Music concerts in Ottawa/Gatineau
Upcoming notable concerts/shows in Ottawa
April 23: Fleetwood Mac - Scotiabank Place May 2: Rihanna - Scotiabank Place May 14: Motley Crue & Big Wreck - Scotiabank Place June 4: New Kids on the Block, 98 Degrees, Boyz II Men - Scotiabank Place June 14-15: Rancid, Lamb of God, Alice Cooper, The Offspring, Rise Against, Marilyn Manson, Deftones, Pennywise, Lagwagon and many more - Amnesia Rockfest in Montebello June 26: Aretha Franklin - Confederation Park June 29-30: Ferry Corsten, Rusko, Markus Schulz, Chus & Ceballos, Benny Benassi at more TBA - Escapade Music Festival - outdoors at the RA Centre July 1: Tiesto - Escapade Music Festival - outdoors in the Byward Market July 4: Black Keys, Grand Funk Railroad, The Cat Empire, Jimmy Eat World - Bluesfest July 5: Flogging Molly, Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters - Bluesfest July 6: Dixie Chicks, Zeds Dead - Bluesfest July 7: The Joy Formidable, Tegan and Sara, Fun., Wu-Tang Clan, Everlast - Bluesfest July 7: Paul McCartney - Scotiabank Place July 8: Mother Mother, RUSH - Bluesfest July 10: Marianas Trench, Weezer, Animal Collective - Bluesfest July 11: The Tragically Hip - Bluesfest July 12: Matthew Good, Great Big Sea - Bluesfest July 13: Bjork - Bluesfest July 13: H.O.P.E. Volleyball Summerfest - lineup TBA - Mooney's Bay July 14: Yukon Blonde, Alice in Chains, B.B. King, Serena Ryder - Bluesfest July 15: The Eagles - Scotiabank Place September 5-8: Ottawa Folk Festival - lineup TBA - Hog's Back Park July 23: Justin Bieber - Scotiabank Place July 25: KISS & Shinedown - Scotiabank Place August 22: Selena Gomez - Scotiabank Place Aug 30-Sep 2: Gatineau Hot Air Balloon Festival - lineup TBA - parc de la Baie Sep 4-8: Festival Outaouais Émergent - lineup TBA - outdoors downtown Hull September 14: Sarah Brightman - Scotiabank Place Monster music summer for Ottawa? Elton John-Billy Joel among major shows to be announced By DENIS ARMSTRONG, Sun Media Ottawa could be on the brink of one of its biggest summers of music in recent memory. Promoter Live Nation is expected to join with Ottawa Mayor Larry O'Brien and others on Monday to announce at least one, and likely several, major acts coming to the city in June, July and August. What's known for sure is that they will announce that superstars Elton John and Billy Joel will play Scotiabank Place on June 1. Normally, concert promoters don't use the city's mayor and other celebrities to make concert announcements. Which means that Live Nation believes it might have even bigger fish to fry for Ottawa. By Monday the promoter hopes to have confirmed dates for rock legends AC/DC, Canadian rockers Nickelback and the Jonas Brothers, the latter for Scotiabank Place in August. Also rumoured to be in the works are major concert events by Bruce Springsteen, U2 and a two-day Virgin Festival, possibly later this summer. The Virgin Festival is a North American spin-off of Britain's V Festival. Virgin chairman Richard Branson, who announced the inaugural Canadian show in Toronto in 2006, was in Ottawa Tuesday for the promotional launch of Virgin Radio, the rock station formerly known as The Bear 106.9. |
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Holding a two-day Virgin Festival, along with the existing Bluesfest, would put Ottawa in the top tier of live music cities in North America. And those acts mentioned in the article are the top touring acts in the world right now. Even if you're not a fan, I don't see how them performing in Ottawa could be anything but good news for the city. I, myself, am more of an indie music fan, but I welcome any concert announcements that raise the profile of the city as a live music venue. |
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Still not sure where O'Brien fits into all of this. |
AC/DC is the only one I'd buy tickets for. Elton John, Nickelback and Billy Joel, I have no interest in seeing, but I see how those will be good concerts for the city to host. :tup:
Black Ice, AC/DC's new album, rocks!! |
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AC/DC to me are a cartoon band, akin to the Rolling Stones since about 1971...churning out the same stuff over and over again, a la Status Quo. |
Jonas Brothers?
*shudder* :rolleyes: |
Too bad they're in Europe most/all of the summer, otherwise I'd suggest the powers that be go after Metallica for a massive outdoor concert. I would pay a lot of money to attend that.
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There is also Airbourne, who sound a lot like them and have played here a couple of times, they have their own material (not a cover band at all) and they sound really good. It's good party rock. This aside, another band I'd really love to see is Gov't Mule - they would be a perfect BluesFest show. |
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In terms of being generous I can put up with indulgences and dabblings that most people don't appreciate of: Roxy Music, Brian Eno, Genesis (pre Gabriel leaving), Bob Dylan, Laughin' Lennie, Joni Mitchell, Fairport Convention, Madness, Miles Davis, Dave Bruebeck, Pulp, Stone Roses etc. |
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Metallica almost always comes to Ottawa when they do extensive arena tours (such as after an album release ... which they had a few months ago). I expect them to be here next fall/winter. I just wish we could have them in the summer for a massive outdoor gig ... picturing 10s of thousands in attendance. That would be so sweet.
I also hope to some day see Dream Theater do an Ottawa gig. Those guys are incredible. |
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Wow, I guess I'm the only one who's into big breasted Swedish singers.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59jcoymbI1k http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeIrYiO-LnY I've always been a fan of Tess Merkel from Alcazar, she looks slutty into all her vids. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_FF3S77xxg |
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BTW this just in from Russia with Love. http://chickencrap.com/c.php?c=2295 |
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If you want gorgeous and singer then you can't go wrong with: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=DTy3WA...x=0&playnext=1 http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ig3EjNlKP5M (warning...excessive alcohol consumption can make you sing like Shane McGowan) http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=xz07Hf5htfY (this one goes back to the early 80's....ahh,, CFNY memories) Watching this video will make you get back to work....see how long you can stomach this dreck..... http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=r-vx4GcjASE |
Virgin Music festival in Ottawa? Where would it be? Lebreton Flats? Any news on this?
As for all the other announcements, I would be more excited if these were scheduled for outdoor summer dates, and not indoors in an arena far from the city in Kanata, I hate going to concerts there. |
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