Unlike its sister festival RBC Ottawa Bluesfest, which gets less and less bluesy every year, CityFolk was filled with folk acts big and small.
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CityFolk, 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.
Smith Romero says she is looking forward to providing students with only high quality shows. Upcoming events at the restaurant feature artists from Ottawa, the Yukon, Los Angeles, Toronto, and San Francisco.
Yours, Dreamily, streams a distorted flow of sound that can feel melancholy and fleeting at times, but captures moments of revelation. With an assortment of sounds throughout the album, grimy guitar solos and the familiar harsh tones of the Black Keys can be heard, especially in “The Arc”.
Almost 30 minutes after the scheduled start time, a platform of lights lowered towards the Bell stage at Ottawa’s 2015 RBC Royal Bank Bluesfest and Kanye West finally walked out. The antsy crowd instantly forgave West’s tardiness as the familiar beats of his 2007 hit “Stronger” pounded out of the speakers.
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A preview of the 2015 RBC Ottawa Bluesfest.
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A look back at the 2015 Juno Awards hosted in Hamilton, Ont.
Unity for Action’s Behind Those Eyes brilliantly addressed issues while entertaining the crowd.
The queen of R&B Jully Black stops by Ottawa for a night of fun while raising money for an important cause.
How Drake’s new mixtape represents a shifting trend in the corporate side of the music industry and an effort to raise record sales.
Megaphono, the first of it’s kind, inaugural festival hit Ottawa for an interesting concept for fans and musicians alike.
Whether you know it or not, you’ve probably seen Amanda Lowe.
Long time friends and coworkers share what it’s like being women in the Ottawa music scene.
When asked how he could possibly top the controversy associated with the “Animals” music video, Levine said he already has something in the works.
When she isn’t inspiring tomorrow’s generation of young environmental lawyers to work in one of the most challenging fields of Canadian law, Professor Lynda Collins playing her music all across the continent.
I don’t dislike Christmas, but this genre of music always makes me rethink my opinion of the holiday season. It is the worst kind of music: it’s unoriginal, it’s ridiculously commercialized, and it’s sometimes utterly horrifying.
One of Ottawa’s own rootsy rock singers played for students at the University of Ottawa who continues to make music his work and passion.
For an institution that’s devoted to rock music, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame doesn’t seem to reflect the views of the fans and musicians it purports to represent.
The next event for the SFUO’s Bike Co-op involves a lot of music, glow sticks, and Halloween spookiness.
A new group at U of O allows students to watch opera by demand.
King Tuff’s latest album Black Moon Spell hits it’s sophomore slump.
