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Montreal is the city of festivals and more specifically the city of music festivals, so it isn’t the most obvious concept for an up-and-coming music fest to carve out a place for itself in the crowded music-fest landscape ici.

That’s why Claude Larivée, president of La Tribu and head of the Mile Ex End Montréal festival, decided from the get-go that the event’s philosophy had to be “Small is beautiful.” The fest, which takes place on Labour Day weekend under the Rosemont/Van Horne overpass, is never going to compete with Osheaga, Canada’s biggest music fest, or the Montreal International Jazz Festival, one of the world’s leading jazz fests.

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The lineup for the third edition of Mile Ex End was unveiled at a press event late Tuesday afternoon and though the organizers have added one extra night of music on the Friday, it remains a small, compact festival.

Photo by John Mahoney / Montreal Gazette

Canadian singer-songwriter Feist headlines on Friday, Aug. 30, along with Kevin Morby, La Force, Mélissa Laveaux and Adam Naas.