2009 Festival Line-up Announced!
Dig Your Roots at the Ottawa Folk Fest!
ARTISTS
Bruce Cockburn
Steven Page
The Sadies
Amy Millan
Kinnie Starr
Mr. Something Something
The Arrogant Worms
Balfa Toujours
James Hill
Ball & Chain
Third Annual Cross-Cultural Artist Collaboration
plus...
Amelia Curran
Asani
Bryan Bowers
Chirgilchin
DiggingRoots
Dirk Powell
Ed Lawrence (CBC)
Ellen McIlwaine
Idy Oulo
Jah Youssouf
James Keelaghan
Michael Jerome Browne
Mihirangi
Penny Lang
Radoslav Lorkovic
Ray Bonneville
Sheesham and Lotus
The Breakmen
The Good Lovelies
Troy MacGillivray
Victoria Vox
Vishten
plus...
Andy Rush • Anne Davison • Carleton University Balloon Orchestra Charlotte Cornfield David Ross Macdonald • Jason Lang • Jesse Stewart Linsey Wellman Lyndell Montgomery • Petr Cancura • Stewed Roots Tall Trees • Todd Crowley • Village Harmony
TICKET INFORMATION
Weekend passes consist of 3 separate tickets (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) for maximum flexibility.
* Limited Early Bird Weekend Flex Passes Available: $65
* Weekend Passes for age 25 and under, age 65 and over: $35
* Kids 12 and Under: Free
Tickets available now
• By phone at 613-230-8234
"Acoustic Waves" Concert Series '08/'09
Recap: Jim Bryson & Meredith Luce @ GCTC Sun. March 8, 2009
Concert Review & Pics @ Ottawa Folk Festival Blog
Recap: Garnet Rogers @ GCTC Sun. Dec. 7, 2008
The Ottawa Folk Festival & the Great Canadian Theatre Company proudly presented Garnet Rogers (with Missy Burgess) Dec. 7, 2008 as part of our Acoustic Waves Concert Series. The SOLD OUT show was a rousing success with Garnet displaying his immense guitar prowess and baritone swoon while regailing us between songs with hilarious anecdotes. Our sincerest thanks to all who attended!
Ottawa XPress Website Review
Pics From The Show
2008 Ottawa Folk Festival Performers
2008 Featured Artist - Odetta
Update: Odetta, who made a huge emotional impact with her appearances at this year's Ottawa Folk Festival, passed away December 2nd. She was 77 years old. You can click here to listen to her last recorded concert @ this years Folkfest (on CBC On Demand)
For more than fifty years, Odetta has stirred audiences worldwide. A phenomenal singer, storyteller and historian, she sings passionate, caring songs about the lives of everyday working folk who might otherwise be forgotten.
Hers are stories told in a uniquely powerful voice and varied genres: blues, spirituals, prison work songs, sea shanties and Appalachian mountain songs. And she was able to make them all fit into her embrace of the style commonly referred to as "folk."
A classically trained singer and self-taught guitarist, she recorded groundbreaking singles and albums in the 1950's and 1960's. Her renditions during that era of "He's Got The Whole World In His Hands" and "Amazing Grace" became folk and spiritual classics throughout the world and inspired an entire generation to better understand the struggles of common, everyday working people globally.
She's performed before huge audiences at the Newport Jazz Festival, Carnegie Hall and other of the world's greatest stages. She also appeared on national television and was one of the significant artist/activist voices in America's civil rights movement.
Her 1999 release of Blues Everywhere I Go was her first blues band album in almost forty years. The album, which kicked off her collaboration with MC Records, received a 2000 Grammy nomination and two W.C. Handy Award nominations from the Blues Foundation as the top blues recording of 1999. At the release of the album, Odetta was among 19 honorees that President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton presented with the National Medal of the Arts and Humanities at Washington, DC's Constitution Hall. She is also a recipient of the Library of Congress' Living Legend Award .
Artist Links
Web Site: Concerted Efforts
YouTube:.. Careless Love ** Carry It Back To Rosie
2008 Featured Artist - Broken Social Scene
Broken Social Scene are a Juno Award winning Canadian indie rock supergroup, a musical collective that formed in 1999 and debuted at the Wavelength Music + Arts Series in 2000 in Toronto. The boisterous gang of friends contains parts of other groups and various solo artists, including Juno-sweeping songstress Feist and Stars star Amy Millan.
Core members Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning recorded and released the band's debut album "Feel Good Lost" in 2001, with contributions by Justin Peroff, Charles Spearin and Bill Priddle. They later brought in a number of friends from the Toronto indie scene - Andrew Whiteman, Jason Collett, and Metric's Emily Haines - to flesh out their live show with lyrics and vocals. Over time, contributing artists have come to include James Shaw, Evan Cranley, Justin Peroff, John Crossingham, and Stars' Torquil Campbell.
Broken Social Scene's song "Lover's Spit" from 2002's "You Forgot It In People" has been featured in Paul McGuigan's Wicker Park (2004) and Showtime's Queer as Folk (2003) among others. Showtime's "The L Word" featured "Looks Just Like the Sun" from the band's "You Forgot It In People" release in the first season.
The band contributed a special t-shirt for the Yellow Bird Project . Designed by drummer Justin Peroff, the t-shirt is being sold to raise money and awareness for Lake Ontario Waterkeeper . Yellow Bird Project is a Montreal based non-profit initiative which collaborates with musicians to raise money for various charities.
Artist Links:
Official Web Site: www.arts-crafts.ca/bss
YouTube: Fire Eye'd Boy ** Looks Just Like The Sun
Podcast: NPR Music
Thanks for Visiting - a Message from the Youth Committee
This space has been created by The Ottawa Folk Festival Youth Committee, looking to connect with EVERYONE - musicians, audience members, media - everyone- who digs folk music and the vast array of sounds it brings in tow. The Folk Festival is a non-profit organization run by volunteers. The Youth Committee is a new initiative, and we are influencing the type of music that the Festival presents.
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