Our nation’s capital is bustling with winter festivities and beginning last year the Ottawa Ice Dragon Boat Festival got in on the fun hosting the 1st ice dragon boat festival in North America.

Twin Flames @ Canadian Folk Music Awards (Bronson Centre). Photo by Els Durnford (@elsdurnford)

This year with the title of World’s Largest ice dragon boat festival with 100 teams going head to head as well as a variety of programming including Chinese Lion Dancers, First Nations Dancers, Face Painters and plenty of other attractions.

Amos the Transparent, Blacksheep Inn,
Dec. 23rd, 2017
Photo by Jen Derbach

The Ottawa Ice Dragon Boat Festival is bringing some of the best names in indie music together for February 9th & 10th at Lago Bar & Grill in the Dow’s Lake Pavilion.

The lineup includes the likes of Kalle Mattson and Birds of Bellwoods on Friday and Julian Taylor, Amos The Transparent, Twin Flames, Rory Taillon and The Lionyls on Saturday. Oh and the best part, the entire thing is FREE. For full details visit www.icedragonboat.ca