Emily Jefferies

Ottawa Life’s Festival City Series is back! We'll provide a unique look at some of your favourite events. We’ll go beyond the music with artist interviews, volunteer profiles, concert reviews and spotlights on the tastes, sights and sounds of the festival season. Your city! Your [...]

Last night, Albuquerque’s The Shins hit the Claridge stage at 7:55. James led the way with the last of the original ‘Shins essence’. All members uniquely present in comfy-casual attire to commit to the band’s neutral character. For the first few songs, the overcast sky held-off, [...]

Ottawa Life’s Festival City Series is back! We'll provide a unique look at some of your favourite events. We’ll go beyond the music with artist interviews, volunteer profiles, concert reviews and spotlights on the tastes, sights and sounds of the festival season. Your city! Your [...]

Ottawa Life’s Festival City Series is back! We'll provide a unique look at some of your favourite events. We’ll go beyond the music with artist interviews, volunteer profiles, concert reviews and spotlights on the tastes, sights and sounds of the festival season. Your city! Your [...]

Photos by Emily Jefferies Friday night Ottawa Dog Rescue and Freedom Dog Rescue hosted another Rock & Rescue event for the year. Pet owners and supporters came to enjoy local live music, silent and live auctions that were donated by local businesses such as Tollden Farms, Stray Dog Brewing [...]

Photos by Emily Jefferies and NAYLAH’s Legacy Last night, First Place Options held a spring fundraiser for their Ottawa agency at the Centurion Conference Centre. It was hosted by Executive Director Kimberly Sabourin, along with special guest Solange Tuyishime. Both women, who’s relationship [...]

Photos by Emily Jefferies and Julie Beun The huge Quebec Designers Fashion sale and showcase was on at the Hotel Hilton Lac Leamy in Gatineau this past weekend and then they moved onto Sherbrooke. Out of the sixty designers from Montreal and Quebec I was able to chat with three on the eco-forward [...]

Photos by Emily Jefferies and Andre Gagne It started with the TD Green Room and ended in a 1970’s stucco basement. I made my way across the city Saturday to witness the growing mass of talent our country is always pumping out. I briefly caught the Fan Fare at Rideau Centre, with hundreds [...]

Photos by Kamara Morozuk Last night Algonquin College hosted Prozzäk’s second stop on their new Forever 1999 album release tour, after a twelve-year break. The crowd was a mix of millennials who had never heard of the band before, and generation x of the late nineties and early two thousands. [...]

Last night Ottawa locals celebrated International Women’s Day at Atomic Rooster with a Maiden Canada fundraiser for Ottawa’s Rock Camp for Girls. The event was organized by Terry Steeves, Tara Heft, and Lee Anne McLellan. The three ladies sat down for their weekly meet at a local restaurant, [...]