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Thursday, March 11, 2010 • 06:43 pm

Music Guide

From classical to underground, Ottawa has a thriving music scene. Our proximity to Montreal and Toronto sometimes means we don't get the "big names" performing in our city, but on the other hand we've cultivated a strong independent scene of our own.
See also: Arts & Entertainment Guide, Festivals Guide

News & Events & Blogs

• ArtsAlive.ca
  From the National Arts Centre: Learn about orchestral music, dance, English and French language theatre, and explore engaging archival collections.
• Arts Court
  Ottawa's centre for the performing, visual, literary and media arts.
• Classical Music Sentinel
• CLive Canadian Concert Listings
• >Dial 6-1-3_ (music blog)
• DJs / disc jockeys
• Face the Music (Lynn Saxberg blog)
• Hip Hop Canada
• i (heart) music (blog / reviews)
• Meet New Players
• Mocking Music (blog)
• MW Music Review Blog
• National Capital Rock (blog)
• The Ottawa Arts Newsletter
• Opus Pocus Classical Music Calendar
  Classical music is extremely popular in Ottawa throughout the year. If you're a fan, a great way to keep on top of the scene is with this site, run by music fan Richard Todd.
• Ottawa Blues This Week
• Ottawa Blues, Jazz & Swing Guide
  If you're one of those people who complain that Ottawa's annual Bluesfest has too much "non-blues" content, then check out this site. Updated by local music fan Jim Roy, he publishes weekly updates of all of the blues events taking place in and around Ottawa.
• OttawaJazz.com
  Year-round, your best bet for local jazz events and information is OttawaJazz.com. It has an extensive events calendar, links to local musicians, and jazz news.
• Ottawa Live Music radio show
• Ottawa Metal
• Ottawa Music Festivals...
• The Ottawa Musician
• OttawaRocks.ca
• OverdoseTV
• Podcasts
• Pollstar (concert listings)
• PunkOttawa.com
• Skattawa
• Sweet Disaster
• The Big Beat (Peter Simpson's blog)
• Thriving on a Riff (Peter Hum's blog)
• TuneVault.com
  

Concert venues

• Scotiabank Place
• Lansdowne Park / Civic Centre
• Lansdowne Park (unofficial)
• Civic Centre seating plan (courtesy of Ottawa 67's)
• National Arts Centre
• Centrepointe Theatre

Local Services & stores

• Blue Bear Sound
  Ottawa recording studio. Your recordings can benefit from our John Sayers-designed facility, ensuring the proper acoustic environment and ambience that your projects deserve.
  
• GeyerMusicProductions
  The website for all your music education and production needs. Custom audio, recording studio, artist management, music lessons.



• MyMusic.ca (CD Warehouse)
  If cd's or dvd's are on your shopping list, we recommend this site. They have a great music search engine, and a huge inventory of music. The prices are good, the shipping is quick.



• Ably Productions (audio & video)
• Celebration Music
• Classical Sounds Entertainment Agency
• Click Track Audio
• Dog & Pony Sound (karaoke)
• eatsleepmusic.com
• End Hits
• Fleet Pro Sound & Lighting
• Kanata Music Academy
• Karaoke Banshee
• Liverpool Court Studios
• Mike's Music (instrument repair, sales, rentals)
• Music Solutions
• Organized Sound
• Ottawa Disc Jockeys (DJs)
  (via our Wedding Guide)
• Paz Productions
• PRS Concerts
• RecordStoreReview.com
• Reverie Creation (concert promotion)
• Revolution Rock
• Songbird Music (used instruments)
• Sound of One Hand (recording studio)
• Soundstorm Voices
• Steve's Music
• STGuitarworks (guitar repair)
• TuneVault.com
• Voice Emergent
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Disc Jockeys / DJ's

• 1180 Party Productions
• 2 Js Music Machine
• A4-Table Karaoke
• Ambiance Disc Jockey Service
• Awesome Soundz
• DJ M Disc Jockey Service
• Dog & Pony Sound
• Doug's D.J. Service
• Elite DJs & Entertainment
• First Quality Sound
• FreshStone
• Greatest Hits Mobile DJ
• Hawley DJ Services
• JMC Mobile Disk Jockeys
• Johnny Vegas
• Mick Armitage Band
• Midnight Music
• Music Magic
• Music Entertainment Group
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• Past Present Future Designs
• Performance Disc Jockeys
• Platinum Sound DJs
• PMD DiscJockey
• Quality Entertainment
• Showtime
• Sounds Great Musical Services
• White Knights DJ Services
• Planning a wedding? For more local wedding links,
  visit our Wedding Guide...

Organizations & groups

• Ars Nova
• Blackburn Chorus
• Bytown OperaWorks
• Canadian Centennial Choir
• Gananoque Concert Association
• Nepean Choir
• Old Sod Folk Music Society of Ottawa
• Ooh La La Opera!
• Opera Lyra
• Orpheus
• Osgoode Township Male Choir
• Ottawa Beatles Site
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• Schema Productions
• Stellae Boreales

Musicians & Bands

• A'Chord East
• Adams Avenue Band
• Adrian Cho
• Albert Kaprielian
• Alex Wenzowski
• Andrei Krylov (classical / flemenco / gypsy guitar)
• Andrew Mah (guitar)
• Barrelhouse
• Big Soul Project
• Black Cherry
• Bob Pilon & Bobcat Gray
• Booth 49
• Boswalos
• Brad Sucks
• Canadian Showtime Chorus
• Canto Sentimento Quartet
• Capital Chordettes
• Caroline Leonardelli - Harpist
• Celtic North
• Circuit
• Comfortably Numb
• Daisytrain
• Daniel Wnukowski (classical pianist)
• Dark Star
• David Renaud (classic wedding music)
• De'Mos

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  Diamondback
• Divertimento Orchestra
• Dopamine
• electrovillain
• Erick Traplin (Musician)
• Finger of Knowledge
• H2O Band (Caribbean music)
• Hammerheads
• Helium
• Hungry Monkey
• Impressions in Jazz Orchestra
• Infinite Few
• James Cohen
• Jookbox
• Kanata Symphony Orchestra
• Kathleen Radke, Soprano
• Kelly Craig
• Kim Kaskew
• Kristel Rose Tretter
• Kristin Bell-Murray
• Larry Wayne Church
• Le Big Band Caravane
• Lisgar O'Connor
• Lola Spriggs
• Lyon Street Celtic Band
• Mo Sayk
• Natasha Crowne
• Nepean Concert Band
• New Teeth
• Orient Park
• Ottawa Baroque Consort
• Ottawa Fiddle Ensemble
• Paul Brown Sound
• Paul Sheehy Trio
• Pete Foret Music Groups
• Pete Webb Music
• Ralph Hopper
• Random
• real gone daddies
• Robert Farrell
• Ross Taylor
• Royal Ottawa Band
• Scarecrows
• Shakedown Blues
• Slippery Slope
• Sons of Scotland Pipes & Drums
• soulcandy PRODUCTIONS (Jon E Shakka)
• Spillback
• Starfire
• Stonebridge
• Strings & Company
• Stu Watkins, Bassist
• Sugarphyx
• Sunset Strip
• Sweet Sounds Musicians
• The Crackband
• The Funktion
• The Gruff Sisters Kitchen Party
• The Runes
• The Vanity Press
• The Vibe Remains The Same
• Thirteen Strings
• Tweak
• Uncle Freddy
• Universal Habit
• Upside Blue
• Virtuosi Productions
• Wandering Minstrels
• Wicked Grin

Music lessons

• Alcorn Music Studios
• Amy Brandon
• Arioso Music
• Bass Lessons with Ross Taylor
• Dave Milliken Guitar Lessons
• Greenboro Piano Lessons
• Larry Wayne Church Guitar Lessons
• Musicians on the Spot
• Ottawa Piano Teacher
• Paul Brown - bass lessons
• Shine Music Academy
• Tim Bedner (guitar)
• Unpolished Brass (blog)
• Xenia Pestova Piano Lessons
• Zabel Manoukian - Piano Lessons

Music Clubs

• Babylon
• Barrymore's
• The Bayou
• Black Sheep Inn
• Bourbon Street Music Hall
• Le Hibou (This legendary cafe / coffee house is no longer in operation, but in the 1960s and 1970s hosted performers like Joni Mitchell, Gordon Lightfoot, Neil Young, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Bruce Cockburn, Murray McLauchlan, David Wiffen, Colleen Peterson and Sneezy Waters.)
• Mercury Lounge
• The Rainbow
• The Roxy
• Zaphod Beeblebrox

Charts

• MyMusic.ca - Top 25 (CD Warehouse)
• Music countdowns

Related Guides

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• Festivals Guide...
• Radio Guide...
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