062108 Buddy DeFranco, Ottawa, ON
It drives me bonkers when people moan that a band doesn’t fit the genre of the festival that booked them…
Tag: Ottawa Jazz Festival
062014 Richa Sharma/Autorickshaw, Ottawa, ON
On June 20th, 2014 Ottawa’s annual jazz festival started up for another season and of course there I was…
062911 Paco de Lucía, Ottawa, ON
Paco was a breakthrough virtuoso musician who became the poster child for his discipline…
062814 Aretha Franklin/Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Ottawa, ON
After a lifetime of yearning and a year of waiting, on June 28th, 2014 I finally got to see the incomparable Aretha Franklin perform live…
062515 Steve Miller/Ikebe Shakedown, Ottawa, ON
I wonder what it must be like to be Steve Miller…
062611 Soulive, Ottawa, ON
On June 26th, 2011 I headed down to the Ottawa Jazz Festival for a short evening of tall entertainment…
062015 Bruce Cockburn/The Roots, Ottawa, ON
I gotta say, the 2015 edition of the Ottawa jazz festival was pretty stacked…
062516 John Scofield and Joe Lovano/Sarah McLachlan, Ottawa, ON
This may have been my only time seeing Sarah McLachlan…
062407 Bill Frisell, Ottawa, ON
Despite what the ticket indicates I recall this show being a trio…
041705 Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Ottawa, ON
I’m pretty sure that April 17th, 2005 was the first time I attended a concert at the Dominion-Chalmers Church…
Todd Man Out 