Bluesfest

10 good reasons to embrace La Francophonie at Bluesfest

By Cindy Savard, Éliane Laberge and Éric Barrette in collaboration with Eventful Capital and Ottawa Showbox. Photo by Els Durnford. 

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RBC Ottawa Bluesfest Announces 2018 Lineup

Foo Fighters, Dave Matthews Band, Beck, Jethro Tull, Courtney Barnett, and more to headline Ottawa Bluesfest 2018 RBC Ottawa Bluesfest

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Gallery: Bluesfest Day 10 w/ Tom Petty, Claude Munson & more

  The final day of Bluesfest saw a lot of local groups, including Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Claude Munson,

Ottawa Bluesfest

Gallery: Bluesfest Day 9 w/ MUSE, Night Lovell, Mushy Gushy & more

The second last night of Bluesfest was actually dry…yes, you heard that correctly. Dry. The beautiful sunny day held in

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Bluesfest Day 8: Live, Anderson .Paak, and The Headstones

Photos by Els Durnford It was a soaking wet night Friday night at RBC Bluesfest which saw sets cut short

Gallery: Bluesfest Day 7 w/ Migos, Maurice Moore and Lil Yachty

It’s likely that you may have heard about Bluesfest’s seventh day—it was mired by chaos, violence and overindulgence, around 200

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Review: Bluesfest Day 6 w/ LCD Soundsystem, The Shins, Gary Clark Jr., & more

Wednesday’s weather forecast was a perfect summary of summer in Ottawa thus far. Rapidly oscillating between heat and cool, dry and

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Gallery: Bluesfest Day 5 w/ Fetty Wap, July Talk, RL GRIME & more

After a well-deserved break on Monday at Ottawa Bluesfest, things picked up right back up where they started on Tuesday.

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Gallery: Bluesfest Day 4 w/ P!nk, Yonatan Gat, Rebecca Noelle, & more

The night of Sunday, July 9, was a wet one, but the skies cleared up enough for festival-goers to enjoy

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Bluesfest Day 3: Flight Distance, Tegan & Sara, and 50 Cent

The first Saturday of Bluesfest brought healthy crowds to see a diverse collection of musicians. The first group I caught