Hearing Double with The LYNNeS

 Feature photo by Brittany Gawley A cold wind blows down Bank Street. Ottawa doesn’t have tumbleweeds but a Loblaws bag waltzes with the wind and vanishes around a corner. A streetlight flickers as two musicians slinging six strings step into the winter sleet. Both are singer-songwriters. Both came with an arsenal of

Shawna Caspi Brings Forest Fire for Ottawa Homecoming

 Photos by Roni Hoffman Shawna Caspi may currently be strumming out of Toronto but the musician still hasn’t forgotten her Ottawa roots. They were planted pretty deep in some of the city’s most musical fertile ground. She bought her first acoustic guitar at the Ottawa Folklore Centre, volunteered at CKCU

Learn Laugh and Listen at Recovery Day Ottawa Benefit

 Images courtesy of Recovery Day Ottawa People with addictions are weak. They bring it on themselves. They are just lazy.  They need to grow up. These are the types of stereotypical misconceptions people like Gord Garner strive to remove every day. As the Festival Producer for Ottawa’s annual Recovery Day, Garner

Jazz at the Crossroads

 All photos courtesy of Andre Gagne “Here we are at the Crossroads,” begins Petr Cancura, glancing back at the band. His hand is raised, poised and ready. The band awaits the first sign post on this evening’s journey. Picture yourself nursing your third drink in a lounge on a Canadian

The Gospel of Nick Drake — Coming to a church near you

 British poet and singer-songwriter Nick Drake was not the kind of musician, admittedly, that I'd had much exposure to, or even had much knowledge of, when my appetite for music first kicked in. My exposure to Drake had always consisted primarily of other songwriters' mentions of him: people like Elvis