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

Invitation to the Blues

 Photos courtesy of Blues & Company Before 1993, Kevin Ficzere was living a regular life filled with bills to pay, kids to raise and work to do. Then he got the blues. First he found a guitar God. A still self-professed Hendrix junkie, Ficzere discovered the legend in the late

Supporting the Soul of the City

 Images courtesy of Bangers & Mash Ottawa Soul Music Festival. Feature image by JC Batista Photography. It rose out of black America, dipped in gospel and spiced with the rhythm, flavoured by the blues. The beat was the bible and the prophets had names like Cooke, Burke and Redding. Their

Bluesfest Beats

 Photo courtesy of Steve G The countdown to RBC Ottawa Bluesfest is on. As the weeks leading up to the festival go by, OLM will continue to highlight must-see performances by some of the acts that you may have not yet discovered – so Ottawa music lovers listen up! An exciting