Folk Festival fills out its main stage, headline lineup

July 21, 2010 · Filed Under Festivals in the News, News

Arrested Development, Calexico, Jim Cuddy Band among top attractions

By AEDAN HELMER, Ottawa Sun

The Jim Cuddy Band is among the headliners for this year’s Ottawa Folk Festival at Britannia Park. (Ottawa Sun file photo)

The Ottawa Folk Festival has put the finishing touches on its evening schedule, which includes headliners Arrested Development, Calexico, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott and The Jim Cuddy Band.

The full evening schedule for three-day festival, from Aug. 13 to 15 at Britannia Park, is available online now at ottawafolk.org, with a full daytime schedule to be announced next week.

The festival’s opening night is headlined by alt hip hop collective Arrested Development, perhaps not the first name that comes to mind when you think “folk fest,” but the fusion artists cap an already eclectic opening day.

Keeping with festival tradition, Ottawa’s Folka Voca choir kicks off main stage festivities on Friday after the 6 p.m. opening ceremony, followed by folk troubadour Jon Brooks.

Local indie darlings The Acorn are up next promoting their latest soft-spun No Ghost release, followed by Toronto roots orchestra Rock Plaza Central.

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