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…
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092492 NACO Plays Rossini, Brahms and Dvorak, Ottawa, ON
I suspect that this ticket from September 24th, 1992 marks the first time ever I saw the NAC Orchestra perform…
072510 NACO Plays Gershwin, Mendelssohn, Estacio, and Prokofiev, Ottawa, ON
To my knowledge this is the only time the National Arts Centre Orchestra held a concert series on the festival site in front of the War Museum and I’m not sure why; it was a great show…
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…
041511 Bruce Cockburn, Ottawa
On April 15th, 2011 I saw Bruce Cockburn at the soft-seat hexagon that is the National Arts Centre. It’s a pretty great room to see a performer like Cockburn, that is once you manage to get up and down the unforgivable slanted staircases that run throughout the venue in strict adherence to the architects apparent love of the six-sided polygon…
032407 NACO Plays The Wizard of Oz, Ottawa, ON
I went to the show, Dorothy and her pals were victorious, that sneaky little wizard learned a thing or two as did that wicked old witch, the orchestra was as great as usual, and of course those flying monkeys freaked me right out…
022516 NACO Plays Queen, Ottawa, ON
On February 25th, 2016 I went to the National Arts Centre for We Are The Champions; The Music Of Queen. It was part of their annual Pops series and despite the title of the show I knew exactly what I was in for…
021508 NACO Plays Cole Porter, Ottawa, ON
The National Arts Centre Orchestra playing the Cole Porter songbook is the very definition of a Pops concert. Hearing such skilled musical technicians trained so well in the classics pull their bows over one of Tin Pan Alley’s greatest heroes is precisely the sort of thing…
011908 Tiempo Libre, Ottawa, ON
What could be a better antidote to the blistering cold of winter in Ottawa than an evening of Cuban music in the comfy warmth of the National Arts Centre? Well, probably many things if I’m being completely honest…
