The Lumière Festival, is a lead-up period of preparations for the Evening of Light Celebration held this year on September 4th.

There are lantern-making workshops, performance workshops and community outreach initiatives which are designed to encourage people to connect and share their creations and see those of other participants in a celebration of light and community.

Teri Loretto learned more about the Lumière Festival and some of  the intricacies of lamp making on behalf of Ottawa Tonite.

The What:

The How:

To learn more, or to become a participant in the 2010 Lumière Festival join a workshop at the CCCC!
Find out more about the lantern and performance workshops here.

The Lumière Festival runs from August 13th – September 9th

Workshops take place at the Crichton Cultural Community Centre 2nd floor, 200 Crichton Street
To register for our workshops contact the CCCC at (613)745-2742  or  communitycentre@rogers.com

They have taken the songs on leaving fallow field and created an ethereal departure to the production sound of the disc.

Both live set and record are very much in compliment to one another – both should be experienced.

Hinterlandband’s Colin Wylie sat down with CKCU FM’s Dick Alta Vista and shared stories and songs.

Interview Part 2:

Hinterlandband Performs Part 1:

Hinterlandband Performs Part 2:

Hinterlandband performs tonight at Ottawa’s Elmdale House Tavern with opener Matt Ouimet’s Friend on Friends
Thursday August 19 – 9:00 PM ($5)

For more information check out Hinterlandband’s MySpace here.

Expect some of the ‘unexpected’ from this band of bluegrass players who will have you up on your feet dancing at their jam sessions!

Band members include: John Steele – Banjo Voice, Gilles Leclerc – Mandolin Voice, Michael Ball – Upright Bass Voice,  Stu Rutherford – Dobro Voice, PJ Baker – Guitar Voice  and  “Pauly” Roberto – Guitar Voice.

Emma Godmere spent a few moments chatting with Pauly at the Ottawa Folk Festival, and learned about his major bluegrass addiction.

Video by Kevin Burton

Check out The Dusty Drifters on Bluegrass Sunday Nights at Irene’s Pub.

Visit their MySpace for more information: http://www.myspace.com/thedustydrifters

In the meantime, enjoy a review of our coverage of the local news and views from the fest…

If you want to see the video playlist in a larger window, click here.

Video by Kevin Burton

Limited daytime programming in the Bowie hall stage.
As of Sunday, 12:30pm, the evening concerts will proceed as scheduled, subject to change of venue!

We’re going to have maximum fun while keeping everyone safe!

Keep checking the Ottawa Folk Fest web site for updates: http://www.ottawafolk.org/

Today we are presenting a “BEST OF” LIVE @Ottawa Folk Festival show, with plenty of moments captured before, during and between the great concerts happening down at the OFF!

Today (Sunday) at 5pm ET we’ll be playing back our “best of” playlist with a few new videos from Friday and Saturday as well.

Enjoy the show!
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Chris sat down with Ottawa Tonite in anticipation of her appearance at this year’s Ottawa Folk Festival and shared some of her magical performance with us…

 Chris MacLean – Let Yourself In

Chris MacLean will be playing workshops at the Folk Festival’s PSAC Moon stage in Britannia Park from 2-4pm on Saturday, August 14th and in concert on Sunday, August 15th from 2-3pm on the Point Stage.

For more information about the festival, head to ottawafolk.org — and stay tuned to Ottawa Tonite, as we will be live-streaming coverage of the festival every day this weekend at 3pm!

Video by Kevin Burton