Late June in Montreal, and the weather hasn't been cooperating for the Montreal Jazz Fest. It may be the world's largest Jazz Fest, but it's still an outdoor festival, with all the unpredictability that entails. Around 2 in the afternoon, after a morning of solid rain, the clouds parted long enough for Jess Gagnon, FOH mixer for Canadian trip-rock band Beast, to run sound check-but the plastic dome tent over FOH stayed up and the plastic tarp to cover the console stayed close at hand.
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