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New Noovo web series shines spotlight on emerging artists

MONTREAL — Bell Media’s Noovo.ca today launched Plaisir coupant (Cutting Pleasure), a new original web series hosted by pop’n’roll singer-songwriter Simon Kearney (above) that brings together food and music in a colourful way while showcasing emerging Quebec artists. In this seven-episode series, Kearney welcomes an artist to his home on Île d’Orléans to cook “and each episode inevitably ends in the recording studio,” explains an English translation of Bell Media’s French press release. “Accompanied by a mystery guest, these music enthusiasts take up one of the songs of the artist in the spotlight by adding a flavour to it… Plaisir coupant!”...