Category Archives: Festivals

Well it’s that time of year again. It’s Christmas morning for Ottawa music festival fans as the 2019 and 25th Anniversary Edition of RBC Bluesfest gets underway in just a few hours. Here’s some picks and our tips if you’re heading down to LeBreton Flats tonight.

One of Canada’s largest birthday parties … Surrey BC outdid themselves this year with 12 straight hours of music on 3 stages …

Canada Day weekend is often one of the busiest weekends of the year as we have teams covering events and festivals across Canada. We’re proudly based in the 1000 Islands region of Ontario so when an event comes around in our home territory we are sure to attend and help spread the word. This summer the annual 1000 Islands Regatta promised an all-star entertainment lineup with headliners Platinum Blonde, Jason Blaine and the Northern Pikes hitting the stage over the weekend with loud and fast hydro-plane racing skimming the water on the St. Lawrence River during the day.

The weather gods atoned for the past two years on Monday by delivering a sunny warm day filled with good cheer, good music, and patriotism.

Tim Horton’s Dragon Boat Festival is an acclaimed sporting and family-friendly event held annually in Ottawa.The Dragon Boat races are the largest in North America, and coupled with the free concerts and activities hosted each day, Mooney’s Bay Park sees an influx of locals and visitors to enjoy the event. This year, the Festival was held June 20th to 23rd, and talent from across Canada were slotted to play four evenings on the Hillside stage.

For more than a quarter century, the month of June brings the Tim Horton’s Dragon Boat Festival to Ottawa.This year’s event takes place from June 20th through 23rd. The annual event hosts 200 teams from across North America who participate in the community, corporate, and competitive races. As the sun sets music fills the air and this summer the first half of the fest was kicked off with Half Moon Run and Alan Doyle.

After managing to avoid a washout on Friday night Mother Nature struck again with force on Saturday. With moderate to heavy rain much of the day the question that was on everyone’s mind was would country fans in Quebec still come out in the rain…?

It’s been quite a week for festival organizers going from losing a headliner to the very real threat that severe weather could silence the music at the fifth anniversary of Festival Country de Lotbinière.

When planning a festival it’s easy to take for granted that everything will go as planned and that the entertainment and logistics will all fall into place. Booking a festival is already a difficult task, that task becomes even more difficult when something doesn’t go as planned. For the organizers of Festival Country Lotbinière the worst case scenario happened this year when tragedy struck for their headliner just a week before the crowds were set to arrive.

Reigning CCMA Group of the Year Cold Creek County are no strangers to the summer festival circuit. From coast to coast to coast Cold Creek County have performed at some of the biggest stages in the country and have toured and performed with acts like Old Dominion and Dallas Smith.