090612 Ben Harper/Missy Burgess, Ottawa, ON
On September 6th, 2012 I had the great pleasure of listening the wonderful wooden blues of Mr. Benjamin Chase Harper played on his tone-a-licious Weissenborn guitar…
Tag: Ottawa Folk Festival
083098 Arlo Guthrie/David Essig/The Wyrd Sisters, Ottawa, ON
It’s written in my ticket album that I went to the Ottawa Folk Festival at Britannia Park on August 30th, 1998…
082711 Colin Hay/JJ Grey & Mofro/Kim Churchill/Tom Morello, Ottawa, ON
On August 27th, 2011 I eagerly cycled down to the beautiful Hog’s Back Park for a busy Saturday packed with music courtesy of the newly Bluesfested Ottawa Folk Festival…
082511 Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers/Justin Townes Earle/The Punch Brothers, Ottawa, ON
On August 25th, 2011 I went to Hog’s Back Park for opening night of the Ottawa Folk Festival’s inaugural year in their new location, just a pleasant bike ride along the canal and through the forest…
092015 Wilco/Built To Spill, Ottawa, ON
September 20th, 2015 was the last night of the Ottawa Folk Festival…er…Cityfolk…
090712 Lindsay Buckingham, Ottawa, ON
I ask you, what could be finer than cycling along a UNESCO World Heritage site, through the campus of my old alma mater and along the gurgling Rideau River to Hog’s Back Park on a warm Indian Summer evening to hear the wonderful Lindsay Buckingham play the guitar…
082403 Trout Fishing in America/Jane Siberry, Ottawa, ON
I’m not sure exactly what date I might have attended the 2003 Ottawa Folk Festival but a little research suggests it might have been August 24th, for it was on that day that Jane Siberry and Trout Fishing in America played…
052998 Stephen Fearing, Ottawa, ON
On May 29th, 1998 I walked to the Canadian Museum of Nature to see Stephen Fearing. This was in the days before Fearing created Blackie & The Rodeo Kings with his buddies Tom Wilson and Colin Linden and this would mark the only time I saw Stephen Fearing play a solo show (so far)…
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