"What touched me particularly, was their 'group spirit' and a common passion amongst them" (Translated)

Le premier groupe, ‘St. Lawrence Warehouse Company’, est composé de jeunes musiciens talentueux et passionnés. Leur son folk est mélodieux et très chaleureux !

Ce qui m’a touchée chez eux, c’est une sorte « d’esprit d’équipe » et une passion commune. Bien qu’ils aient des parties acoustiques minimales et simples, avec un ou deux instruments et une voix douce, ils peuvent se lancer dans des crescendos qui poussent tout le monde à chanter aux sons du violon, de l’accordéon, de la guitare, de la flûte (et encore plus !) qui résonnent haut et fort. - Indie Blender

"If you’re experiencing a lack of the feels, this band is likely to set you right; their sets are emotional rollercoasters, if you’re at all attuned to the struggles of twenty-something artists/writers/musicians struggling to survive. They pull you in, and they squeeze some tears out of you before they let go." - Nexopia

"By the end, I was shaking."

"I hadn’t heard something that made me feel HOME in such a long time."

I’ll admit, the first musical act took a while to warm up to. The St Lawrence Warehouse Company is a multi-piece outfit consisting of (but not limited to) guitar, flute, violin, accordion and the ukelele. They play a pleasing and comforting collection of folk-pop in a passionate, jangly style. I nodded along, appreciating it, but nothing could have prepared me for their final song: a love song written for two metro stations, about loving Montréal in all its beauty and dysfunction.


"And if we were stations, then I would be Lionel-Groulx
We stand apart, dear, but so much flows from me to you…" (lyrics from a song "Berri-UQAM")


By the end, I was shaking. I’ve been living here for a year and a half. Loving life here has been harder than I’d expected. I hadn’t heard something that made me feel HOME in such a long time. I haven’t been singing much lately, but my voice rose in awkward harmonies for their final chorus, and as it ended they held each other on stage, and the audience erupted into whoops and hollers. My eyes were wet. I couldn’t applaud hard enough. - The Court Digital