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Post by guyterrifico on Apr 23, 2008 13:08:13 GMT -5
In recent years this festival has really grown. Just wanted to make you all aware that Canada's nation's capital can throw down.
The 2008 Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest line-up has been announced and features great acts,such as: James Taylor; Steely Dan; The TragicallyHip; Feist; Wyclef Jean; The Black Crowes; Fergie; Widespread Panic;Brian Wilson; Great Big Sea; BOZ SCAGGS; Three Days Grace; TV on theRadio; Akon; Primus; Zappa Plays Zappa; Taj Mahal; Lucinda Williams;Donna Summer; Plain White T's; Richard Thompson; Matthew Good and HisBand; Don McLean; Keb' Mo'; Robert Randolph and the Family Band;Theory of a Dead Man; Blind Boys of Alabama; Joan Armatrading; JakobDylan; Dr. John; Canned Heat; The Secret Machines; Corb Lund, Metric;CALEXICO; Sean Kingston; The Weakerthans; The Wailers; Johnny Winter;Cassandra Wilson; Kathleen Edwards; Adrian Belew; Bettye LaVette;Shelby Lynne; Wintersleep; Allen Toussaint; Sam Roberts Band, and many more…
I'm Canadian and have been attending this festie for years! Umm I would probably say about 14 years now. Progressively it got worse with mainstream bands that really threw us diehard Blues fans off. Lastyear after coming back from Bonnaroo and heading straight for the Nations Capital to take it in again, I was so annoyed on how us Canadians treat eachother. My friend bumped her chair into a womans arm by accident and nearly caused a riot. I swore Bluesfest off right there! Once you go AMerican, you never go back.
That being said, this year I'm off to Rothbury on the first weekend of Bluesfest and am hugely disappointed about missing Bluesfest this year. Although hanging out with 50,000 of my closest american friends will be better than sitting on pavement in the middle of Ottawa waiting for the next band to get on stage.
This year for Bluesfest, its truly going to be a great one. I've seen Bluesfest go from Majors Hill Park, to Lebreton Flats, then to City Hall, then back to the Flats. The NEW and IMPROVED flats is horrible with paved walkways everywhere and streets, blah blah blah. Once you've been to a place like Bonnaroo, its just not the same.
I'm Canadian and have been attending this festie for years! Umm I would probably say about 14 years now. Progressively it got worse with mainstream bands that really threw us diehard Blues fans off. Lastyear after coming back from Bonnaroo and heading straight for the Nations Capital to take it in again, I was so annoyed on how us Canadians treat eachother. My friend bumped her chair into a womans arm by accident and nearly caused a riot. I swore Bluesfest off right there! Once you go AMerican, you never go back.
That being said, this year I'm off to Rothbury on the first weekend of Bluesfest and am hugely disappointed about missing Bluesfest this year. Although hanging out with 50,000 of my closest american friends will be better than sitting on pavement in the middle of Ottawa waiting for the next band to get on stage.
This year for Bluesfest, its truly going to be a great one. I've seen Bluesfest go from Majors Hill Park, to Lebreton Flats, then to City Hall, then back to the Flats. The NEW and IMPROVED flats is horrible with paved walkways everywhere and streets, blah blah blah. Once you've been to a place like Bonnaroo, its just not the same.
That must be an Ontario thing. Any festivals I've been to in Canada are the most laid back experiences ever.
Its an Ottawa Thing! Of course its a government town...... So sad.....
But Western Canada regina, saskatchewan etc know how to throw folk fests.
That's too bad. I've been to Ottawa a few times and I really like the city (my god it's clean) but I have noticed everything has a very business like feel to it.
I'll be off to the Winnipeg Folk Fest in two days. I haven't been since around 2001, but this year's lineup has enough to entice me. The vibe at the festival really changed in the mid to late 90's, they started getting sponsors for every stage and whatnot, but like I said, I haven't been in about 7 years, so I'm interested to see what it's like now.
Yesterday's Lineup announcement for Ottawa Bluesfest 2009
Ottawa Cisco systems Bluesfest is July 8-19, and costs $225 American which is about $160 for my American Friends.
Adam Franklin Alan Parsons Live Project All Nations Gospel Choir Ana Miura Anders Drerup Andrew Vincent Ani DiFranco Arkells Beast Becky Abbott Ben Harper and RELENTLESS7 Blue Rodeo Bob Corritore Brian Setzer Orchestra Brock Zeman Carlos Varela Brothers Chaffey Buckwheat Zydeco Cake Cedric Burnside & Lightnin’ Malcolm Chris Smither City of a Hundred Spires Clem Snide Coeur de pirate Concession 23 Colin Linden Cotton Jones Craig Horton C.R. Avery & the Sojourners Crystal Castles Daddy Mack Blues Band Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women Dave Mason David Lindley David Maxwell Deep Dark Woods Deer Tick DeVotchKa Die Mannequin Diunna Greenleaf & Bob Margolin Divine Brown DNA The Dodos Downstone Rhythm Doyle Bramhall Drew Nelson Drive-By Truckers Eden Brent Elage Mbaye Eppiphane Eric Lindell Ernie Hawkins Estelle FEMI KUTI & The Positive Force Flecton Big Sky Freddie Roulette Funktagon Girl Talk GOOD2GO Gov’t Mule Gunsmoke Handsome Furs Henry Butler Papa Mali The Rhythm Council Hey Rosetta! Hollerado Holy F*ck Homemade Jamz’ Blues Band Hoodlum Hubert Sumlin The Human Statues Hundreds and Thousands Iron and Wine Israel & New Breed Jackson Browne James Cohen Caravan Jeff Lang Jeff Rogers Jenn Grant Jennifer Warnes Jesse Cook Jill Barber Joe Cocker Joe Louis Walker Joe Pug John Allaire John Vanderslice JW-Jones with Little Charlie Baty k.d. lang Kaz Kazanoff & The Texas Horns Ken Workman & the Union King Sunny Ade & His African Beats Kingdom Shore KISS Kyrie Kristmanson Land of Talk Larry Garner Larry McCray Leif Vollebekk LeE HARVeY OsMOND Les Claypool Library Voices Lindsay Ferguson LIVE Loreena McKennitt Los Lonely Boys Loudlove Louisiana Red M83 Lucas Haneman Ludacris Marc Charron Marie-Josée Houle Matisyahu Matt Andersen Meredith Luce Mick Taylor Mishka Moreland and Arbuckle Mother Mother Neko Case New Mastersounds NEWWORLDSON Okkervil River Ornette Coleman Oumou Sangare Our Lady Peace Paolo Nutini Papa San Pappy Johns Band Paul Reddick Philip Sayce Politique Poorfolk Peter Voith Prescott Punch Brothers featuring Chris Thile Rachael Yamagata Reggie Young & Gospel Park Reverend Billy Wirtz Rick Fines Rocco Deluca Roomful of Blues Ryan Shaw Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women Sam Roberts Band Sedatives Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings Shemekia Copeland Shiloh Silver Creek Sista Monica Spencer Davis Steve Earle Stone Temple Pilots Sky Diggers Spam Allstars Steve Mariner Steve Poltz Styx Sugar Blue Sunparlour Players Tara Holloway That 1 Guy The Allrights The Balconies The Church The Duhks The Heavy The Larry McRay Band The Low Anthem The Moth The National The Rebel Year The Road Hammers The Roll Models The Soul of John Black The Stills The Yardbirds The Zombies TJ Wheeler Thunderheist Toots & the Maytals Treasa Levasseur United Steel Workers of Montreal Voices of Praise Watters Brothers Yahowa13 Xavier Rudd Zac Harmon
This is a pretty good lineup this year again. I may make the trip up for a few days but it depends on how many of these bands end up playing the Jazz Fest here or summer fest in Quebec City (usually a lot of crossover). If DeVotchKa and the Drive-By-Truckers are on a weekend I'll be there foresure. Also it's great to see the United Steel Workers of Montreal on here, they're fantastic.
The Yardbirds Tuesday, July 14 at 7:45 pm on the Subway Stage
By now, everyone knows the Yardbirds legend; the band graduated three of the great Ph.D.s of rock guitar—Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. They created hard rock out of standard twelve-bar blues, doubling the tempos and whacking the amps up to ten. On the British club scene, the Yardbirds, the Animals, and the Rolling Stones ruled the stages. The Yardbirds expanded the range of the electric guitar, experimenting with feedback, sustain, and fuzztone. They also coined and popularized the rave-up, a kind of free-for-all where you jam long and hard, not as soloists, but in a tandem, until you reach an epiphany about 10 or 20 or 30 minutes later, a shuddering climax of decibels and pure energy, and then—back into the song for one more boom-boom chorus.
Indeed, the Yardbirds laid the groundwork for Rock Guitar As We Know It.
The full event pass is totally transferrable which Bluesfest started doing a few years ago. So if you purchase the full event pass, you can sell the other tickets you aren't using.
thats a pretty sick line up. ottawa blues fest is something i've always wanted to do, i love the city, but, alas, i'm too poor to make more than bonnaroo and osheaga.
I just checked the Yardbirds webpage no Beck, Clapton, or Page in this current incarnation. Just as well I really didn't need the complications of a Canada trip this summer.
