Lights, colours, music and movement. With the theme “Montreal and Its Contrasts,” this carnivalesque parade of 1,500 dancers, performers, singers and musicians marched up Saint-Laurent Boulevard to the sounds of jazz, folk, country, samba and other exotic rhythms. Hockey masks, snowmen, Mount Royal, the Jacques Cartier Bridge and other props and set elements were carried by the participants while musicians jammed together every step of the way.