[Afropop] It's festival season in Montreal! The Afropop team has just returned from the 39th Nuits D'Afrique Festival, and there will be lots of reporting rolling out from our thrilling five days of music and interviews there. But first, our correspondent Ron Deutsch, who summers in Montreal, offers this report on the Montreal Jazz Festival. If you've never experienced this city's festival events--many of them outdoors and free to the public--start making plans for 2026. It will be the 40thedition of Nuits