Mercury Lounge turned 22 years old on November 3, 2018. Every year they hold their annual Epic Red Party to help celebrate with past/present residents DJ since 1996: Trevor Walker, Lance Baptiste, Jeff Laprate and Balu It was a wonderful night of dancing and celebrating a great venue in the market.
Hadn’t been to the Blacksheep Inn in a long time. When I heard that Rich Aucoin was going to perform, there was no way I wouldn’t want to miss it. Thank goodness I found a friend who was willing to drive up and totally have a blast with his music! Taylor Knox started off the …
It was a bittersweet goodbye to Montreal’s Young Galaxy at the 27 Club on October 6, 2018. Who are one of my favorite Canadian acts in the past 10 years. No, they aren’t breaking up, it is more of a hiatus and wanting to focus on other projects. Apparently, Ottawa was the only night where …
Check out the photos from Rae Spoon, respectfulchild and Fire Queen @ The 27 Club. Fire Queen – 8/10. respectfulchild – 8/10. Rae Spoon – 8/10.
Sorry for the delay. Here are the photos that I took of people I know and randoms who was at the Polaris Music Prize Gala on September 17, 2018.
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 …
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
On the last day of FME (Festival de Musique Emergente). Started off by heading to Parc Bontanique A Fleur D’Eau for an afternoon show with Montreal’s Chances. Wonderful set outside with their electro-pop rock music. Give their performance 9/10. Alexandra Stréliski performed at Agora Des Arts with a lovely neo-classical set. Playing tracks from the …
On the third day of FME (Festival de Musique Emergente). It was a rainy Saturday afternoon and the family show that was supposed to take place outside was moved into the Petit Theatre du Vieux Noranda. I got there to see Montreal’s Corridor. Children running around during their was kind of interesting and funny to …