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The iconic guitarist from joined a popular '80s band on stage, surprising fans with their epic performance at the Ottawa ...
In Canada (in North America, in fact), there are few better live music opportunities than Ottawa Bluesfest, which just ...
Mark Monahan, the co-founder and executive director of Bluesfest, found himself at this year’s festival casting back a couple of decades to the event’s four-year stint at Ottawa City Hall.
If you’ve seen a cloud of bubbles floating above Ottawa Bluesfest crowds, it’s probably Michael Lalonde. It all started at a ...
Def Leppard sent the Ottawa Bluesfest crowd back to the 80s during the hit-packed main-stage concert that kicked off the ...
The show went on at Ottawa Bluesfest on Saturday during what Environment Canada labelled as a heat warning. The federal ...
Returning to the capital for the third time in under three years, the Toronto-based jazz/hip-hop fusionists — drummer ...
D.B. Cohen, Funk Yo Self and We Were Sharks are some of the local acts selected to play Ottawa Bluesfest in 2025 ...
"Hi, we're the Decemberists and we'll do our best to compete with Def Leppard" seems like a strange opening credo from a band ...
There’s a new word floating around social media that describes Ottawa Bluesfest perfectly. Polyjamorous is an adjective that mashes up “poly,” which is a prefix for many, “jam,” as in musical jams, ...
The string of new-generation headliners at Ottawa Bluesfest continued Saturday with an ambitious main-stage showing by ...
OBJ and Invest Ottawa have partnered to create this recurring feature that will feature up-and-coming tech startups in the nation’s capital.