Friday night was more than alright at Lansdowne for the second evening of CityFolk Festival. The late summer, yes mid-September is technically still not fall, concert series has been steadily growing since its move to the Glebe’s Great Lawn and this edition seemed extraordinarily well attended.
City Folk Festival – Larkin Poe Steal the Show
This past Thursday, Orville Peck, The Once, Lucinda Williams, Larkin Poe and The Strumbellas fired up day one of Ottawa’s 25th City Folk Festival.
The Blue Jay Cafe’s last session hopefully wasn’t the last!
With the CCMAs over and the artists resume their touring and recording there will be one thing that will be remembered fondly about the week here in Calgary – The Oak Tree Tavern and it’s transformation into The Blue Jay Café.
Luke Bryan Sunset Repeat tour hits Budweiser Stage in Toronto
The Budweiser stage was definitely the place to be as Luke Bryan’s Sunset Repeat Tour took over Toronto this past Thursday evening.
Jonas Brothers thrill, then leave Toronto fans to perform their own encore
In kicking off their first headlining tour in nearly a decade, quite past the scheduled time, but I guess better late than never, the Jonas Brothers opened with “Rollercoaster,” straight out of their latest album, ‘Happiness Begins’ incidentally also the name of the tour.
Blue Jay Cafe songwriters circle sessions continue to be a hit
Another day another standing room only crowd at the Blue Jay Café for CCMA week in Calgary … another day of more people wishing they could have snagged a ticket.
The Nashville feel hits Calgary during CCMA week with the Blue Jay Sessions
The Oak Tree Tavern has become THE most talked about and the place to be during CCMA Week. It has been transformed into The Blue Jay Café for the week as Calgary’s version of Nashville’s legendary Bluebird Café.
Smiths Falls Has The Blues with Live At The Falls
We lost a popular blues festival this year and I was a little disappointed as I love my blues, but another festival rose to fill the void.
Beach Boys Come to Vancouver!
The Beach Boys honoured Vancouver by putting on a wonderful performance at the Pacific National Exhibition even to the point of including 3 songs at the end as an encore.
That’s a wrap on the innaugural SummerSet Music Festival
The last weekend of summer … the last day of SummerSet …it went out with a bang!