Tagged: Ottawa Bluesfest

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RBC Ottawa Bluesfest – Day 6.

Day 6. Tonight’s Headliner: The Killers Weather: Cool & Sunny. Today’s Acts: Tyler the Creator: Gloriously vulgar. Tyler the Creator is an antagonist – trolling the crowd into a frenzy. He’s unconventional on stage, but his charisma and connection with...

Simon Green - Bonobo

RBC Ottawa Bluesfest – Day 2.

Day 2. Headliner: Zedd Weather: Perfect. Today’s Acts: Darius Rucker: Former lead singer from Hootie and the Blowfish, Darius Rucker was the only pure country act on the lineup tonight. Lyrics aside, actually reminded me a bit of Toby Keith....

Passion Pit - RBC Ottawa Bluesfest 2013

RBC Ottawa Bluesfest – Day 6 executive summary

Day 6 – Weezer Wednesday. Killer Mike: Sometimes, technical difficulties actually make a show amazing. This has happened twice in my life: Coldplay @ Bell Centre in Montreal (guitar broke – had to re-start their biggest hit twice) and yesterday...

Wu Tang Clan

RBC Bluesfest – Day 4 executive summary

Sunday night @ottawabluesfest. Fun. headlining. The Joy Formidable: The show of the festival thus far. I liked this band before the day started, and now I love them. The Welsh threesome brought some serious power, noise, and beauty in a...

Frank Turner Performs at RBC Ottawa Bluesfest

RBC Bluesfest – Day 2 executive summary

Day 2. Friday night on Lebreton Flats. Camera Obscura: Holy crap – is this band good! Admittedly, I only caught 3 songs of this set to open the night – but they were all amazing – pitch perfect and surprisingly...

RBC Royal Bank Bluesfest – Day 1 by the numbers.

Tonight’s Main Stage Headliner: Tiësto Party factor: 6. An excellent warm-up, but not into legendary status. Band 1 was: Ottawa’s own Loon Choir. They are definitely Arcade Fire fans – and it shows (that is a compliment). Big sound and last-day-on-earth...