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Winter blues wiped away with Ottawa Bluesfest announcement
By Emily Plunkett on March 8, 2019
With the fields of Lebreton Flats still under a foot of snow, the warm reminder that RBC Ottawa Bluesfest is just around the corner is...
Tara Shannon takes to the City Stage at RBC Ottawa Bluesfest
By Emily Plunkett on June 26, 2018
Tara Shannon’s triumphant return to the stages of Ottawa is set to include an opening spot at the 2018 edition of RBC Ottawa Bluesfest. Performing...
Foo Fighters and Dave Matthews Band set for Ottawa Bluefest
By Emily Plunkett on February 15, 2018
As Ottawa trudges through another cold and unforgiving winter, the city’s largest music festival rolled out its summer lineup this week. For the 2018 edition...
Postcards from Lebreton Flats – Day by day reflections of Ottawa Bluesfest (Part 5)
By Emily Plunkett on July 21, 2017
If I am to be honest, by the time the final day of Bluesfest rolled around, a lot of people were just burnt out. Between...
Postcards from Lebreton Flats – Day by day reflections of Ottawa Bluesfest (Part 4)
By Emily Plunkett on July 16, 2017
Part four: July 13 It was a tale of two very different festivals Thursday evening at Bluesfest; at least from what I understand through word...
Postcards from Lebreton Flats – Day by day reflections of Ottawa Bluesfest (Part 3)
By Emily Plunkett on July 14, 2017
Part three: July 11 and July 12 As someone who both volunteers and works as a photographer at Bluesfest, I find it extremely necessary to...
Postcards from Lebreton Flats – Day by day reflections of Ottawa Bluesfest (Part 2)
By Emily Plunkett on July 11, 2017
Part two: July 9 and July 10 The first weekend of Bluesfest was a weird, wonderful mix of lazy festival wandering, general music appreciation, and...
Postcards from Lebreton Flats – Day by day reflections of Ottawa Bluesfest
By Emily Plunkett on July 8, 2017
Part one: July 6 and July 7 Well, another year, and another Bluesfest has gotten under way. It’s always a busy, buzzing time of year...
The City that Fun Forgot? The exhilaration of Ottawa’s music festivals in the Sesquicentennial year
By Emily Plunkett on May 12, 2017
OTTAWA, ON – They say that Ottawa is the city that fun forgot, and there is some truth to that. Just this week there was...
Five Questions With Sparrows
By Jenna Melanson on January 23, 2017
Photo Credit: Kieran Meyn Toronto, ON based post-hardcore band, Sparrows is made up of Dan Thomson, Jon Busby, Justin Sears and Kevin Dennison. The band...
New tour dates released by Marianas Trench
By Amanda Hather on April 28, 2015
By: Amanda Hather Vancouver pop rockers Marianas Trench are finally hitting the roads after a long winter of sticking to the studio and writing for...