Music venues and concerts in Ottawa/Gatineau
 

Upcoming notable concerts/shows in Ottawa

April 23: Fleetwood Mac - Scotiabank Place
May 2: Rihanna - Scotiabank Place
May 14: Motley Crue & Big Wreck - Scotiabank Place
June 4: New Kids on the Block, 98 Degrees, Boyz II Men - Scotiabank Place
June 14-15: Rancid, Lamb of God, Alice Cooper, The Offspring, Rise Against, Marilyn Manson, Deftones, Pennywise, Lagwagon and many more - Amnesia Rockfest in Montebello
June 26: Aretha Franklin - Confederation Park
June 29-30: Ferry Corsten, Rusko, Markus Schulz, Chus & Ceballos, Benny Benassi at more TBA - Escapade Music Festival - outdoors at the RA Centre
July 1: Tiesto - Escapade Music Festival - outdoors in the Byward Market
July 4: Black Keys, Grand Funk Railroad, The Cat Empire, Jimmy Eat World - Bluesfest
July 5: Flogging Molly, Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters - Bluesfest
July 6: Dixie Chicks, Zeds Dead - Bluesfest
July 7: The Joy Formidable, Tegan and Sara, Fun., Wu-Tang Clan, Everlast - Bluesfest
July 7: Paul McCartney - Scotiabank Place
July 8: Mother Mother, RUSH - Bluesfest
July 10: Marianas Trench, Weezer, Animal Collective - Bluesfest
July 11: The Tragically Hip - Bluesfest
July 12: Matthew Good, Great Big Sea - Bluesfest
July 13: Bjork - Bluesfest
July 13: H.O.P.E. Volleyball Summerfest - lineup TBA - Mooney's Bay
July 14: Yukon Blonde, Alice in Chains, B.B. King, Serena Ryder - Bluesfest
July 15: The Eagles - Scotiabank Place
September 5-8: Ottawa Folk Festival - lineup TBA - Hog's Back Park
July 23: Justin Bieber - Scotiabank Place
July 25: KISS & Shinedown - Scotiabank Place
August 22: Selena Gomez - Scotiabank Place
Aug 30-Sep 2: Gatineau Hot Air Balloon Festival - lineup TBA - parc de la Baie
Sep 4-8: Festival Outaouais Émergent - lineup TBA - outdoors downtown Hull
September 14: Sarah Brightman - Scotiabank Place


Monster music summer for Ottawa?
Elton John-Billy Joel among major shows to be announced

By DENIS ARMSTRONG, Sun Media

Ottawa could be on the brink of one of its biggest summers of music in recent memory.

Promoter Live Nation is expected to join with Ottawa Mayor Larry O'Brien and others on Monday to announce at least one, and likely several, major acts coming to the city in June, July and August. What's known for sure is that they will announce that superstars Elton John and Billy Joel will play Scotiabank Place on June 1.

Normally, concert promoters don't use the city's mayor and other celebrities to make concert announcements. Which means that Live Nation believes it might have even bigger fish to fry for Ottawa.

By Monday the promoter hopes to have confirmed dates for rock legends AC/DC, Canadian rockers Nickelback and the Jonas Brothers, the latter for Scotiabank Place in August.

Also rumoured to be in the works are major concert events by Bruce Springsteen, U2 and a two-day Virgin Festival, possibly later this summer.


The Virgin Festival is a North American spin-off of Britain's V Festival. Virgin chairman Richard Branson, who announced the inaugural Canadian show in Toronto in 2006, was in Ottawa Tuesday for the promotional launch of Virgin Radio, the rock station formerly known as The Bear 106.9.

Elton John and Billy Joel don't excite me at all....ditto for AC/DC and Nickelcrud....is this the best we can do....at why is O'Brien promoting this.....

Fo Real. Bring back Snoop!

I don't think you realize just how big these events would be for the city.

Holding a two-day Virgin Festival, along with the existing Bluesfest, would put Ottawa in the top tier of live music cities in North America. And those acts mentioned in the article are the top touring acts in the world right now. Even if you're not a fan, I don't see how them performing in Ottawa could be anything but good news for the city.

I, myself, am more of an indie music fan, but I welcome any concert announcements that raise the profile of the city as a live music venue.

They may be big, but Elton and Billy Joel just leave me cold....ditto for Nickelback and AC/DC...however, if they bring in tourism dollars and people want to go see them, good luck to them.

Still not sure where O'Brien fits into all of this.

AC/DC is the only one I'd buy tickets for. Elton John, Nickelback and Billy Joel, I have no interest in seeing, but I see how those will be good concerts for the city to host. :tup:

Black Ice, AC/DC's new album, rocks!!

You are preaching to the unconverted here but how is the new AC/DC album different from Back in Black, Flick of the switch etc...I've heard one song and to me it sounded like an outake of Back in Black...

AC/DC to me are a cartoon band, akin to the Rolling Stones since about 1971...churning out the same stuff over and over again, a la Status Quo.

Jonas Brothers?

*shudder*

:rolleyes:

Too bad they're in Europe most/all of the summer, otherwise I'd suggest the powers that be go after Metallica for a massive outdoor concert. I would pay a lot of money to attend that.

Well, if you're a fan you tend to be more generous toward them. I got a vinyl copy of Back In Black for my 12th birthday and still have it. I do say the same about the Rolling Stones, so I hear you. Back in Black, For Those About To Rock, Flick of the Switch, all those are a pleasure to listen to. Black Ice is right up there in my book as one of their good ones.

There is also Airbourne, who sound a lot like them and have played here a couple of times, they have their own material (not a cover band at all) and they sound really good. It's good party rock.

This aside, another band I'd really love to see is Gov't Mule - they would be a perfect BluesFest show.

Mille...I moved to Agincourt (Toronto) when I was in High School from the UK and my high school was full of 'stoners' who were into AC/DC, Sabbath, Priest, and other such rivethead bands....Zeppelin and Yes are as close as I get to that kind of stuff.

In terms of being generous I can put up with indulgences and dabblings that most people don't appreciate of:

Roxy Music, Brian Eno, Genesis (pre Gabriel leaving), Bob Dylan, Laughin' Lennie, Joni Mitchell, Fairport Convention, Madness, Miles Davis, Dave Bruebeck, Pulp, Stone Roses etc.

YES. Metallica and more metal bands in general please. Ottawa always seems to get skipped over.

Metallica almost always comes to Ottawa when they do extensive arena tours (such as after an album release ... which they had a few months ago). I expect them to be here next fall/winter. I just wish we could have them in the summer for a massive outdoor gig ... picturing 10s of thousands in attendance. That would be so sweet.

I also hope to some day see Dream Theater do an Ottawa gig. Those guys are incredible.

My high school years are full of memories of amny of those. Definitely Yes (I saw them here 5 years ago, great show) - Genesis, Roxy Music definitely, and Miles Davis any day. :tup: :tup: My high school was half stoners and half brainy nerdy kids like me... except I never kept myself boxed into one group. I had stoner moments of my own with the music to go with it. :D

Wow, I guess I'm the only one who's into big breasted Swedish singers.

Who, ABBA or Ace of Base.?

Lena Philipsson of course, though not all of you are into MILFs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59jcoymbI1k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeIrYiO-LnY

I've always been a fan of Tess Merkel from Alcazar, she looks slutty into all her vids.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_FF3S77xxg

Hmmn, perhaps you meant to post these in the thread about closed down strip clubs.

BTW this just in from Russia with Love.

http://chickencrap.com/c.php?c=2295

Good one...I was expecting at some point the DJ to shout out 'put your hands together and give a warm Playmate welcome to Mercedes'....

If you want gorgeous and singer then you can't go wrong with:

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=DTy3WA0Pq8M&feature=PlayList&p=20E9DCB6EB47AE19&index=0&playnext=1

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ig3EjNlKP5M (warning...excessive alcohol consumption can make you sing like Shane McGowan)

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=xz07Hf5htfY (this one goes back to the early 80's....ahh,, CFNY memories)

Watching this video will make you get back to work....see how long you can stomach this dreck.....

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=r-vx4GcjASE

Ottawa: The Live Music Capital of Canada
 

I've always thought that Austin, Texas, and Ottawa are in many ways very similar cities. Austin is a state capital and Ottawa is a national capital. Both are mid-sized cities with almost identical city and metro populations. Both cities have large student populations and are home to major universities. Both cities are overshadowed by two much larger neighbouring cities – Dallas and Houston in the case of Austin, Montreal and Toronto in the case of Ottawa. Both cities host major music festivals.

Austin has successfully billed itself for a number of years as the Live Music Capital of the World. Ottawa is in many ways Canada's live music capital, boasting an exciting and enviable lineup of successful music festivals. Unfortunately, due to a lack of vision at the municipal level, these events, and Ottawa’s status as a top-tier live music venue, are not well-known outside of the region. The moniker of "Live Music Capital of Canada" has not been claimed by any city in the country – it is Ottawa's for the taking. The city has a unique opportunity to step out of the federal shadow and put itself on the entertainment map.

I think it's time for Ottawa to think big and raise its profile as a live music hub. This would serve to increase tourism and event attendance, encourage promoters to book more events and concerts in Ottawa, and dispel the myth that Ottawa is dull, lifeless city.

I've created a Facebook group to spread the word about a possible "Ottawalive" marketing campaign.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=51176374677&ref=mf

What do you guy think?

Great idea, I'm all for it. We'll need to increase the number of venues in the core, get the concert hall going plus a few more indoor and outdoor facilities.

Virgin Music festival in Ottawa? Where would it be? Lebreton Flats? Any news on this?

As for all the other announcements, I would be more excited if these were scheduled for outdoor summer dates, and not indoors in an arena far from the city in Kanata, I hate going to concerts there.

will Richard Branson be parachuting in, I wonder?

August 31st looks like. Wondering if the popularity will be big here in Ottawa, though probably not going to be a madhouse like in the States or at MuchMusic.

Heard Bryan Adams is coming to the NAC on Aug. 12.

Not that I'm a fan.

Tickets start at something like $79 (plus service charge(s))..that is outrageous. To me he is derivative 'cottage rock' at its best/worst. That theme song from Robin Hood was particularly atrocious.

Just as good as Kevin Costner's olde English.

I never saw the movie...was it as good an english accent as Dick van Dyke in Mary Poppins.

They decided to forgo the accent all together.. it was that good! :D

http://www.ottawasun.com/Showbiz/Music/2009/03/26/8897296.html

F yeah.

:thrasher: :drummer: :rock:

Aerosmith/ZZ Top
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Aerosmith+returns+Ottawa/1492319/story.html

Rockin’ the Blues

Classic rock will share festival stage with crooners, rappers and, of course, the blues

BY LYNN SAXBERG , THE OTTAWA CITIZENAPRIL 22, 2009 6:24 AM

http://a123.g.akamai.net/f/123/12465/1d/...ainment/rockin+blues/1519699/1519706.bin

Ottawa - Get those vacation requests in to your supervisors, people, and make sure you block off a couple of weeks in July. No camping trips, no family reunions. Bluesfest is back to take over the grounds of the Canadian War Museum.

You will require a full 12 days away from your job this summer to absorb the massive injection of live music that is to be delivered at Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest July 8 to 19. Seventies hard-rockers Kiss, Canadian crooner k.d. lang, rap superstar Ludacris and funky soulman Ben Harper are among more than 200 artists headed to this year’s festival. The preliminary lineup is being announced today.

Also part of the 16th annual edition of Bluesfest are Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Jackson Browne, Jeff Beck and former Rolling Stone Mick Taylor. Gravel-voiced Brit Joe Cocker will perform, as will Brian Setzer, the former Stray Cat now swingin’ with his own jump-blues band.

For rock fans, Stone Temple Pilots, Our Lady Peace, Live, Cake and Styx will pound it out, while festival stalwarts Blue Rodeo and Sam Roberts will help prop up the Canadian content.

Close to 60 Ottawa-area acts, including Amanda Rheaume, Lindsay Ferguson and MonkeyJunk, are also confirmed.

There’s worldbeat, indie rock, reggae, country, folk, rap and, hey, a generous amount of blues, including Chicago legend Hubert Sumlin, electric blues-rockers Los Lonely Boys, Doyle Bramhall, acoustic master Chris Smithers, the teen sensations Homemade Jamz Band and the veterans Roomful of Blues.

With six stages in operation, the complete list of artists barely fits on a page. The talent budget has swollen to almost $4 million and two important new sponsors, Subway and the HardRock Café, have climbed on board.

Looking at the schedule, there’s little sign of recessionary spending. Organizers are betting the economy won’t affect the habits of festivalgoers. Their crowd surveys show that most people who go to the festival live in the region, come back every year and attend multiple concerts.

“Our approach to programming wasn’t dramatically different,” said Bluesfest co-founder and executive director Mark Monahan. “We didn’t react, because about 80 per cent of our crowd is local, and if you look at the micro aspect of this whole (economic) thing, Ottawa has been affected but not to the extent of other communities.

“One idea would have been to pull back and not take as many gambles, but we’ve never really done that before,” said Monahan, laughing. “So my idea has been that this is what makes the festival: the artistic programming and the artistic budget. We had a reasonably good year last year, and more sponsorships so let’s put the money into programming. That’s what really drives the event.”

Though it runs later into July than usual, due to the quirky 2009 calendar, Bluesfest actually starts on a Wednesday instead of Thursday this year. It begins July 8 with a mainstage performance by Jeff Beck, the legendary blues-rock/jazz-fusion guitarist.

Thursday, July 9 brings the long-awaited return of Ben Harper, the funky and soulful musical activist who dazzled the Bluesfest troops back at Ottawa City Hall in 2003. He’s on the Bank of America stage, while Canadian songbird k. d. lang will play the Rogers stage that night.

Browne is sure to include the hit song Running on Empty in his mainstage show on Friday, July 10. A full day of programming on July 11 will be topped off by a a Saturday night dance party with the Brian Setzer Orchestra.

Cocker wraps up the first weekend on the mainstage on July 12. Monday, July 13 brings Stone Temple Pilots, and Tuesday features Our Lady Peace and Xavier Rudd.

Kiss will blast their sound out of the park on Wednesday, July 15, and the classic rock band Styx rolls in on Thursday, July 16.

Blue Rodeo returns on Friday,

July 17, but there are still open slots on the mainstage for the final weekend, July 17 and 18. They will be filled soon, Monahan says.

One new feature of this year’s festival is the first concert in LeBreton Gallery, the glassed-in area of the war museum where the tanks are displayed. Set up as a 1,000-capacity venue, jazz saxman Ornette Coleman performs there July 11.


Bluesfest

Festival tickets go on sale Saturday through Capitaltickets.ca.

Day passes start at $35.

Full passports start $225 for 12 transferable tickets, one for each day of the festival.

(The non-transferable wristbands are no longer available.)

I've got the 'insider' newsletter and can get a pass for $195, if anyone wants the info let me know..

M83 and Iron & Wine will also be there

I thought the lineup was a bit of a snoozer, but I will definitely go see M83!

Was I correct in seeing that the Alan Parsons Project are coming..you better brace yourselves Ottawa Blues Fest and bring on extra security for the mass pandemonium that a concert like that will create...what next, Yanni, James Last, Supertramp (on 2nd thought, being Ottawa that would be a sellout in seconds, with CHEZ plugging that on every 'listener super set'.)

Talk about keeping dead careers alive (Alan Parsons).

Neko Case is fun.

Green Day is shown on July 17th but with a TBA for the venue according to Pollstar. I doubt it is for the Bluesfest, but who knows, maybe a late addition?

Bachman, Cummings to play Ottawa


THE OTTAWA CITIZENAPRIL 29, 2009 1:05 PM


OTTAWA — Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings are returning to Ottawa, says their website.

The Canadian music icons will play Southam Hall at the National Arts Centre Aug. 10. They'll also play the K-Rock Centre in Kingston on Aug. 8, says the website, bachmancummings.com.

Bachman and Cummings first gained fame as the heart and soul of the Guess Who, the hugely successful Canadian band of the 1960s and 1970s. The band put Canada on the international rock and roll map with songs such as These Eyes, No Time and American Woman. Each musician survived the end of the Guess Who, with Cummings off to a successful solo career and Bachman finding even more international success with Bachman-Turner Overdrive.

Tickets go on sale to the general public through ticketmaster.ca at 10 a.m. Monday. Ticket prices were not yet available.

© Copyright (c) The Ottawa Citizen

Sorry Waterloo Warrior but are we supposed to get excited about this...you know there is something tragic when these dinosaurs don't know when to stop and just endlessly tour churning out the hits of yesteryear to an audience with little interest in anything new or interesting. Oh wait, those people have a whole radio station devoted to this kind of music...located between 105.3 and 106.9.

I think that's an unfair criticism of CHEZ... although they are primarily a classic rock station, I've heard them play Nickleback sometimes ;)

Good one....believe it or not I've even heard them play Supertramp...:jester:

This summer will not be perfect until Kim Mitchell, Streetheart, Loverboy and Trooper announce concert dates.

Good news: Trooper will be playing at the Carp Fair this September. Kim Mitchell will also be playing at a couple of fairs.

How about all 4 plus REO and Styx.....time for all us to grow a mullet (preferable with a centre hair part), put on our best doeskin/Kenora dinner jacket and the look will be complete.

:laugh: I knew it! 2 outta 4 ain't bad. :D

On June 6th they'll be in Ottawa doing a private corporate gig....wonder which lucky folks get that gig

http://www.trooper.ca/default.php?cat=tourdates&subcat=none

Those tickets must be the most sought-after items in town. I'm sure Michael O'Byrne will be trying to hawk them to callers 1 thru 100 on CTV news at noon the day before.