My first time in seven years at Ottawa Bluesfest, due to a couple of accidents that left me with two concussions, broken bones and more, I‘ve not been to a Bluesfest since 2019. I decided to try CityFolk last year as it would be a good restart, and it was,
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Whitehorse hit the road in May this year, for the first time as a family band, and what a show it was! Luke Doucet, Melissa McClelland, their son Jimi Doucet, Luke’s daughter Chloë Doucet, and long time collaborator Johnny Obercian on drums, are travelling across Canada, coast to coast… dare
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David Bowie: You’re Not Alone showing at The Lighthouse in London, England until October 10, 2026.
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Christmas with The Ennis Sisters, a Juno award winning Canadian musical family group, from St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador
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Sarah McLachlan brought her Fumbling Towards Ecstasy 30th Anniversary Tour to Ottawa, and what an amazing incredible, emotional, beautiful evening it was. The opening act was Tiny Habits, and with Sarah McLachlan on stage were our friends Melissa McClelland and Luke Doucet from the band Whitehorse! My daughter and I
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My first time in six years at Ottawa CityFolk, due primarily to a couple of accidents that left me with two concussions, broken bones and more, I decided CityFolk would be a safer restart then Bluesfest would be. CityFolk averages 10K people per day, where Bluesfest averages 30K per day.
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Whitehorse at Neat Coffee Shop in Burnstown, Ontario, June 27, 2025. I first discovered this band back in 2012 at Ottawa’s Folk Festival and quickly introduced my daughter to them the next year. I’ve lost track of how many times we’ve seen Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland of Whitehorse, but
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Allison Russell was at the Ottawa Jazz Festival last week… she is so amazing. Allison is a Canadian self-taught singer, songwriter, poet, activist, and multi-instrumentalist. I love her voice, love that she plays clarinet and banjo, love her energy, you can tell by a few of the photos, even a
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A week visiting Vancouver with my best friends growing up, Allan and Kevin, had to include going to a concert, just like we always did back in the ’80s. We saw Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark together in 1982 at the Commodore Ballroom! And what a fabulous show it was!!
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Peter Gabriel played the Canadian Tire Centre here in Ottawa on September 9th. As I’ve said elsewhere, this show was the most beautiful show I’ve ever seen! The music of course, of which Peter Gabriel is one of my favourite artists, but the visual… Peter is well known for his
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