La Nuit sur l'étang is a Canadian music festival, held annually in Sudbury, Ontario.
[1] Established in 1973 by Fernand Dorais and a group of students from Laurentian University who were established as the Coopérative des artistes du Nouvel-Ontario, the festival presents a concert program of francophone musical artists over a night.
[3] The festival also stages an annual competition for new and emerging Franco-Ontarian bands, La Brunante.
The winner of each year's La Brunante is given a slot on the Nuit sur l'étang bill.
[4] The festival offices moved in 2022 to the new Place des Arts facility in downtown Sudbury.