.
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