Salut

Encore cette année TELUS présentera des feux d'artifices sur le site du Vieux Port de Montréal les 6-13-20 et 27 décembre.
J'étais là en 2007 et je puis vous dire que c'était vraiment bon.
Le site est bien organisé et il y a des endroits pour se réchauffer.

L'an dernier il y avait des spectacles de musique traditionnelle avant et après les feux. Vraiment tous bons et générant beaucoup d'énergie.En espérant que cette bonne idée soit de retour en 2008.

Bonne journée

Roger

Thanks for the news, Roger. At what time are the displays typically set to begin? I would imagine close to dinner time as, by December, the days are tremendously short and the place is almost completely dark just after 4 p.m.

Thanks again,

Trav.

Salut Smoke

L'an dernier les feux étaient lancés à 20 heures.
Je vais vérifier si cet horaire sera maintenu.

Roger

J'ai travailler aux feux sur glace il y a deux ans et c'était pas mauvais! J'devrais être appellée a le faire cette année. Sa devrais être maintenus pour 20h.

Jay

Bonjour tout le monde !

Me revoilà d'outre atlantique. J'ai enfin digéré les mauvaises notes attribuées à l'Autriche

Trêve de plaisanterie. Je cherchais justement quelqu'un qui puisse me renseigner sur ces fameux feux de glace. Je n'ai jamais eu l'occasion d'en voir. Y a-t-il quelque part une ou plusieurs vidéos afin que je puisse me rendre compte ?

Il n'est pas exclu que je revienne en Décembre d'ailleurs et j'en profiterai certainement pour aller en voir.

A bientôt et bonne continuation à vous tous.

Dambrig

Salut Dambrig, Bah tu voit sa commence Les 6, 13, 20 et 27 décembre à 20H00 sur le Quai Jacques-Cartier.

Fait le moi savoir dès que tu passeras, j'y vais aussit!

Heum dambrig tu connait Harry? Je suis FlashSalute comme référence.. Laisse moi un courriel sur mon msn dès que possible!

explosives@live.ca

Cordialement

Jérôme

It starts saturday guys !!! Don't miss it !!! All fireworks are planned to start at 20h, and to last about 15 minutes.

Here's the schedule :

December 6th : Royal Pyrotechnie
December 13th : Ampleman
December 20th : FAE Pyrotechnie
December 27th : BEM Fireworks

Reloadable, will you be working there ?

I don't seem to recall FAE Pyrotechnie ever participating in the competition before as a Quebec firm. If a Quebec company were to truly participate again, it would be nice to see this team enter.

And welcome to the shortest days of the year. We'll start recovering some daylight towards the end of the month, but very slowly. As things stand now, we only have barely a mere 9 hours worth of daylight. Quite a cold week coming up (perhaps starting off the work-week with a mini-snowfall later Monday), but the weather for tomorrow evening's display (the 6th) shouldn't be tremendously cold due to increasing cloud cover, though it still will prompt you to bundle up due to light to occasional moderate winds coupled with temperatures hovering around -3 to -4 Celsius (could feel more like -9 to -11 C). A little bit of snow on the way for Sunday - whatever snow we get now is likely to remain on the ground.

For those of you attending tomorrow evening's display, enjoy the show, especially since it's being put on by Royal!

Trav.

FAE presented a display in last year's Feux sur glace. They have also participated in the compatition at Lac des Nations in Sherbrooke (the all-Canadian competition).

Tomorrow's display by Royal is entitled "Poussière d'étoiles". I don't know what the musical theme is though. Looks like the weather will be OK for tomorrow too - if there's light snow it will add to the atmosphere.

And I have inside information that at least one of our forum members will be working on the show

Bonne feux!

Paul.

FAE (formerly Feux d'artifices Estrie) was also the Canadian entrant in the 2008 GlobalFest in Calgary.

It's a shame that I can't attend each display as I did in the past. This festival is really nice, but I hope that sound system has been improved. I plan to watch the December 27th show and I will try to manage my agenda to see a second one.

Following Paul's inside information, members will find more details here: http://myleneetartifice.blogspot.com/

Fred

Bonjour à tous!

Je serai là ce soir pour les Feux sur Glace, c'est certain! Je suis vraiment en manque de feux d'artifice, après 4 mois d'arrêt depuis la compétition de cet été!

Le thème ce soir est "Poussière d'étoiles"? Ça peut donner comme indication que la pièce musicale intitulée "Stardust" pourrait bien faire partie de la trame!

Je commence dès maintenant, à faire la danse de la pluie......car avec une température sous zéro, on pourrait assister à un spectacle accompagné de flocons de neige!

Bonne Soirée à vous tous!

Pierre

Excellent opening display from Royal Pyrotechnie. Thanks to fairly reasonable temperatures, there were a lot of people on the skating rink watching the display. Of all the displays I've seen over the years in this series (and, to be fair, I haven't seen all of them), I would say Saturday's was the best yet. Everything worked well - even the sound system seemed a lot better this year, though the wind direction may have helped with this. Kudos to our favorite blogger, Mylene, for helping make this display a success - this was her first professional display on the road to becoming a licensed pyrotechnician!

Paul.

Hello all,

Long time no see! I hope that you're all well and that most of you were able to make it down to the Old Port Saturday for Royal's display.

As Paul said, it was quite good. I was surprised at how different it was from Royal's previous Feux Sur Glace display in 2007. On the positive side, I liked that it wasn't as Christmas-themed as last year, giving them the liberty to use a soundtrack that was quite atmospheric and held together nicely for the 16 (or so) minutes which the display lasted. Also, there were no lengthy periods where the music went along without any fireworks - this was the only issue I had with Royal Pyrotechnie's display last year. Then again, with Mylene behind the scenes there really wasn't any doubt that the show would go off flawlessly this time!

The only thing I would hold against Royal is that they did not do as good a job of making use of the firing site as last year. Last year their display featured a glowing angel and many fireworks angled in different directions that fired in perfect synchronisation to the music. However, this year they did have what I assume was one of those circular-type firing setups (think Portugal and the United States from this past year at La Ronde). Royal only used it once during their display and while it looked great, it felt out of place.

Apart from that it was a good display which I enjoyed very much. I watch from just in front of the Labyrinthe building (still quite a distance from the skating rink) and I actually found the sound quality on-site to be worse this year from my position. I think the speaker closest to me was only functional from time to time as parts of the introduction I could barely hear and then at times it was nice and loud.

I also managed to videotape the show and I can try to get it on YouTube in the coming week for those who missed it.

Keep warm,
Tyler

hi Mylene! You can speak french ?

Effectivement je suis sensée être appellée pour du moins completé l'un des feux pour une des firmes, je croyait que Royal m'aurait appellée mais bon! Les autres passe en premier!

J'était tristement a l'autre bout de la rive-sud a voir le feux aux loin "genre a peu près 8km" je pouvait entendre la musique et les bombes éclaté aux loins et voir les plus gros calibre aux loins, j'ai manqué de quoi metton!

J'opère pour plusieurs compagnie à l'occasion, j'ai rien fait depuis juillet derniers, le temp est long..

Peut être, mais peut être m'as oeuvrer sur l'un des feux..

J'ai été démasquée !!!

Yes i did participate in my first firework last saturday. Amazing ! For more infos, read my blog as Fred said .

Trae... Then again, with Mylene behind the scenes there really wasn't any doubt that the show would go off flawlessly this time!'. No pressure !!!

Paul, Thanks.

Everyone who attend, thanks ! I'm eager to see the vid now (han Trae...)

Reloadable, je serai aussi avec Ampleman et FAE. Peut-etre s'y verra-t'on ?

Next saturday : 'Winter Solstice' is inviting you !!!
Same place, same hour.