[Ottawa correspondent Ross MacDonald swears this the last dispatch. – AC] A strange anomaly happened at Ottawa’s Bluesfest on Friday 14 July. Festival organizers had booked pop artists on the main stage, and
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[Ottawa correspondent Ross MacDonald had a chance for a sit-down during Bluesfest. – AC] Just ahead of their show opening for Foo Fighters at Ottawa Bluesfest, A Journal of Musical Things sat down
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[Photos by Ross MacDonald and the review is from Karen Coughtrey. – AC] One thing about Ottawa Bluesfest https://ottawabluesfest.ca/ is that they have a knack of picking the perfect acts to close out
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[More reporting from Ross MacDonald (photos) and Karen Coughtrey (text). – AC] The Ottawa weather, including the very serious tornado that touched down in one of its largest growing suburbs, tried to take
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[Ross MacDonald (photos) and Karen Coughtrey (text) are covering things for us. – AC] Ottawa Bluesfest day 4 on the mainstage was one for Millenials. The nostalgia kicked in right away as Montreal
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[A final post from Ottawa Bluesfest from Ross MacDonald (text) and Karen Coughtrey (words). -AC] The last day of the 2022 edition of Ottawa Bluesfest got off to a moving start with one
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[More from Ottawa Bluesfest with Ross MacDonald (photos) and Karen Coughtrey (text). – AC] Opening on Day 7 of Ottawa’s Bluesfest was American singer/songwriter Lucy Dacus. Although many in the crowd could be
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Bluesfest was the place to be in Ottawa Friday night, as this city has waited years for the chance to be in the presence of legendary rock band Rage Against The Machine. It
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[Another report from on-the-ground correspondents Ross MacDonald (text) and Karen Coughtrey (text). – AC] Ottawa Bluesfest night four got off to a rocking start on the RBC mainstage with Ottawa rocker Sophia Radisch.
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[Correspondents Ross MacDonald (photos) and Karen Coughtrey (text) are covering the event for us. – AC] R&B artist Nambi & The Rhythm (an Ottawa-born singer-songwriter) opened the second night of Bluesfest on the
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[After a hiatus induced by COVID, Ottawa Bluesfest starts next week. Correspondent Ross MacDonald has this preview. And yes, there are still tickets available including for the Rage Against the Machine performance. –
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