Festival

Borrowed Instruments and Soggy Skies Couldn't Keep the Mary Ancheta Quartet Down in Ottawa

Ottawa Jazz Festival, June 26

PUBLISHED Jun 27, 2023

Battling less-than-great air quality and some frankly unpredictable weather at the festival's 6:30 pm main stage slot, we were greeted by t...

BreakOut West Gets the Garrys, Teon Gibbs, Kimmortal for First Wave of 2023 Artists

PUBLISHED Jun 27, 2023

BreakOut West returns to Kelowna, BC, this October, and organizers behind the event have announced the first wave of artists set to take pa...

Little Animal! Showed Ottawa Their Weirdo-Jazz Bonafides

Ottawa Jazz Festival, June 26

PUBLISHED Jun 27, 2023

Mercifully tented, the OLG stage was the place to be on a stormy Monday night; shielding from the elements, incubating the jazz. The 7:30 s...

Lana Del Rey's Glastonbury Set Cut Short Because She Was Late: "My Hair Takes So Long to Do"

PUBLISHED Jun 26, 2023

Lana Del Rey headlined Glastonbury on Saturday night (June 24), but her set was cut short — in the middle of "Video Games," no less — after...

Rolling Loud Won't Come to Toronto in 2023

PUBLISHED Jun 26, 2023

Rolling Loud organizers have confirmed that the festival won't be returning to Toronto this summer. After bringing dozens of hip-hop acts n...

Sled Island 2023 Was Everything It Needed to Be

PUBLISHED Jun 26, 2023

Once a year in Calgary, Alberta, as the carnival rides and truckloads of hay bales start making their way to town to mark the start of Stam...

TEKE::TEKE Brought the After-Hours Party to Ottawa Jazz Fest

Ottawa Jazz Festival, June 24

PUBLISHED Jun 25, 2023

TEKE::TEKE was the tip for day two of the Ottawa Jazz Festival. Hot off the release of their second album Hagata, the Montreal-based...

Feist Was Charismatic and Unpredictable in Ottawa

Ottawa Jazz Festival, June 23

PUBLISHED Jun 24, 2023

Festival season has officially started here in Ottawa, with both its eponymous Jazz Festival and Escapade kicking off this weekend — the mu...