festivals

More bands were added today to the Bluesfest line-up: * Ice Cube * Black Mountain * Yeah Yeah Yeahs * Jack White's The Dead Weather * [ More artists are listed here... ](http://ottawastart.com/the-2009-bluesfest-line-up-so-far/) ** Related: ** Ottawa Bluesfest Guide

Here’s an A-Z list of performers confirmed so far for the 2009 Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest . (Updated May 2 with new artists.) * Alan Parsons Live Project * All Nations Gospel Choir * Amanda Rheaume * Amos the Transparent * Ana Miura * Anders Drerup * Andrew Vincent * Ani DiFranco * Arkells * Beast * Becky Abbott * Ben Harper and Relentless7 * Black Mountain * Blue King Brown * Blue Rodeo * Blues in the Schools Performance * Bob Corritore * Brian Setzer Orchestra * Brock Zeman * Brothers Chaffey * Buckwheat Zydeco * C. ...

This afternoon on CBC’s All In A Day , they were talking about Will Inrig, a Cantebury High School student and animator. His animated short, ** ** The Depose of Bolskivoi Hovhannes, is going to be shown at the Ottawa International Animation Festival later this month, alongside over a hundred films from around the world. ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/Flickr-jurankaimages-27-stuff-tagged-with-jazz08_1214753667111.png) Check out this Flickr photostream from jurankaimages, featuring lots of great photos from this year’s Ottawa Jazz Festival . ** Related: ** Ottawa Festivals Guide

** Funny piece from Larry Moran’s Sandwalk blog, about Ottawa’s annual Dandelion Festival : ** Every year in May there's a famous dandelion festival in Ottawa (Canada). People come from all over the world to see the millions of dandelions along the parkways and walkways throughout the city. ...

Ottawa Citizen arts editor & blogger Peter Simpson has written the definitive “anti-lawnchairs-at-bluesfest” rant, titled “The scourage of lawn chairs” . A sampling: ** ** PILCs (people in lawn chairs) – not all of them, but enough of them to give them all a bad name – believe that putting down a chair is akin to Columbus planting the Spanish flag on the shores of the new land: this is claimed for the lawn chair crown, and none shall challenge its unimpeded view of the stage, regardless of how long the show is, how big the crowd is, or how many times the chair sits empty while its owner toodles off for a beer or a snack or a stretch of the legs. ...

Holy crap this is a big line-up. 11 days, dozens of artists, from so many different genres of music: Alejandro Escovedo AlexCuba Alexisonfire Anita Ward Bela Fleck & The Flecktones Blackie & The Rodeo Kings Blue Rodeo Bob Dylan Bob Schneider ...