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…
Tag: national arts centre
031195 Joe Cocker/Keb’ Mo’, Ottawa, ON
It’s apropos that Cocker played the NAC…
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…
021006 NACO featuring Vadim Repin plays Shostakovich, Bach, and Haydn, Ottawa, ON
Contrary to the information provided on the stub this concert did not include conductor Pinchas Zukerman. In his place was a Dutch conductor named Kees Bakel…
112003 John Prine, Ottawa, ON
On November 20th, 2003 I had the great pleasure of seeing the late, great John Prine…
110696 Lyle Lovett, Ottawa, ON
My first experience with Lyle Lovett dropped my jaw…
110118 Royal Winnipeg Ballet performs Vespers, 1610, Ottawa, ON
Capping a brief flirtation with modern dance I attended my third ballet performance of the year at the National Arts Centre on November 1st, 2018…
110715 Tom Waits Tribute, Ottawa, ON
The show was a Tom Waits tribute called Tom Songs From A Drunken Piano, and it featured the crème de la crème of the Ottawa music scene…
110110 Experience Hendrix, Ottawa, ON
On November 1st, 2010 I went to the National Arts Centre to see the Widdly Widdly Pentatonic Minor Legacy Cash-In Guitar Wankfest Extravaganza Experience…
050219 NACO featuring Miloš Karadaglić/Howard Shore, Ottawa, ON
On May 2nd, 2019 I was pleasantly surprised to receive an offer to join a friend for a concert featuring a new guitar concerto commissioned by Alexander Shelley and the NAC Orchestra…
