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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 . ...

Check out this video of 17-year-old Ashbury College student Julia Dales, who has qualified for the Beatbox Battle World Championship . We read about this in the Citizen - but unfortunately they didn’t provide a YouTube link. ** Related: ** Ottawa Music Guide

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

New this year on the Bluesfest web site is a great tool called “ViewTube”. You can use the tool to create your own festival event calendar, but even better: you can check out YouTube video samples from all of the artists who are scheduled to perform. ...

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. ...

Our rant of the day today comes from Alec Saunders, who’s upset about not being able to buy tickets for the Leonard Cohen show at the National Arts Centre: ** ** That TicketMaster has a monopoly on the sale of event tickets in North America is not in dispute. ...

Milkman reports on Tuned In Canada : ** ** Ottawa’s Newest radio station DAWG FM , has a name and has received it’s call sign from Industry Canada. C I D G will be found at 101.9 on the FM dial in spring of 2009. ...

JP MacDonald (aka Johnny Vegas), the director of entertainment at Barrymore’s Music Hall, sends along this note: Hi Everyone Barrymore’s will finally re-open this Thursday night, September 11th ! It’s been a few crazy weeks, but we’re back in action. ...

[ ](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

[ Dail 6-1-3_ ](http://dial613.blogspot.com/) , a once-great but now-dormant music blog covering Ottawa’s band scene, is looking for some writers and a web designer to revive the site. That’s good news – when the site was active it was one of our favourite weekly reads. ...