Luke Combs Parc Jean Drapeau draws Phil Lauzon to Montreal Friday, Saturday
luke combs parc jean drapeau lands in Montreal on Friday and Saturday, and Phil Lauzon is already built around that same songbook. The Quebec singer has spent years turning Luke Combs material into a recurring live show across the province.
Combs is ranked eighth among the most listened-to artists in Quebec since the start of the year, according to the Institute de la statistique du Québec. That reach helps explain why a local performer from Audet, near Lac-Mégantic, can tour a Luke Combs Edition show and treat it as a working part of Quebec’s country circuit rather than a one-off tribute night.
Phil Lauzon and Luke Combs
Lauzon, 35, says he first came across Combs while performing at the Ranch Gagnon in Saint-Évariste-de-Forsyth. The owner asked him, “J’étais au Ranch Gagnon à Saint-Évariste-de-Forsyth, répond-il. Le propriétaire m’avait demandé: “Joues-tu du Luke Combs ?””
He has been on the chansonniers circuit since he was 14 or 15, after his mother bought him his first guitar at age 10. His first shows were in snowmobile clubs as a duo with his sister Karine, which puts his current Combs-centered set in the long arc of a performer who moved from local rooms to a province-wide circuit.
Quebec listeners and Fast Car
Combs has already shown measurable pull in Quebec beyond the current tour dates. His version of “Fast Car,” originally by Tracy Chapman, was the fifth most popular song in the province in 2023, and his 2019 release “Beer Never Broke My Heart” sits inside the recent run that built that audience.
Lauzon’s own pitch for the show is blunt. “Il y en a qui disent que c’est un hommage que je fais, mais c’est plus le show d’un artiste qui tripe sur Luke.” He also says Combs connects because “Luke, ce n’est pas un mannequin. C’est un gars que tu pourrais voir chez nous derrière le volant d’un 53 pieds. C’est tout le contraire des beaux bonhommes du country comme Keith Urban. C’est un gars comme tout le monde.”
Blake in the Set
Lauzon’s reading of Combs is shaped by home as much as by booking logic. He has four children, and his son Blake is 13 and lives with a severe form of autism; Lauzon says he thinks of Blake when he performs “Even Though I’m Leaving.”
That gives the Montreal dates a second layer: Combs is filling Parc Jean-Drapeau on Friday and Saturday, while Lauzon keeps proving there is a local audience for the same material in smaller rooms across Quebec. For a country market that already pushed Combs to No. 8 provincewide, the tribute act is not a sideshow. It is part of the demand.
