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Jean-Michel Blais: Mirador

Name: Jean-Michel Blais: Mirador
Start: 2026-10-26T19:30:00+00:00
End: 2026-10-26T21:30:00+00:00

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Mon 26 Oct 2026

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Jean-Michel Blais was ready to make an epic. mirador, the pianist-composer’s fourth album, finds the Montrealer turning his gaze onto a wondrous world—exchanging contemporary minimalism for a light and generous maximalism.

After 375 million streams and the biggest concerts of his life, the origins of mirador were remembrances from childhood. As a musical kid—and, even if he wasn’t fully aware of these things yet, as a queer person, with Tourette’s—Blais’ basement was his imaginary lookout, his “mirador,” from which he could dream the world. There, he’d browse in wonder through a Larousse encyclopaedia; he’d play with the family’s cheap Hammond organ and endlessly replay the same cassettes.

On mirador, Jean-Michel Blais offers a path back to childhood—cut a crown from a piece of paper and suddenly you have a kingdom.