Bluesfest

 

 
 
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Bluesfest fans who dig free music can dig Doc Walker and Taj Mahal during this year’s ByWard Market portion of Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

From the Archive

New policy for buying alcohol at Bluesfest

Ottawa's Bluesfest opens tonight with a new policy for fans buying alcoholic beverages.


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Chickpea Curry

Bluesfest stars go frugal on food

Excesses of past are over. This year’s acts will get wholesome, home-style fare


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Bluesfest Auction

Ottawa artists capture the glory of Bluesfest, and raise money for charity.

You may have seen Jim Kohan at Bluesfest, hunched over his iPhone, screen setting his face aglow as ...


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Who's Coming, When

 

 
 
 

Reviews

 

 
Setzer

Swingin’ Setzer struts his stuff in front of unusually sparse crowds

Perhaps because Brian Setzer isn’t exactly a household name, the prospect of seeing the former Stray...


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Paul Stanley (left) and Tommy Thayer at the Bell Centre Monday night.

Review: Kiss in Montreal

Halloween came early this year. The Bell Centre was filled to the rafters Monday night, with a sellout...


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Legendary rockers KISS perform July 11, 2009 at the Colosseum at Caesars Windsor.

Review: Kiss in Windsor

WINDSOR, Ont. -- "All right, Caesars Windsor! You wanted the best, you got the best! The hottest band...


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Reader's Corner

 

Entertainment

Matisyahu

A musical mission: meeting Matisyahu

On July 11, the afternoon rain had turned Lebreton Flats into a messy, muddy expanse.


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Multimedia

 
 

 

The Big Beat

The Big Beat with Peter Simpson


 

The Big Beat

The Big Beat with Peter Simpson


 
 
 

Bluesfest on Twitter

 
 
David Warren

Poets, monsters and visionaries

Among passages from Ezra Pound that I can never get out of my head is a short stanza from his magnificent suite, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (Life and Contacts).

 
Randall Denley

Consultants tell city: tighten your Greenbelt

A new study done for the City of Ottawa invites councillors to choose between logic and worshipping a sacred cow. Anyone want to guess which way they will go?

 
 
 
 
 
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