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Lord Huron plays moody set on Bluesfest's main stage, drawing smaller-than-usual crowd
The Los Angeles indie rockers delivered haunting soundscapes Friday night, with 'The Night We Met' prompting a flurry of cellphone...
Ottawa film office explores temporary soundstage options while permanent facility awaits city review
The film office has been checking former Hudson's Bay stores as it waits for peer review of its $40M soundstage proposal on Woodroffe Avenue.
National Gallery opens two Indigenous art exhibitions this summer
Qillaniq, co-curated by an all-Indigenous circumpolar team, runs through September 20, while Women Carvers on the Northwest Coast closes July 26.
Brìghde Chaimbeul brings Scottish smallpipes to NAC's Fourth Stage on July 21
The Celtic experimentalist and master of the mellower smallpipes takes the stage at 7:30 p.m. Under30 tickets available for $15.
Independent cinemas screen Kurosawa, rotoscoped sci-fi, and a time-travel fishing drama through July
The ByTowne and Mayfair are showing Rashomon, A Scanner Darkly, and Rose of Nevada—films worth escaping the heat for.
After 15 years busking outside Bluesfest, bagpiper Nico Gravel is calling it quits
Gravel, a fixture on Booth Street during the festival, says the shift to cashless payments has made busking unsustainable. He's heading...
Singer-songwriter Allison Russell builds community through music amid political division
The Grammy winner's new album 'In the Hour of Chaos' brings together women-of-colour collaborators to create what she calls 'joyful...
OMIC releases bicentennial song blending four languages and musical traditions
"Heart of This Place" features Ottawa musicians including Amanda Rheaume and combines pop, rap, and Indigenous throat-singing to...
Pinesi Paddle traces historic Algonquin river routes
A three-day canoe journey from Ottawa to Kahnawake, Quebec retraces paths travelled by Algonquin ancestors and honours Chief Pinesi's legacy.
Six films worth catching at Ottawa's indie cinemas this July
From Ryan Gosling's space odyssey to a Vivaldi period drama, Ottawa's independent theatres are screening new releases and restored...
Richmond Road resident's toothpick orchestra headed to NAC
Go Sato spent three years crafting a 75-musician orchestra from 12,500 toothpicks, and it's now part of the National Arts Centre's...
Ottawa Deadhead became the Grateful Dead's archivist
David Lemieux, 55, has managed the band's vault for more than 25 years—from his family's Manor Park basement to the San Francisco...
