My mother had quite the collection of vinyl records and there was always a variety of music playing at our house ever since I was a baby, anywhere from blues to jazz to classical, from rocknroll to punk to folk music.
Kelsea Ballerini Makes Waves With “Legends”
“Close our eyes and took on the world together”
The PepTides and Caravan Palace get the Ottawa Jazz Fest dancing.
The Ottawa weather hasn’t really been spoiling the Jazz Fest crowd this year, having had thunder, lightning and pouring rain almost every night, but even tonight some faithful festival goers brought out their lawn chairs and party hats and headed to the City Hall’s Tartan Home Stage and Confederation Park’s TekSavvy Main Stage for some live music.
The 105th Grey Cup Festival arriving to Ottawa!
Lansdowne will be transformed this November as RNation welcomes OurNation to Ottawa for the 105th Grey Cup Festival presented by Shaw. The celebrations leading up to the CFL’s annual championship game will feature live music, community events, big team parties, family fun and more.
Performance in the Park 2017: A celebration of Canadian music Day 2
Rain, rain, go away…
Performance in the Park –
Photo by Wornleathermedia
CKY, The Wild! and more rock the Babylon
Monday nights in Ottawa are not necessarily the most successful nights for live shows, but this past Monday was clearly an exception. The Diamond Mine Agency had brought a five band set to the jam packed Babylon, with the American rock band CKY as its headliner, Kelowna’s The Wild!, Toronto’s Old James and two opening acts from Ottawa.
The Wild! heading out on North American tour.
Kelowna rockers The Wild! have just released their second album Wild At Heart in February, and are heading out on a two month long tour this summer. The tour consist of ten Canadian dates with Pennsylvania band CKY as well as 27 shows across the U.S. with the heavy metal super group Adrenaline Mob.
1000 Islands Regatta announces All-Star 2017 Entertainment Lineup
For the last 10 years the 1000 Islands Regatta has been a staple event along the shores of the St. Lawrence River in Brockville. Each year organizers take it up just one more notch when it comes to their entertainment and after last year’s success with Canadian rocker Kim Mitchell organizers promised that 2017 would be even better to celebrate Canada’s 150th Birthday and today it was announced that they kept their promise!
Surround the World – Unique collaborative music video
The music and lyrics for Surround the World were written by Oren Sharon. The unique video is compilation of 51 different different female singers from around the world singing the lyrics.
Big Wreck shows the Iconic Barrymore’s they still know how to rock a crowd
It’s a difficult task, getting a crowd out on a Monday night in Ottawa. Especially when it’s a freezing rain kind of night. As I arrived at Barrymore’s on an especially miserable winter evening, I was pleasantly surprised to see that Ottawa was pumped and ready to party on a school night.
