festivals

Just a quick note to point you towards Ottawa Tonite , a local blog/event directory that’s planning live daily video coverage from Folk Fest, August 13-15. “OT will be bringing you live interviews with artists, vendors, performers, folk enthusiasts, jammers, and more every day of the festival at 3pm EST. ...

Here’s a cool job for a jazz music fan in Ottawa: Programming Manager for the Ottawa Jazz Festival. Deadline to apply is September 7, 2010. Ottawa Jazz Festival Inc. seeks a dynamic professional to join the organization as Programming Manager, succeeding the founding programming manager. ...

With Bluesfest finished for another year, Ottawa music fans should look be looking eagerly ahead to the end of August for this year’s edition of the i(heart)music festival . It’s a three day festival from August 26-28, with shows at Mavericks and Cafe Dekcuf downtown. ...

(This post was originally published on April 21, 2010 then updated & re-published on July 2, 2010.) The complete list (so far) of performers at the 2010 edition of Bluesfest. Be sure to check out the excellent Bluesfest website or OttawaStart’s Bluesfest Guide for more info. ...

A quick note to point you to OttawaJazzScene.ca , who have been providing some great blog posts leading up to this year’s Jazz Festival. They’ll be a good source for festival news over the next couple of weeks. ** ...

Update: Apartment613 and the Wellington Oracle are joining forces to review every Fringe Fest show this year - something that to our knowledge has never been done before. That’s a lot of shows. Check it out here: FullyFringed.ca The Ottawa Fringe Festival starts today. ...

Just went to update our Festivals Guide with info about the Capital Hoedown , a new country music festival that announced its line-up today. The first result that came up was for the similarly-named O-Town Hoedown , also a country music festival. ...

The Ottawa Citizen is doing live coverage of the KISS show at Bluesfest tonight and doing a pretty good job of conveying the atomsphere down there. They’ve got a kind of crowd-sourced-stream-of-consciousness thing going. It’s just like being there, but way quieter and a lot textier. ...

You can add Busta Rhymes, Metric, Lynard Skynard, K’Naan, Gym Class Heroes, Silverstein, King Khan and BBQ, Black Keys to the long list of performers at this year’s Bluesfest. You can see previous posts about performers here and here . ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/ottawafestivals.jpg) Heads up: The Ottawa Festival Network has a brand new web site. It’s a big improvement over the old one – not only is it much prettier to look at, but the listing of festivals is easier to navigate and there’s more info as well. ...