This is my third year attending the Polaris Music Prize 2018 Gala. Congratulations to Jeremy Dutcher on winning this year’s prize for his album Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa. Here is what went down this year. Weaves was the first band to perform. Playing the songs Law and Panda and Wide Open. Absolute wonderful performance considering they were …
Cityfolk‘s Marvest are free shows that happen on the Friday night and Saturday part of the festival in the Glebe area. The focus of Marvest is to present Ottawa with a feast of locally produced music. I got to present the show at Purple Urchin and performing was Remaclara and Muzzy Legault. Check out the …
Didn’t want to miss this show at St. Alban’s Church on September 14, 2018. Sadly I missed Gianna Lauren‘s set but I will give it an imaginary 8/10 from what my friends told me about her set. Made it on time for Julie Doiron & The Wooden Stars. They reunited to do a really short …
Here is the rundown from day 3 of CityFolk Festival 2018. Kicking off the City Stage at 6pm was 54-40. Their performance was an unplugged affair with arrangements from acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin and others for a reimagining of the band’s greatest hit. 7/10. Flint Eastwood was the first band to perform at Ravenlaw Stage. …
No doubt Day 2 of CityFolk Festival 2018 was definitely my favorite for who was performing that night. Started off with tUne-YaRds at 6pm. While it was early there was no way I was missing out. Considering the last time she was in Ottawa was in 2009 before she got really big. Impressive set which …
The last time I went and covered CityFolk Festival was in 2014 when the festival was at Hog’s Back . Why I kept missing CityFolk was because the festival happened at the same time as Pop Montreal (This year’s Pop is now at the end of September). So I finally got to check out the …
Ottawa Architecture Week 2018 kicked off their opening party with a vernissage of Daniel F. Effah‘s photographs and discussion on affordable housing. His works explore the issue through a series of photographs centering on the lives of the people currently facing eviction in the Herongate neighborhood in south Ottawa. Check out the photos from the …
Have a listen to the September 10, 2018 edition of No Filter on CHUO 89.1 FM. Played my picks for CityFolk Festival which is happening on September 12 – 16. Also my 5 picks on Polaris Music Prize shortlisted albums Hour One: Hour Two: PLAYLIST: David Byrne – I Dance Like This Andy Shauf – …
Eduardo Brechó from São Paulo, Brazil played a wonderful DJ set at Mercury Lounge on September 8, 2018. Mixing Afro-Brazilian Soul, Disco, Brazilian rare grooves, Yoruba & Candonblé tracks to get people dancing on the dancefloor. Trevor Walker Random images
Definitely a loud show at Black Squirrel Books on September 7, 2018. Ottawashowbox presented The Famines, Boonie Doon and Deathsticks. Insanely loud garage rock set and it was their surprise paper release for Complete Collected Singles 2014-2017. – 9/10 It was a librarian-themed set for Ottawa’s Bonnie Doon. As always they performed a fun post-punk …