SuperEX (2013 Dates TBA)
| August 15, 2013 | to | August 25, 2013 |
The Central Canada Exhibition, more commonly known as the Ottawa SuperEX, has been in operation for over 122 years. The Ottawa SuperEX offers a variety of entertainment for the entire family complete with strolling acts, community stage performances, vast array of food vendors, agricultural displays, the midway, free concert series and much more!
Event Highlights:
- 4-H Agricultural Shows
- Country Entertainment Stage
- Homecraft Competitions
- 2nd Annual Apple Pie Baking Content
- Community Stage
- Super Stage Concert Series
- Variety of Unique Strolling Acts
General information: 613.237.7222
General information email: judyb@ottawasuperex.com
Location: 1015 Bank Street (Lansdowne Park ), Ottawa
On the Web: www.ottawasuperex.com
Map:
Capital Pride 2011 (2012 Dates TBA)
| August 19, 2012 | to | August 28, 2012 |
The 25th annual Capital Pride Festival celebrates the diversity of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered (GLBT) community. Capital Pride partners with many community groups that represent the GLBT community of the National Capital Region to host 10 days of diverse events including: sporting events, a human rights vigil, events for youth and Rainbow Party 11. The festival concludes with the highly-anticipated Pride Parade and outdoor Pride Stage on Sunday, August 28. Happy Pride!
Pride Parade
The 2011 Pride Parade will start in the heart of downtown Ottawa. The Parade begins at 12:30, Sunday August 28th at Old Wellington and Wellington across from National Library and Archives of Canada, heads east down Wellington where it goes past the Supreme Court of Canada and Parliament Hill to Elgin Street where it turns at the National War Memorial, follows Elgin to Laurier West and finishes at the Festival Plaza Festival Site.
Festival Information:
General information: 613.252.7174
General information email: info@capitalpride.ca
Location: Various locations throughout the National Capital Region (see the website for details)
On the Web:
Website: www.capitalpride.ca
Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival
| July 26, 2012 | to | August 10, 2012 |
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Music at every turn; your favourite composers interpreted with creative new intensity; traditional and fringe alike, performed to the bravos of folk who truly love their song. These are a few of the impressions you’ll take home from Ottawa Chamberfest 2012.
Now in its 19th edition, this year’s two-week international chamber music festival brings together the boldest names in ensemble and solo performance, capped at both ends with the hottest three tickets of the summer concert season.
Join us in Ottawa July 26 to August 10 and live the music.
De la musique à tous moments, vos compositeurs préférés interprétés avec une nouvelle intensité créative, des interprétations – du traditionnel au fringe – applaudies par des mélomanes vraiment avertis … voici quelques unes des impressions qui resteront avec vous après le Chamberfest d’Ottawa 2012.
D’une durée de deux semaines, la 19e édition de ce festival international de musique de chambre rassemble les interprètes les plus audacieux de la musique d’ensemble et soliste du moment, et sera couronnée, au début et à la fin, par les trois concerts les plus attendus de la saison de concerts estivale.
Joignez vous à nous, du 26 juillet au 10 août, à Ottawa, et vivez la musique!
Event Highlights:
- Return of the Bicycle Parade & Flotilla (with the Rideau Canal Festival)
- Late Night concert series
General information: 613.234.6306
General information email: info@chamberfest.com
Locations:
Dominion-Chalmers United Church
355 Cooper Street
Ottawa, ON K2P 0G8
613.235.5143
Saint Brigid’s Centre for the Arts
302 Patrick Street
Ottawa ON K1N 5K5
The Church of St. John the Evangelist
154 Somerset Street West
Ottawa, ON K2P 0H8
Rideau Hall
1 Sussex Drive
Ottawa ON K1M 1M4
The Sacred Space
Beechwood, the National Cemetery of Canada
280 Beechwood Avenue
Ottawa ON K1M 1K5
613.741.9530
On The Web:
Website: www.chamberfest.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ottawachamberfest
Twitter: http://twitter.com/Chamberfest
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/OttawaChamberfest
Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/chamberfest2011
Map:
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Summer Solstice Aboriginal Arts Festival
| June 21, 2012 | to | June 24, 2012 |
FREE Admission – Donations Gratefully Accepted
For a number of years now, the Summer Solstice Aboriginal Arts Festival has been providing families a unique opportunity to experience and celebrate the diverse Aboriginal cultures of the National Capital Region. Ongoing, lively and interactive programming will keep your family entertained throughout the day including extensive Family activities (pony rides, petting zoo, bouncy castles, stilt-walkers and more) Aboriginal artisan village (featuring interactive arts workshops, demonstrations and vendors) and our popular Main Stage featuring headliner Shane Yellowbird, Shy Anne Hovorka, Kaiva, Aboriginal Canada We’ve Got Talent! and ongoing cultural showcases throughout the day.
Festival Information:
General information: 613-261-3637
General information email: nadottawa@gmail.com
Locations:
Lebretton Flats Park (behind the War Museum)
Museum of Civilization
(Please consult the Summer Solstice website)
On the Web:
Website: www.aboriginalexperiences.com
Westfest’s Domicile Main Stage Moves to Bigger Space
In its eighth year running, Westfest, Westboro Village’s Festival of Music, Art and Life, is making a few changes that will ensure this year’s experience is one to remember.
This spring, from June 10-12, Westfest’s Domicile main stage will return to the eastern end of Westboro Village, at the corner of Byron and Kirkwood Avenues. The Domicile main stage will open each day of the festival at 5 pm, leaving the daytime for families to enjoy the many “On The Street” features of Westfest. As street activities wind down, the party will start on the main stage with an excellent line-up of artists performing each night.
For years, the community greenspace at the corner of Byron and Kirkwood Avenues has been left unused, waiting for an event like Westfest to bring it back to life. This space, which features a grassy hill for naturally elevated seating, was reserved for community use when the nearby Real Canadian Superstore was built. Until now, it has remained virtually unused.
Westfest Founder and Producer Elaina Martin says the new location will provide an audience area four times the size of the previous location, making the festival experience safer and more comfortable for everyone. In addition, she said the entire audience area at this year’s Domicile main stage will be fully licensed. “The new Domicile main stage space will give attendees a truly full festival experience; the comfort of having a drink while still experiencing an intimate show in a safe setting – all while also not having to peek around trees or buildings to do so!”” Elaina said. Last year saw more than 5,000 music fans attend Westfest’s Domicile main stage area; while the audience continued to grow, the space became too small.
After a year of searching for the right candidate, a new Executive Director, Natalie Hanson, has been named to the Westboro Village BIA, leaving past executive director Elaina Martin free to focus on Westfest. This will be the second year that the festival has operated with full autonomy from the Westboro Village BIA. The Westfest team looks forward to a continued relationship with the BIA, and Ms. Hanson.
As always, there will be many ways to get to the new site of the Domicile main stage. For attendees using OC Transpo, the nearby Westboro Transitway Station is a short walk south to the stage. A secure bike park will be available, and on-street parking is available where designated on nearby streets.
Fast-growing Westfest gains ‘giant’ new home
Westfest will expand to a new part of the neighbourhood this year. The organizer of the free music festival that takes place in Westboro has found a new location for the main stage that gives more space for the audience to stretch out.
The stage will be set up in the strip of community green space at Byron and Kirkwood avenues, immediately south of the Real Canadian Superstore parking lot. Westfest director Elaina Martin says the grassy site will accommodate 15,000 people, tripling the capacity of the previous main-stage area, which was a strip of parkland several blocks west.
Describing it as a “new, giant, beautiful, safe, glorious home,” Martin says the festival will now be able to license the entire area, instead of having to separate the beer-drinkers from the rest of the concertgoers. “You won’t have to wave at your friends over the fence anymore,” she said. Popular Vankleek Hill-based microbrewery, Beau’s, is returning as the beer sponsor.
Westfest, which began in 2004, has been growing every year. Billed as a community celebration of music, visual art and literary pursuits, last year’s event attracted more than 100,000 people during one June weekend. Richmond Road was closed to traffic between Golden and McRae avenues, and programming filled the street. The main stage at the western end of the 14-block stretch featured performances by Sloan, Dala and Ottawa blues trio MonkeyJunk. Up to 5,000 people crammed in front of the stage for the headlining shows.
Read more at ottawacitizen.com
Young Ottawa string players set to perform this weekend
Nearly a dozen young Ottawa string players will perform music by Bach, Beethoven, Mendelssohn and others at Glebe-St. James United Church Sunday in a concert presented by the Young String Performers Foundation.
That’s the charitable organization founded by Ottawa violinist Joan Milkson to help young Ottawa players up to age 16 by offering them concert opportunities, master classes, instruments on loan and bursaries.
Milkson’s organization presents several concerts each season, featuring students recommended by area teachers. The performers are prizewinners at Ottawa, provincial, national and sometimes international competitions. Among the performers Sunday will be violinist Kerson Leong, 13, who won the junior division of the Menuhin Competition in Norway last year. His 16-year-old brother, cellist Stanley Leong, who has been a top prizewinner at national competitions, will also perform. Other students include cellists Anita Pari and Lilian Mai Potvin, violist Jonah Poplove and violinists Rebecca Gray, Meghan Ruel, Isaac Alexander-Cook, Jonathan Crombie and Jae Won Seo.
On Jan. 8, Milkson’s organization brought former Montreal Symphony concertmaster Jonathan Crow to town for a day-long master class session. Crow, who teaches at McGill University, worked with 16 students. Milkson says his teaching skills were impressive.
Mark these gems on your calendar: Classical stars to shine in Ottawa, with more to come
Some of the star names are enough to make a classical music lover’s mouth water: In 2011, Ottawa-area music buffs will be able to hear performances by conductor Gustavo Dudamel, pianists Angela Hewitt (twice) Janina Fialkowska (twice), violinist James Ehnes and the Orchestre National de France.
And those are just some highlights of performances that we know about. Programming is still to be unveiled for Julian Armour’s Music and Beyond Festival (July 7 to 17) and the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival (July 23 to Aug. 6.) We also don’t know yet what the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Ottawa Symphony or Opera Lyra Ottawa will offer in the fall.
In the meantime, here are a few promising performances scheduled for the first part of the year:
Jan. 9: Dudamel comes to the megaplex: The brilliant young Venezuelan maestro, director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic since fall 2009, is in huge demand as a guest conductor. He appeared with the NACO in 2007, but with his busy schedule, is unlikely to be back to Ottawa often. So fans of Dudamel will be excited that the L.A. orchestra, in a page from the Metropolitan Opera’s successful satellite transmissions, plans to present three of this season’s concerts live by satellite from Walt Disney Concert Hall to movie theatres across North America. The series will include interviews with the conductor and musicians and footage of rehearsals. The series opens Jan. 9 at 5 p.m. with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7, Bernstein’s Symphony No. 1 and American composer John Adams’ Slonimsky’s Earbox. Other concerts are March 13 (all-Tchaikovsky) and June 5 (all-Brahms). Ottawa-area cinemas presenting the concerts are SilverCity, Coliseum and Gatineau’s StarCité (www.cineplex.com).
Read more: www.ottawacitizen.com
6 Concert Extravaganza in one night with all-star Canadian musicians!
Ottawa (Thursday, October 14, 2010) – The Ottawa Jazz Festival has programmed the most sublime Canadian jazz artists performing back-to-back in six concerts in one evening on Saturday, November 6, 7:30pm at the National Arts Centre Fourth Stage for only $15.
In concert with the annual CAPACOA (Canadian Arts Presenting Association/l’Association canadienne des organismes artistiques) conference, this is a rare opportunity to see some of the finest young talent on the touring circuit today: Read more
Music and Beyond Presents Two Great Fall Music Events
Music and Beyond Presents
Two Great Fall Music Events
In The Countryside!
Sunday 26 September 2010
A Kid’s Music Adventure
10am – 3pm
Fall Celebration – Fundraising Concert & Reception
4:30pm – 6:30pm
At Saunders Farm, Munster (map)
And don’t miss our Online Auction November 1 – December 15, 2010
For details visit www.musicandbeyond.ca
