071205 ZZ Top/Buckwheat Zydeco, Ottawa, ON
July 12th, 2005 started out like any regular day…
Tag: Ottawa Bluesfest
071517 Xavier Rudd/Muse/Busty & The Bass/Campbell Brothers/Delicate Steve, Ottawa, ON
After years of astounding Bluesfest lineups we Ottawa live music fans had become quite spoiled…
071617 Tom Petty/Be In The Band Showcase, Ottawa, ON
Tom Petty’s songs are American icons in sonic form…
071512 The Trews, Ottawa, ON
2012 was an odd summer for me festival-wise…
070603 Gord Downie and The Country of Miracles, Ottawa, ON
It’s funny how skipping through existence at the mercy of linear time forces us to walk around in such a fog…
070911 The Tragically Hip/Shpongle/Spam Allstars/Erykah Badu/Michael Powers/Larry McCray/Shawn McDonald, Ottawa, ON
Writing daily reviews for the Ottawa Bluesfest wasn’t all unicorns and rainbows…
071309 Stone Temple Pilots/Great Lake Swimmers with Serena Ryder/Tom Fun Orchestra, Ottawa, ON
The Maverick’s crowd watched in rapt attention as mainstage headliner Serena Ryder sat in with the Great Lake Swimmers for the last half of their quietly intense set…
070716 Joe Jackson/Billy Idol, Ottawa, ON
One of the great things about festivals is how they take a bunch of acts that you would never buy a stand-alone ticket for and bundle them together into a surprisingly attractive pile…
071304 Bryan Adams, Ottawa, ON
For a guy who managed to shoot the video for (Everything I Do) I Do It For You with a straight face, Bryan Adams can rock…
071018 Foo Fighters/Greta Van Fleet, Ottawa, ON
There’s a reason why the Fooeys garnered the biggest crowd Bluesfest has ever seen…
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