On November 29, 2018, OAG helped celebrate the 45th anniversary of the Firestone Collection of Canadian Art on becoming public. The event bought together Mayor Jim Watson, Brenda Firestone, eldest child of the late O.J. Firestone and Isobel Firestone, along with OAG Board of Directors Chair Victor Duret and Director and CEO Alexandra Badzak. All …
Second night this week at Babylon Nightclub but this time it was a rock affair with The Dirty Nil, Dead Soft and Warp Lines. Started off the show with Ottawa’s Warp Lines. Banging out some indie garage punk music. Sounded like they were previewing new materials. 7/10. Second band to perform was Vancouver’s Dead Soft …
American rapper Murs performed at Vancouver’s Fox Cabaret on November 26, 2018. Photograph was taken by Céline Pinget. Check out the photos.
bülow and Vi at Babylon Nightclub on November 27, 2018. Ottawa’s Vi started off the show with some electro-pop hip-hop music. 7/10. Closing and headlining was bülow. It was a nice entertaining set of cool pop music. 7/10. Check out the photos.
Wonderful Monday night show at St. Alban’s Church with Richard Reed Parry and Corwin Fox. Formerly from Ottawa now living in Cumberland, British Columbia, Corwin Fox began the show with some Canadian roots folk music. Lots of story telling about his life living in Ottawa and now in BC. It was a nice intimate set …
Definitely one of my favorite shows before 2018 ends. Protomartyr, Preoccupations and Rattle played at The 27 Club on November 24, 2018. It was part of their November/December tour and Ottawa was the second stop. So I was arrived about half-way during the British drum duo Rattle. It was an unbelievable set of these two …
Ottawa’s most anticipated and longest running indie sale Idle Hands Art, Craft and Vintage celebrated 10 years today! With that the annual holiday sale took place at St. Anthony Banquet Hall situated in Ottawa’s Little Preston St. Having missed out last year, there was no way I would miss out their 10th anniversary. Featuring local …
Wonderful show at Irene’s Pub with Mauno, Fenster and JK3 on November 23, 2018. Ottawa’s JK3 kicked off the show with some cool jazz funky music. The drummer Jeff Kingsbury did a funny pre-recorded portion about the band with a monotone voice. Great way to warm up the crowd. 8/10. Berlin’s Fenster was second and …
November’s edition of Creative Mornings Ottawa took place at Andaz Hotel in the Byward Market. The theme is Restart and the speaker was Robert Smith who is the founder and creative director of Greenmelon Inc. The core of the talk will centre around adapting existing skills and processes into new careers and endeavours. The setbacks …
When the NAC announced their fall season for 2018 and Electronic act A Tribe Called Red was on the list. People were wondering how they were going to pull off a show in the Babs Asper Theatre where it was going to sit your butt kind of show? They added special guest Jeremy Dutcher, respectfulchild …