While this October’s Friday the 13th will no doubt be a time for early Halloween parties, dancing ghoulishly, and watching movies about men with chainsaws and too much free time, it will also be a great weekend to enjoy fall weather as Ottawa gears down from its perennially overwhelming festival season.
New shows are being added to the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival lineup, and sources at the fest say there’s more to come.
As Canada Day approaches in the nation’s capital, I can’t help feeling a growing sense of pride for the funny quirks this country has to offer. The performance of Groenland, a band from Montreal, at Jazzfest Saturday night, had a uniquely Canadian flavour to it. Groenland, a self-described indie pop orchestra, performs all their songs […]
Five years ago in Montreal, Sabrina Halde and Jean-Vivier Lévesque started a project that would soon become Groenland. Halde describes the six-person group including her, Lévesque, Gabrielle Girard-Charest, Ariane Gruet-Pelchat, Simon Gosselin and Jonathan Charette, as an indie pop orchestra. “It was my first original project and I kind of wanted it to be big,” […]
Vankleek Hill, a small beautiful community an hour east of Ottawa, was the place to be this past weekend as 14,000 attendees experienced Beau’s Brewery 6th annual Oktoberfest. For those unfamiliar with this German-inspired, beer-soaked celebration, it dates back to October 12, 1810, when the German Crown Prince Ludwig married Princess Therese. They threw one […]
Lancement de la programmation de Scène 1425 Fallait être là samedi soir dernier. Le lancement de la programmation hiver-printemps de Scène 1425 Gatineau a généré tout un flot d’émotions musicales dans la salle Jean Despréz. Pour souligner l’événement, deux bands surprises ont fait trembler les planches. Jason Bajada a introduit le spectacle avec chaleur. La […]
Par Cindy Savard, une moitié de Basement 819, émission de radio bientôt en onde sur CHUO 89,1 FM et en balladodiffusion sur Apt613.ca. Et voilà une naissance qui était essentielle! Groenland a officiellement pris vie en avril 2013 avec un premier album The Chase. Montréalais et talentueux, ils ont pris par surprise pas mal de monde. […]
