Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest announces blockbuster line-up
Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest organizers have announced the line-up for the 2010 edition of the festival. This year, scheduling will run from Tuesday, July 6 through Sunday, July 11 (Monday will be an off-day for fans and organizers to re-charge their batteries) and re-commence Tuesday, July 13 through Sunday, July 18. Festival organizers are expecting another year of great attendance while offering a dynamic festival experience, for what Billboard Magazine has ranked as one of the top-10 festivals in the world.
Confirmed Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest acts to-date include Alexisonfire; Anders Osborne & Johnny Sansone; Andrew Bird; AfroReggae; Arcade Fire; Aterciopelados; Babe Ruth; Basia Bulat; Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba; Bear in Heaven; Big Jeezus Truck; Big Soul Project featuring Roxanne Goodman; Bill ‘Sauce Boss’ Wharton; Bjorn Berg; Blonde Redhead; Campbell Brothers; Caravan Palace; Carolyn Wonderland; The Cat Empire; Champion and His G-Strings; Charlie Winston; Coolooloosh; Crowded House; Culture Reject; Curtis Salgado; Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi Band; Down With Webster; Drake; Dream Theatre; Eamon McGrath; Elvis Perkins; Ethiopique; Faber Drive; Foghat; Furthur featuring Phil Lesh & Bob Weir; Garaga; Gipsy Kings; GOOD2GO; Gord Downie and the Country of Miracles; Great Big Sea; Great Lake Swimmers; Group 1 Crew; Grupo Fantasma; Iron Maiden; James Hunter; Jimmy Cliff; Joan Jett; Joe Krown Trio with Walter Wolfman Washington & Russell Batiste; John Butler Trio; John Hiatt; John Kilduff; Keith Urban; Ken Workman & the Union; Kevin Costner and Modern West; Kings Go Forth; Konono No. 1; Lady Tramaine Hawkins; Laurent Bourque; Levon Helm; LIGHTS; Loudlove; Lukas Nelson; Marc Cohn; Marcia Ball & The Voice of The Wetlands All Stars featuring Tab Benoit, Cyril Neville, Anders Osborne, Johnny Sansone, Waylon Thibodeaux, and Big Chief Monk Boudreaux; Marianas Trench; Martin Sexton; Matt Andersen; Matthew Good; Matt Schofield; Metric; Moneen; Monster Mike Welch; NEWWORLDSON; Nicolas Collins; Occidental Brothers; Octoberman; Ozomatli; Passion Pit; Paul Rishell & Annie Raines; Planet Smashers; Renaissance; Richie Righteous; River City Junction; Robert Farrell Band; Robert Randolph & the Family Band; Roger Hodgson; Ronnie Baker Brooks; Roy Rogers & The Delta River Kings; Rosanne Cash; The Rural Alberta Advantage; Ryan Montbleau Band; Santana; Septentrional d’Haiti; Slyde; Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes; Staff Benda Bilili; Steel Pulse; Steve Dawson’s Mississippi Sheiks Project; Steve Hackett; Steve Winwood; That 1 Guy; That’s the Spirit; Terrance Simien & The Zydeco Experience; The Aggrolites; The Budos Band; The Constellations; The Ethics; The Flaming Lips; The Hold Steady; The Lost Fingers; The Love Machine; The Mohawk Lodge; The Moody Blues; The Musical Box; The Swell Season; The Whigs; The White Wires; Timber Timbre; TJ Wheeler; Tommy Castro; Too Slim and The Taildraggers; Trevor Hall; Tye Tribbett; We Are Wolves; Weezer; Woodhands; and Yatkha, with more to be announced.
Once again, Canada’s capital city will become a music Mecca during this 12-day arts extravaganza—drawing fans from far and wide. The festival site at LeBreton Flats Park offers a variety of food and merchandise concessions and is fully licensed. Tickets go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 24.
Please, see www.ottawabluesfest.ca for detailed performance schedule and ticket information.
Hip Hop, Blues-Rock and more added to Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest LeBreton Flats line-up
Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest organizers today announced the most recent acts to be added to their line-up at the LeBreton Flats site. Lynyrd Skynyrd (July 18), K’NANN (July 15), Silverstein (July 13), Gym Class Heroes (July 13); The King Khan and BBQ Show (July 12), and The Black Keys (July 8), have all been confirmed to join the festival’s already exceptional line-up.”In keeping with past years, we always aim to deliver an exciting line-up. We feel confident that these additional acts have helped to achieve that objective,” says Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest Executive and Artistic Director, Mark Monahan.
Lynyrd Skynyrd is the definitive Southern rock band, fusing the overdrive power of blues-rock with a rebellious Southern image and a hard rock-swagger. Skynyrd never relied on jazzy improvisations. Instead, they are a hard-driving rock & roll band whose music remains firmly entrenched in blues, rock, and country.
It’s been a long and thrilling trip for Silverstein. The band has fuelled their momentum by performing on a slew of major tours, from A Taste of Chaos and Warped in the States to the Give It a Name and Download festivals in England. They topped it all off with the sold-out Never Shave Again tour-and now, the Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest.
If you heard that Gym Class Heroes were difficult to categorize in the past, with their latest release, The Quilt, it’s literally become impossible . . . and that’s meant in the best way imaginable. In fact, the follow-up to 2006’s gold-selling As Cruel As School Children doesn’t just see the band expanding on their unique blend of hip-hop, rock, soul and punk, but transcending it. This act will literally set the table for a night of mind-numbing music that will leave Bluesfest fans gasping for more!
In 2001, after gaining notoriety as a skilled MC and spoken word poet, K’NAAN was invited to Geneva to perform a spoken-word piece at the 50th anniversary of the UN Commission for Refugees. K’NAAN brought the house down. The audience was so moved by the piece that K’NAAN received a standing ovation and African superstar, Youssou N’Dour, who was also in attendance, invited K’NAAN to Senegal to record with him. K’NAAN’s, first full-length album, The Dusty Foot Philosopher, is the type of record you give to people who say they hate hip hop, then dare them to resist its charms.
With the King Khan & BBQ Show, the audience is drenched in raw energy, proving what so many music fanatics already know-this is easily one of the most highly regarded rock ‘n’ roll shows in the world.
And what more can be said about the one-two punch of the blues-rock music duo, The Black Keys other than that they have amassed a huge and loyal following-and with good reason. They put on an incredible LIVE show, attracting music fans of all stripes.
See www.ottawabluesfest.ca for complete schedule.
