Bluesfest Music Festival – July 4-15
No one knows why it’s called Bluesfest, and I doubt we will ever find out. For our friends up North, this week kicks off Bluesfest: a 12-day Canadian Music Festival in the capital city which a). should not be mistaken for a “Blues Festival” and b). is in Ottawa, aye? (contrary to Canadian Bacon, the capital is Not Toronto!)
Bluesfest may have nothing to do with blues music, but it’s still a great time of year for government employees to stop pretending they work, and indie music fans from all over North America to flood the city and party until a stage collapses. This year has a great lineup you can check out after the jump:
What to look forward to: Other than being excited to boo Chad Kroeger of Nickelback and grind your significant other (or willing proximity other) to Seal’s “Kissed by a Rose” while eating poutine, you should keep on the peg for:
Beirut, Pretty Lights, Mustard Pimp, Grimes, Big Boi of Outkast, A$AP Rocky, Diplo, Felix Cartal, MSTRKRFT, The WEEKND, Tyga and Deltron 3030, who will be playing some of their new material off of their upcoming album: Event II. The show will consist of the Deltron core (Dan the Automator, Del the Funky Homosapien and Kid Koala), along with drums, guitar, keyboards AND the “Deltron Orchestra” – You can expect 16 additional band members which incorporate strings, horns and background vocals.
Our Ottawa envoy Darcy Ujjainwalla will be covering all the shows, so if you see him at the festival, stop on over and say “hi” and tell him who you’re excited to see. And maybe, just maybe, he will hook you up with a Discosalt T-shirt (while quantities last of course).
