We found last-minute tickets for the 2023 Ottawa Bluesfest in Ottawa, ON, CA from July 12-16. Here's how you can see Foo Fighters, Ludacris, The Smile, Mumford and Sons, Fleet Foxes, Pitbull, The ...

Mark Monahan, the co-founder and executive director of Bluesfest, found himself at this year’s festival casting back a couple of decades to the event’s four-year stint at Ottawa City Hall.

Pretty much everyone, judging by the way fans sang along and kicked up their heels to Doyle’s feel-good fare. Captain Kidd and Old Black Rum were two of the folky nuggets, while Consequence Free and ...

Bluesfest is Ottawa’s biggest summer music festival, a nine-day, multi-stage extravaganza that takes place on the grounds of (and inside) the Canadian War Museum at LeBreton Flats Park.

Ottawa-raised flutist Tariq Amery, right, brings his jazz party band Funk Yo Self to the 2025 edition of Bluesfest on July 16. PHOTO BY JEAN-CLAUDE BATISTA The networking is part of the appeal for ...

Bluesfest Day 5: Def Leppard dishes out the hits, Tom Morello urges resistance Despite the ongoing heat warning, it was one of the festival’s biggest nights so far in 2025, and a must-see for ...

Ottawa Bluesfest is a lot more than blues Now in its 30th year, Ottawa Bluesfest will be held July 4-14 at Lebreton Flats in Ottawa.

There’s a new word floating around social media that describes Ottawa Bluesfest perfectly. Polyjamorous is an adjective that mashes up “poly,” which is a prefix for many, “jam,” as in musical jams, ...

No one would’ve blamed Ottawa Bluesfest ticket holders for skipping out on last Saturday’s shows. While the intensity of the showers waxed and waned, they were pretty consistent all day ...

Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest executive director Mark Monahan is set to hold a news conference 11 a.m. ET to discuss the stage collapse that sent three people to hospital and thousands fleeing for cover.

TORONTO -- The main stage at Ottawa Bluesfest collapsed Sunday night during a Cheap Trick concert as a severe thunderstorm sent the musicians and thousands of fans running for cover. At least five ...

The stage at the Ottawa Bluesfest came tumbling down during a thunderstorm Sunday. The members of Cheap Trick, who were on stage at the time, escaped injury, but at least five others were hurt.