Category Archives: Concert Reviews

This past Saturday night Justin Moore brought his Southern’ drawl to Casino Rama for a packed house.

SATE, the fifty first state. Where the status quo, inhibitions, and rules do not apply. Everyone should spend time with SATE, to reenergize their world.

On Friday night the fine folks over at Boots & Bourbon played host to yet another CMW Event.  This time around it was a lil’ more country than earlier in the week. With the line up including Petric, Domino, River Town Saints, Chris Lane and of course Cold Creek County.

It was late summer 1991, I remember the buzz surrounding this new alternative band that all my friends were talking about called Pearl Jam. I grew up in small town Northern Ontario and the only radio station in town, although multi-genre, would never play anything by a band like Pearl Jam so I took a leap of faith and bought their debut album…Ten.  I was hooked, I loved everything about it. The sound, the lyrics…everything it was, at the time anyway, groundbreaking. On Sunday night Eddie Vedder, Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament and Dave Krusen took me and about 15,000 other fans on a trip down memory lane at Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa.

Our friends, over at Jones Entertainment Group, know how to throw a party as they have shown us year after year with Rock the Park Music Festival in London, Ontario. However, they just proved it doesn’t have to be the middle of summer to throw a party.

It’s been almost a year and a half since New Country 94 arrived in Ottawa and one thing is clear, they are doing everything in their power to help fun remember Ottawa and if the party they had on Thursday was any indication…it’s working!

The Lad Classic are an energetic rock foursome out of the Toronto area and I was able to catch them in Hamilton at This Ain’t Hollywood.

KX Country and Boots & Hearts teamed up to bring the biggest Country Show to CMW.  With the likes of red hot Meghan Patrick and a band that had by far one of the best performances of last years Boots and Hearts Festival with Blackjack Billy taking the headlining honours.  For those of you that were part of that 30,000+ Kick off party you will know that the boys in BJB tore the roof off the Front Porch stage on that beautiful Thursday night.  

London’s premier live music club, the London Music Hall, was rocking to the sounds of the mid 1990’s on Monday night with alternative rockers Collective Soul. The Georgia based band brought it’s, “See What You Started by Continuing Tour”, to town.