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RBC Bluesfest organizers have announced their 2019 lineup, and as could be expected, it comes boasting a seriously impressive list of acts....
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NewsWatch This Stagecrasher Get Wrecked at Rae Sremmurd's Ottawa Bluesfest Show Published Jul 16, 2018Ottawa's RBC Bluesfest put a wrap on two weeks of music-making in the nation's capital this past weekend, and while the fest gave one local...
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ReviewsSturgill Simpson RBC Bluesfest, Ottawa ON, July 13 Published Jul 14, 2018Sturgill Simpson is a lot of things to many people: a modern day country outlaw, a hard-hitting soul artist, a cosmic warrior, a father. ...
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ReviewsNoname RBC Bluesfest, Ottawa ON, July 12 Published Jul 13, 2018From the moment she stepped onto the Bluesfest main stage for her 6 p.m. set, Noname seemed bewildered and surprised that anyone actually kn...
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ReviewsCourtney Barnett RBC Bluesfest, Ottawa ON, July 11 Published Jul 12, 2018About 24 hours after the Foo Fighters brought their slickly orchestrated rock'n'roll revue to Ottawa, it took an unassuming 30-year-old from...
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ReviewsDave Matthews Band RBC Bluesfest, Ottawa ON, July 11 Published Jul 12, 2018The Dave Matthews Band are at a strange point in their career and the zeitgeist as a whole. On one hand, their recent album — Come Tomor...
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ReviewsM. Ward RBC Bluesfest, Ottawa ON, July 10 Published Jul 11, 2018It seemed like a questionable idea for the organizers of Ottawa's Bluesfest to set up ten rows of folding chairs in front of the tented Clar...
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ReviewsFoo Fighters RBC Bluesfest, Ottawa ON, July 10 Published Jul 11, 2018In the lead-up to the release of the Foo Fighters' ninth studio album, last year's ambitious and ostentatious magnum rock opus Concrete and...
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ReviewsGreta Van Fleet RBC Bluesfest, Ottawa ON, July 10 Published Jul 11, 2018On the surface, Greta Van Fleet — the Michigan-bred, four-piece rock band — look like the kind of thing David Fricke dreams about. They...
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ReviewsGhostface Killah RBC Bluesfest, Ottawa ON, July 7 Published Jul 08, 2018Ottawa's RBC Bluesfest has had a divisive relationship with hip-hop in recent years. Back in 2015, the inclusion of Kanye West sparked s...
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ReviewsThe War on Drugs RBC Bluesfest, Ottawa ON, July 6 Published Jul 07, 2018In 2014, while sharing a timeslot at the Ottawa Folk Festival with the War on Drugs, Mark Kozelek unceremoniously referred to the band's sou...
