Reading Time: 2 minutesPlant’s new style of music is hard to pin down. The easiest descriptor is world music. For Led Zeppelin fans, it’s a totally different type of music, but it’s apparent the seeds of Plant’s new output were there back in his old days, too.
Reading Time: 3 minutesCityFolk, if you look at its name, might not seem like the place to go wild on a Saturday night, but it was the hottest place to be in the city this weekend. Day 3 of the festival ranged from sultry soul to high-energy trap, proving that even a folk festival can be sexy.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOur Lady Peace’s Summersault tour stopped in Ottawa this weekend for CityFolk Festival. The Canadian rockers are still going strong after more than 25 years of touring.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe annual festival runs from Sept. 12-15 in Lansdowne Park
Reading Time: 2 minutes“The festival really started with a single goal: let’s celebrate womxn artists. As a group of local artists, this is something we’d all felt for a few years—that desire to celebrate and connect with other female (and) genderqueer artists.”—Monica Bradford-Lea.
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe festival was dominated by major indie folk acts like Father John Misty and Canada’s own Broken Social Scene, while more authentic folk acts included Rodriguez and Fred Penner, but most fell in-between—very coffee shop music.
Reading Time: 2 minutesSaturday’s itinerary consisted of 17 acts on three different stages, including Canada’s own Fred Penner, Basia Bulat, and The New Pornographers.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe annual festival, which returns to Lansdowne Park this month from Sept. 15 to 18, boasts a line-up ranging from folk to rock to hip-hop, with everything in between.
Reading Time: 3 minutesUnlike its sister festival RBC Ottawa Bluesfest, which gets less and less bluesy every year, CityFolk was filled with folk acts big and small.
Reading Time: 2 minutesCityFolk, formerly known as Ottawa Folk Festival, is an annual festival that began 21 years ago by Max Wallace, a former station manager of Carleton University’s CKCU-FM radio station, Ottawa-based singer-songwriter Chris White, and a community of volunteers. The festival has grown from its humble roots on Ottawa’s Victoria Island to its new home at Lansdowne Park, next to TD Place.
