‘We’re back’: Montreal festival promoters happy to return but looking to next year “The goal is to have a test concert sometime in September that would reproduce the conditions pre-pandemic,” Proulx told reporters in Quebec City. “The goal is to help the event industry, which has been severely hit by the pandemic, to fully resume its activities in a safe environment.”Quebec is touting itself as the first province to attempt such an experiment; similar ones have been held in cities like Barcelona and Paris.The experiment will involve two shows — a 20,000-person outdoor concert and a 5,000-person concert indoors, Proulx said, adding that the government estimates the events will cost a total of between $2 million and $3 million.