Fest offers music for beginners
Tracey Tong, Metro News Ottawa
Learn to play the ukelele at a free workshop.
Folkfest – The 17th annual Ottawa Folk Festival runs at Britannia Park from Friday through Sunday.
Artists – Headliners include Arrested Development, Calexico, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott and the Jim Cuddy Band.
Go green – This is a green festival. Bring your own water bottle and refill at the hydration station, and cycle and leave your bike at the lockup or hop on the festival’s shuttle.
Online – Register for the free lessons at ofcmusic.ca.
Ottawa residents are lucky to be able to choose among lots of music festival offerings.
Earlier this year, there was the jazz festival, Ottawa Bluesfest, Music and Beyond, and Chamberfest.
If all that listening has inspired you to get in on some of the music-making action, you’re in luck.
The Ottawa Folklore Centre is running a series of free music lessons at Ottawa Folkfest, which runs Friday through Sunday.
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Folk Festival fills out its main stage, headline lineup
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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