Bluesfest Goes Country!

 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 festivals and events! Like a good sunscreen,

Bluesfest Act 2: In Pictures

 All photos by Andre Gagne. It may have been a wet one at times but another RBC Bluesfest has come to a close. It was a record breaking year for the festival which saw over 40,000 patrons pack LeBreton Flats for the Red Hot Chili Peppers and thousands attending on any of

Bluesfest’s poster child

 Photos by Andre Gagne. Poster images supplied by Dave O'Malley and Aerographics. At 65-years-old Dave O’Malley is hardly a kid but for the last 22 years he’s been the poster child of RBC Bluesfest. Should you pass through the Canadian War Museum you can take a trip down festival memory

Ottawa Life Wants to Send YOU to RBC Bluesfest!

 Get funky with the Red Hot Chili Peppers on July 15 WE HAVE A WINNER. Out of 150 entrants one of you and a friend are going to Bluesfest. Announcement to come once we confirm the winner. Ottawa Life's Festival City Series wants to send you and a guest to RBC

Twelve Bluesfest Picks to Get You Stage Hopping

 Photo of Wild Child. RBC Bluesfest has been about diversity in programming since the day “The Big Man” Clarence Clemons raised lips to sax in Major’s Hill Park back in ’94. “One thing you absolutely cannot argue is that this festival packs quite a bang for your buck!” says Karen