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Spring Fling! Ottawa Tonite House Concert and 12for12k
This coming Friday night, a very special event will be taking place in Ottawa – two amazing local performers, Lindsay Ferguson and Ken Voita, will be playing a house concert in Ottawa’s west end.
As a special addition to the evening, we’ll also be raising some money and awareness for 12for12k.org’s April Charity, Boundless. Adrian Meissner from Boundless will be on hand to talk to the audience about the great work they do, and I’ll be there too to share the message about 12for12k.
If you are in Ottawa, I hope you can make it! The show starts at 7pm ET, and you can purchase tickets here.
If you’re not in the Ottawa area, all is not lost! We’ll be live streaming the show on this site and also over at www.ottawatonite.com, the web site that is hosting the concert.
Special thanks to 12for12k’er Allan Isfan for putting on this terrific event!
Here’s a special sneak preview of what you can expect on Friday night!
Blown off my seat
Perhaps a little more than a year ago, I found a superstar playing music up in Quebec, just 3o minutes from Ottawa.
Lindsay Ferguson
On that beautiful Sunday afternoon, I shuffled into The Blacksheep Inn with my daughters to check out some live music after exploring the beautiful town of Wakefield, Quebec. There were three female singers on the stage taking turns singing their original songs and playing the guitar. They were all very good but when Lindsay Ferguson started singing I nearly fell off my chair – and my daughters, all of a sudden, started really paying attention.
I couldn’t believe the beautiful, velvety voice coming out the singer with the fiery red hair. It just took us all away on an amazing musical journey. My daughters fell in love with Lindsay Ferguson and her music. We purchased and listened to her CD all the way home and they even listened to it in their room at bedtime memorizing most of the songs. Since then, we’ve seen her play at the Ottawa Bluesfest, invited her to headline at Isfan Palooza (our yearly backyard music fest), had her open the TEDx Ottawa proceedings and try to catch her shows whenever possible. It seems the Ottawa Citizen had already discovered her, naming her 2007 album “SOUND” the second best Canadian album of the year.
When I was invited to host an Ottawa Tonite house concert there was no doubt Lindsay would be headlining. Our guests will be blown away as I was the first time I heard her sing. This time, it will be in a super intimate house concert where you get to be up close and personal with someone headed for stardom. We will also be joined by Ken Voita, himself an amazing singer/song writer that is the talk of the Ottawa Tonite community.
Event: Spring Fling House Concert with Lindsay Ferguson and Ken Voita
Cost: $20 in advance, $25 at the door (all $$ goes to the musicians)
Time: $ 7pm, Friday, April 9th
Location: Stittsville (those who manage to get a ticket will get detailed directions)
Contact: allan.isfan at gmail dot com
Tickets have already been on sale for a week so please contact me for availability.
If there are tickets left, I’ll provide you the info so you can purchase them online in advance!
Acoustic Afternoon Series
Come one and all to the first edition of the Acoustic Afternoon Concert Series, this Saturday, January 9th (4pm) at the Rainbow Bistro.
Presented by Ottawa Tonite contributor and local character, Maxim Cossette. This “pay what you can” series will run every Saturday afternoon from 4pm- 7pm (except the last Saturday of the month) until the end of April. The aim is to bring you the best established and unknown, traditional and contemporary acoustic musicians from the Ottawa area.
Over the next few months, you’ll see Ottawa mainstays like Lefty McRighty and Amanda Rheaume, breakthrough artists like L. Poushinsky and Ken Voita as well as underground heros and future folk stars like John Aaron Cockburn and Kara Askwith.
So come celebrate the first concert in this bound-to-be-stellar succession of passionate performances and unforgettable moments.
For more information and artists profiles go to http://acousticafternoon.wordpress.com/
See you at the party!
-Maxim
