The Great White North Blues

 Photos by Randy MacNeil / Feature photo: Colin Linden The Mississippi Delta, smoky clubs in Chicago, wailing out windows in Memphis and heating up the snowy streets of Toronto, one of these things is not like the other when it comes to what people generally associate with The Blues. Ottawa photographer Randy

Songwriter’s Circle is Jewel of the Junos

 Photos by Renee Doiron It is no wonder the SOCAN and Yamaha sponsored Songwriters' Circle is referred to a the "Jewel of the Junos". The event, hosted by the legendary Bruce Cockburn, was held at the National Arts Centre yesterday afternoon ahead of the big show itself.  The setting was

CONTEST: We we want to give you a slice of the JUNOs with the JUNO Songwriters’ Circle

 Canadian Music Hall of Fame inductee and 12-time JUNO Award-winner Bruce Cockburn will host and perform at the 2017 JUNO Songwriters’ Circle, to be held in the National Arts Centre's Southam Hall on Sunday, April 2, 2017 from 12pm to 2pm EST and Ottawa Life wants to send you there. This event is considered the “jewel of JUNO

Up Close and Personal with Colin James

 Canadian Music Hall of Famer and blues legend Colin James Munn may not have been born with a guitar in his hand but, considering his trajectory in childhood, it wouldn’t have been too surprising if he had been. He was a Regina, Saskatchewan kid bottle fed on the blues that