101594 Dan Aykroyd and The Blues Brothers Band, Ottawa, ON
On October 15th, 1994 pretty much the whole Blues Brothers Band was assembled onstage…
Tag: national arts centre
101105 Ravi & Anoushka Shankar, Ottawa, ON
It’s really too bad that the great Ravi Shankar is no longer walking this Earth, but every time I hear a sitar I think of him so I suppose in that sense he’s still here. Or there. Or wherever…
100201 Medeski Martin & Wood, Ottawa, ON
On October 2nd, 2001 Medeski Martin & Wood were playing at Ottawa’s National Arts Centre and I had a ticket…
092609 The Tragically Hip, Ottawa, ON
September 26th, 2009 was the first in a three-night run for The Tragically Hip at Ottawa’s National Arts Centre…
091009 CR Avery, Ottawa, ON
On September 10th, 2009 I walked to the National Arts Centre with an excited pep in my step…
052213 NACO plays Led Zeppelin, Ottawa, ON
Sure, Led Zeppelin is one of the greatest guitar-centric, riff-oriented rock bands of all time, but they were also masters of folding lush orchestration into their thunderous, genre-defining catalog…
051113 Big Mama, Ottawa, ON
Though musicals and opera aren’t really my thing sometimes theatre and music can meet up in a way that tickles my entertainment bone, and this show was one of those times…
041405 NACO plays Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Haydn, Ottawa, ON
On April 14th, 2005 I made my way to the National Arts Centre to take in a show featuring Canada’s very talented national orchestra performing long-ago works written by some of the most brilliant minds in the known history of music…
032819 NACO plays The Wizard of Oz, Ottawa, ON
I always love watching the orchestra play along with a movie…
030312 The Barr Brothers, Ottawa, ON
Super-cool dudes, those Barr’s…
