MEDIA MARKETING REPORT - Ottawa Jazz Festival

MEDIAMARKETINGREPORT2016 TD Ottawa Jazz Festival

602-294 Albert Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1P 6E6T: 613-241-2633 │ OttawaJazzFestival.com

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OVERVIEW

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O’ CANADA! To celebrate and encourage the richness of music in Canada, more than 500 of the musicians were Canadian including Grammy Award winner Sarah McLachlan and Golden Globe winner Buffy Sainte-Marie.

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TD Ottawa Jazz Festival June 22 - July 3, 2016

4 NEW SERIESJazz 2016 was a celebration of some new vibes and new concepts. Free Jibber Jazz Jam Alongs at Confederation Park’s fountain, an intimate Discovery Series at the National Arts Centre Back Stage, a Jazz Warriors Series at the NAC Theatre and a free Mystery Series all made 2016 a truly innovative year.

In 2016, the 12 day festival showcased 875 MUSICIANS performing in 116 CONCERTS in the heart of the Nation’s Capital on 9 DIFFERENT STAGES in 10 UNIQUE SERIES.

“Rare in delivering lineups that seem to get better and better every year, it’s truly a luxury to live in a city where the jazz festival has remained unequivocally a jazz festival...”

– John Kelman, All About Jazz

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TOP 20 FESTIVALS & EVENTS IN ONTARIO The Province of Ontario continues to bestow a Level of Distinction in the top 20 category to the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival.

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INNOVATIVE PROGRAMMINGThe OJF presents diverse, daring and cutting edge programming that attracts audiences of all ages.

SALES RECORD Early bird pass and ticket sales were higher than ever in 2016. Gold circle tickets sold out in record time.

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SOCIAL MEDIAWith over 17K followers on Twitter and 7K likes on Facebook, the Festival has grown tremendously throughout the last few years on Social Media. A new OttawaJazz Instagram account was created in 2016, drawing 1,500+ followers in only a few months.

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“The TD Ottawa Jazz Festival has always been a place to discover new music with enough choice and selection overlap you’d need a couple of clones to really take in all the festival has to offer each year.” – Andre Gagne, Ottawa Life

4 SOLD OUT SERIES The three series held at the National Arts Centre and the OLG After Dark series at the Tartan Homes Stage were completely sold-out.

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Mayor @JimWatsonOttawa just declared June 23, 2016 #CatherineOGradyDay! Congrats @jazzcog!

8 FREE CONCERTSIn 2016, the OJF presented 52 free concerts out of 116!


Top June Media Tweet earned 6,040 impressions


BOARD OF DIRECTORSPresidentGavin McLintock

Past PresidentLouise Meagher

Vice PresidentRick Brooks

Volunteer Co-ordinatorJohn Cvetan

TreasurerLee Tessmer

SecretaryTom Burrow

Executive ProducerCatherine O’Grady

Chantal Smith, Eric Sladic, Peter Stephens, Poppy Vineberg

VOLUNTEERSMore than 640 people dedicate their time, services and expertise to the Festival. Volunteers eagerly anticipate the start of the Festival and often take vacation time, some traveling from overseas, to participate. Their contributions result in a collective 24,000 hours of volunteer time.

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2016 STAFFExecutive ProducerCatherine O’Grady

Programming ManagerPetr Cancura

Director of Marketing & PartnershipsSuzan Zilahi

Sponsorship & Business Development ManagerDawson Hamilton

Artistic Associate & Programming CoordinatorJacqie MacKay

Creative Director & WebmasterJulie-Anne Madore

Graphic Design AssistantSu-Hui Chu

Operations ManagerAdi Cajo

Artist LiaisonsMatt Gower, Caalvin Jno-Finn, Ben Emond

Special Events CoordinatorCheryl Mihalin

Media & Marketing CoordinatorJM Francheteau

Media & Marketing AssistantNick Schiavo

Operations CoordinatorsChris Elms, Charles Meness, Jordan David

Box OfficeJulian Selody, Joey Gagnon, Lovedyne Dumont

BookkeeperJacqueline Embleton

Production Manager & Backline CoordinatorGrant Young

Community Coordinator & Artist LiaisonJulie Campbell

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FRONTLINE

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Supportive sponsors like TD, OLG and the CF Rideau Centre, and funders like Celebrate Ontario, allow the Festival to present a lineup that focuses on artistry above all else.

DONORS & FRIENDSDonors and Friends of the Festival contribute nearly $30,000 toward our youth and jazz outreach programs. This funding is critical to the overall success of the event. It provides the resources to allow the Festival to continue to reach out to up-and-coming young jazz artists and to give them an opportunity to participate in the Festival in a dynamic way.

Outreach programs include:a Youth Seriesa TD Jazz Youth Summita Stingray Rising Starsa Presenting more than 500 local and Canadian jazz musicians who rely on festivals for their livelihood

GOVERNMENT SUPPORTThe Festival continues to receive vital support from all levels of government. We gratefully acknowledge the following:

Federal:a Department of Canadian Heritagea National Capital Commission

Provincial:a Trillium Foundation (Ontario)a Yours to Discover Ontarioa Ontario Arts Councila Employment Ontario

Municipal:a City of Ottawaa Community Fountation of Ottawa

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For two years now, the Festival’s lineup has been announced live on CBC’s All In A Day – Ottawa’s #1 drive home show with host Alan Neal. The announcement was also streamed live on ottawajazzfestival.com.

According to Google Analytics, the website earned 4,119 visits that day, that’s 20% more than in 2015.

Launch activity resulted in 67K+ Twitter impressions and a Facebook Total Reach of more than 32K. Exclaim! News, Ottawa Magazine, Ottawa Tourism as well as numerous festivals and international artists participated in the conversation online.

Our launch announcement was covered on local CBC News and then appeared online nationally. Articles also appeared in the Ottawa Sun, the Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa Start and Ottawa Life just to name a few.

Ottawa Jazz Festival @OttawaJazzCheck the lineup! We have a ltd number of Early Bird Passes available at last year’s price! ottawajazzfestival.com

Top Tweet earned 12.7K impressions

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LAUNCHWednesday March 16th, 2016

Top Facebook Post reached 11.6K people

Ottawa Jazz Festival │ March 16, 2016The 2016 line-up is on our website now! Buy your early bird passes before they are all gone! ottawajazzfestival.com

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CBC’s Alan Neal and the Festival’s Programming Manager Petr Cancura on All In A Day

Photo below: Programming Manager Petr Cancura discusses the 2016 lineup on TV with Adrian Harewood on CBC Ottawa News. © Suzan Zilahi

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T O M S P E A R S

The day after a 16-year-old girl was stabbed near a tent village before she fought off her attacker, Gatin-eau police charged a 49-year-old with trying to kill her near a tent village behind her school.

Marc Bellfoy, 49, was charged Wednesday afternoon with at-tempted murder, two counts of aggravated assault, assault with a weapon and two charges of breaching bail conditions in the attack of a girl who was on her way home from École secondaire de l’Île.

The investigation was continu-ing and more charges could be laid, police said.

On Wednesday, Gatineau police said Bellfoy’s last known address was at Le Gîte Ami, a nearby home-less shelter at 85 Rue Morin.

A relative of Bellfoy told the Citizen that the man had struggled with a drug addiction for years but declined to comment further. Me-lissa Bellfoy said she hasn’t spoken to her cousin in 20 years, but back then he drank heavily and was often violent when he was intoxi-cated.

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OP I N I O N

$1.52 plus tax at retail $1.76 in outlying areas

BASE RENOS GO UNUSEDThe Liberal government spent millions of dollars renovating buildings at six military bases to house Syrian refugees, but none of them needed to use the facilities. Hundreds of soldiers were moved to accommodate as many as 6,200 newcomers. NP4

CITY COUNCILLOR RETURNS FIRE

Coun. Jody Mitic, practising at the Stittsville Shooting Ranges on Wednesday, says there is

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You know who liked the envi-ronment? Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, the Ontario Progressive Conservatives are very keen to have you realize.

Or, rather, they’re keen to have reluctant Progressive Conserva-

tives realize, as those habitual Tories try to figure out what to do with a leader who wants to fight climate change by making greenhouse-gas emitters pay.

Those loyalists were stunned when leader Patrick Brown announced his support in a major Ottawa speech for using carbon permits to fight climate change. His own MPPs didn’t see it com-ing, let alone the rank and file. Brown had opposed carbon pric-ing when he ran for the leader-ship less than a year ago.

Tough sell for Brown on carbon pricing to PCs

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Big-name jazz will return to the 2016 TD Ottawa Jazz Festival’s mainstage in June, along with Sarah McLachlan, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Brian Wilson.

In recent years, the festival has tended to fill its main concert se-ries in Confederation Park with mainstream and crossover acts. This year’s event, which will run from June 23 to July 3, will fea-ture three all-star jazz groups in the park — the eight-piece SF Jazz Collective, playing Michael Jackson songs and original music, on June 24; the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis on June 29; and pianist Chick Corea with bassist Chris-tian McBride and drummer Brian Blade on June 30.

Five other mainstage concerts will showcase singer-songwrit-ers. Vancouver-based McLachlan performs June 25. High-ener-gy R&B star Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings return to the park June 26. Sainte-Marie, the winner of this year’s Polaris Prize, plays June 28.

U.S. rapper and musician Michael Franti plays July 2, and on July 3, former Beach Boy Wilson will cel-ebrate the 50th anniversary of his classic Pet Sounds album by per-forming it in its entirety, joined by

fellow Beach Boys Al Jardine and Blondie Chaplin.

On June 23 blues legends Elvin Bishop and harmonica king Char-lie Musselwhite take the main-stage, and organizers say they may have a surprise to announce for that day, as well. On June 27, the always popular Trombone Shorty will be back.

As in previous years, the festival is staging indoor concerts at the

National Arts Centre. For the first time, the festival is making use of the NAC’s Theatre, where it will hold three shows.

The first, on June 22, a day before the festival officially gets under-way, features Los Angeles-based saxophonist Kamasi Washington, whose groovy three-CD release The Epic was a critics’ favourite last year. Washington has a lot of hip-hop cachet because he has worked with such artists as Ken-drick Lamar, Lauryn Hill, Snoop Dogg and Thundercat.

On June 25, the reunited quar-tet of guitarist John Scofield and saxophonist Joe Lovano, another jazz all-star formation, plays the NAC Theatre.

On July 2, the London, U.K.-based singer Stacey Kent, who performed at the festival in 2014, brings her smooth sound to the Theatre.

ALL THAT JAZZ

Sarah McLachlan will play the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival, which runs June 23 to July 3. Venues include the National Arts Centre and Confederation Park. F I L E S

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Genre giants Marsalis, Corea top fest alongside pop of Sarah

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When: June 23 to July 3Where: National Arts Centre, Confederation Park, Marion Dewar PlazaTickets and information: ottawajazzfestival.com

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It’s a heartbreaking piece of foot-age: a volunteer goes about her morning routine of retrieving tiny, dead songbirds from Toronto sidewalks as passersby hurry about their business. The cause of death? Migrating at night and confused by the bright lights of tall buildings, the birds died when they collided with windows.

The footage is part of Toronto-based filmmaker and multimedia artist Su Rynard’s documentary The Messenger, which opens at the ByTowne Cinema on March 18. At once elegiac and a hopeful call to action, the award-winning film is an unsettling look at the plight of the world’s songbirds, a vast and di-verse range of creatures — warblers, orioles, thrushes, and tanagers among them — whose population has shrunk by half since the 1960s.

The decline seems a certain warning of dire environmental

things to come, a kind of canary in the coal mine of the planet’s eco-system.

The film journeys from the boreal forest to Germany to a coffee plan-tation in Costa Rica as it tracks rea-sons for the decline of songbirds, from habitat loss to the predation of domestic cats to the spreading use of the worrisome agricultural insecticide neonicotinoids. Along the way, we’re treated to gorgeous footage of birds, the music of their songs, and commentary by a lively, committed group of ornithologists and others.

Rynard, whose earlier works include the dramatic feature film Kardia, says The Messenger grew out of the slow disappearance of songbirds from around her family’s cottage.

“We used to say, ‘Oh, why don’t we see this or that bird anymore? Remember when we couldn’t fall asleep because the whippoorwills were singing so loudly?’ ”

Reading Silence of the Songbird, by Bridget Stutchbury, one of the commentators in the film, let Ry-nard connect her personal experi-ence to a worldwide phenomenon. From that came the film.

“We’re trying to make an emo-tional experience and a cinematic experience,” she says. “And to do that you strike a very fine balance between information and story-telling and the immersive experi-ence of a film.”

She’s been successful in achiev-ing that balance. Weaving facts (500 dead birds collected in two hours at just two Toronto sky-scrapers) and digestible science (birds migrate thousands of miles at night using magnetic fields and celestial bodies to guide them) with a gripping narrative arc, Rynard tells a good, if disturbing story.

She peppers it with uncertainties and reminders that help us forge a connection with a world we don’t understand and with which, as

urban dwellers, we have increas-ingly less contact.

“Could we live without birds? We don’t know,” says one commenta-tor. “We forget we are part of the environment and that we depend on it for our lives,” says another.

Not one to belt us over the head with guilt or righteousness, Rynard and co-writer Sally Blake also rec-ognize the Gordian knot that is the relationship between man and nature.

In France, for example, voice is given to hunters and eaters of a traditional tiny avian delicacy, the Ortolan bunting. With its numbers reportedly plunging even though hunting it is banned in the Euro-pean Union, the bird continues to show up on dinner plates.

Film warns of songbirds’ decline

The Messenger is a documentary about the plight of songbirds.

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When: March 18 to 21Where: ByTowne CinemaInformation: 613-789-3456, bytowne.ca

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Locals - 209,144 (82%)Ontario (beyond 100k) = 11,481 (5%)Other Canada - 20,447 (8%)United States - 5,029 (2%)

AUDIENCE RESIDENCE

International - 7,874 (3%)

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22%78%

LocalsTourists 100km + from Ottawa

stated they will return to visit the 2017 Festival

For the second year, visits from the US and overseas substantially increased to return to numbers experienced prior to 2011 as a result of the 2008 economic downturn.

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ECONOMIC IMPACT*

$25 million

Locals

$22 million

Tourists

BUDGET$825,000 (including in-kind)

CAMPAIGN TOTAL REACH407+ million*

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PROMO MATERIALS

World’s Best Tourism Brochure Awards - 2015 Regional WinnerThe International Association of Professional Brochure Distributors (IAPBD) revealed the winners of the annual World’s Best Brochure Contest in late 2015. In total, 77 brochures were nominated from across the United States, Mexico, Canada and Western Europe. The 2015 TD Ottawa Jazz Festival brochure, chosen by the CTM Media Group, was awarded Regional Winner for its design and layout!

Brochure design by Julie-Anne Madore

PROGRAM BOOKPrinted on recycled FSC-certified paper, our 72 pages program book was widely distributed in key locations in the Ottawa region and handed out extensively at the Festival to our attendees. It was also available online as a flip book.

POSTERSThree thousand copies of the Festival’s 11” x 17” poster, designed by Sean Brady, were distributed accross the National Capital Region.

PROMO VIDEOOur promotional video received a total of 5,201 views through our website and social media channels. The 30-second montage announced our major headliners for the 2016 Festival and appeared on CBC’s website.

BROCHUREThis year, 50,000 brochures were printed and distributed accross the Ottawa/Gatineau region, Kingston, Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo, Niagara Falls (NY).

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In 2016, the Festival’s worldwide advertising reach was more than 407 million Amount derived from the total of these two pages

LOCAL ADVERTISINGMedia Outlet Insertion Period Circulation Insertions Total

Print Only

Ottawa Citizen April - June 520,900 14 7,292,600

Metro Ottawa: 2 page centre-spread & 1" pop-up Jan - June 60,000 4 240,000

Magazines

Where Magazine May - June 65,000 1 65,000

Transit

OC Transpo / Pattison - King May - June 623,900 24,000,000

Astral Media Outdoor - airport carousel June 147,680 1.5 221,520

Local & Tourism Displays

Ottawa ExploreBoard Network April - June 19 3,064

Radio

CBC Radio One, 91.5 FM promos June 22,000 42 924,000

Majic 100.3 June 145,000 50 7,250,000

CFRA 580 June 155,000 50 7,750,000

CHEZ 106 June 100,000 60 6,000,000

Rouge FM June 150,000 48 7,200,000

CHUO June university radio 306

Jewel 98.5 June 41,903 60 2,514,000

CHIN Radio (podcast info not available) June 150,000 504 75,600,000

Online Advertising Impressions Click Rate %

Ottawa Citizen - mobile campaign June - July 175,249 0.63

Ottawa Start June 80,000Ottawa Showbox 37,800

TVCBC Television promos June 324,000

ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN

Arrivals carousel banner at the Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport.

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OUT OF TOWN ADVERTISINGMedia Outlet Insertion Period Circulation Insertions Total

Magazines

Jazziz Magazine (US) April, May, June 500,000 2 1,000,000

DownBeat Magazine (US) May-June 68,000 2 136,000

Exclaim (national) 480,000 2 960,000

Summer Fun Guide 2015 Guide 250,000 1 250,000

On-the-Go May 216000 1 216000

Radio (International)

CHIN (podcast info not available) May - June 150,000 180 27,000,000

TV & Video Displays

WPBS June 2.2 million 65 143,000,000Toronto Video Displays: 3 screens @ Richmond Adelaide Center; 3 screens @ Toronto Stock Exchange Tower, 2 screens @ Royal Bank Plaza; 2 screens @ First Canadian Place; 10 Tornoto PATH Screens, 82 Gateway/International Newsstand screens

May - June 125,000 30 3,750,000

Online Advertising Impressions Click Rate %

Ottawa Citizen - Postmedia digital awareness May - June 285,907 .29500 Premium Brand Friendly Sites associated with Postmedia Trading Desk

May - June 458,107

CBC.ca May - June 376,000

Ottawa Tourism April-July 52,513 0.38Social Media including Twitter, Facebook, Google Ad Words and Instagram

Jan - Aug 1,610,385

Bus signage is a powerful medium to encourage word of mouth and is a veritable roving banner.

Posters were distributed across Ottawa/Gatineau.

GEOGRAPHIC FOCUS :a National Capital Regiona Ontario and Quebec more than 100k from eventa North Eastern USa France, Austria, Germany, Great Britain, Australia and Japana Eastern and Western Canada


Mackenzie Bridge activity tower. Size: 41.9”x 95”

11” x 17” posters. Quantity = 3,750

Attracting local residents and visitors, pageantry is a siginificant focus of the

Festival’s marketing campaign.PAGEANTRYCITY WIDE

Late Night Jamming activity tower at Lord Elgin Hotel’s Grill 41. Size: 41.9”x 95”

OLG After Dark Series activity tower. Size: 41.9”x 95”

Street pole banners. Prince of Wales Dr., & Wellington St. Quantity: 67

Lord Elgin canopy banner. Size: 400” x 60”

National Arts Centre large banner. Size: 288” x 336”

Vertical street pole banners: Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway, Laurier Ave., Albert St., Slater St., Bank St. S. Size: 29.5” x 60”. Quantity: 168

OC Transpo bus banner. Size: 135” x 26”

ON-SITE FESTIVAL SIGNAGE

Laurier/Elgin and Slater entrance banners. Size: 2 x 292” x 33’; 1 x 141” x 100”

Box office A Frame in front of City Hall

Site Map activity tower. Size: 41.9” x 95”

Box Office banner and activity tower. Banner: 26.7” x 247”. Activity tower: 41.9”x 95”.

Main gate top & side banners. Size: 2 x 292” x 33’; 1 x 141” x 100”

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Directional NAC signs. Quantity = 5

Big Screen & Left/Right Scrims by Main Stage in Confederation Park. Scrim size: 132” x 192”. Ad rotation totaled 189 times throughout the Festival.

OLG After Dark Series/Tartan Homes Stage banners at Marion Dewar Plaza in front of City Hall. Quantity: 4. Size: 86” x 126”

NAC Back Stage coroplast. Size: 41.9”x 95”

National Arts Centre Studio and Theatre coroplasts. Size: 41.9”x 95”

Canada Day activity tower.Size: 41.9”x 95”

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Discovery Series, OLG After Dark Series, Jazz Warriors Series & generic festival pop-ups placed at the NAC. Size: 33.5” x 84.5”

Jazz at noon Series activity tower. Size: 41.9”x 95”

Beverages activity tower. Size: 41.9” x 95”

Merchandise activity tower. Size: 41.9” x 95”.

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OLG Pop-Ups on Tartan Homes Stage

OLG Banner at OLG Stage Entrance

Tartan Homes banner in front of the Marion-Dewar Plaza

Tartan Homes pop-ups on the Tartan Homes Stage.

Tartan Homes Stage Gobo

Downtown Rideau BIA pole banners

Downtown Rideau BIA Take 5 Before Jazz

Rendez-vous Rideau Jazz Series signs in CF Rideau Centre

TD Comfort Zone

TD Umbrellas. Size: 72” h. Quantity: 55

NCC sign and City Bike Racks TD Music banner

TD Flag

SPONSOR SIGNAGE

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Laurier Ave. Music Series activity tower. Size: 41.9”x 95”.

Jibber Jazz Jam-Along First Aid SoundCheck


Andre Gagne Such an intense, high energy performance by @mouseonthekeys @OttawaJazz. Utterly blown away by this show!

1,244Total Attendance 8K +Total Website Visits

76K +Total Facebook Reach* 127K +Total Tweet Impressions*

3 million +Total Advertising Reach

Top Twitter mention earned 420 engagements

Ads appeared in Metro Ottawa, Exclaim, Ottawa Citizen blog takeover, Ottawa Start.

TD WINTER JAZZ FEST FEBRUARY 4 - 7, 2016

PRINT MATERIALS350 posters and 2,000 flyers were distributed accross the National Capital Region. A program book with complete artist biographies was also available online and at the venues.

In its 5th year, the 2016 TD Winter Jazz Festival at the National Arts Centre was completely sold out.

Performers included: Carol Welsman, Fraser Hollins

Quartet ft. Joel Miller, Jon Cowherd and Brian Blade, David Virelles and Roman Diaz, Montreal Guitare Trio,

Mouse on the Keys , Mike Murley Trio and John Geggie’s Journey Band !

OVERVIEWAs one of the few winter music festivals in the city of Ottawa, TD Winter Jazz Fest warms the capital during the cold weather with loads of jazz music in cozy venues.

9.7 million +Total Media Reach

Ottawa Citizen, CBC Radio (various shows), DamnMag.com, Ottawa Start, CTV Ottawa Morning, Metro Ottawa, Ottawa Showbox, North Country Public Radio, CHIN, 1310 News, CHUO, Radio-Canada, Rogers – Entre nous, Ottawa Life Magazine, Centretown News and Montreal Gazette. See some of the coverage on page 30.

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Twenty eight recycling stations, for a total of 40 bins, were spread around the Festival grounds encouraging patrons to stay green in 2016. Everything from the biodegrable wine and beer cups supplied to our attendees; to cardboard and glass/plastic/metal containers from our food vendors were proudly recycled with the help of the OJF green team.

Highlights of our greening efforts during the Festival:

a Use of 100% biodegradable and compostable beer and wine cups made from 100% renewable resources (from Green Shift, Canada).a 1.5 metric tonnes (MT) of mixed fiber materials & 2.76 MT of recyclable materials collected.a 28 recycling stations were strategically located around the festival site.a Volunteer & staff t-shirts had messages on both sleeves encouraging everyone to recycle.

GREENING

a 95% of food ware from our vendors was either re-usable, biodegradable or recyclable.a Paperless Volunteer Program.a Program Book available online - printed less.a Paperless ticketing system (tickets are emailed then scanned on patrons’ mobile devices).a Use of efficient print methods for marketing materials on recycled FSC-certified paper.a Festival situated adjacent to major public transportation (OC Transpo).a Multiple bike racks provided by both the Festival and the City of Ottawa.a Wine/liquor bottles donated to local charitiesa Leftover water, food, t-shirts donated to the Ottawa Shepherds of Good Hope.a Beau’s All Natural Brewery, our official beer sponsor since 2009, brews with organic malts and uses local spring water.

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Every year, the Festival works closely with it’s volunteers, vendors, suppliers and partners to reduce its carbon footprint.

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Sponsors and businesses find activations effective for product sampling, promotion, awareness and sales.

ON-SITE ACTIVATIONS

CONFEDERATION PARK & MARION DEWAR PLAZA

For two years now, TD has been providing the TD Comfort Zone, an area for all festival-goers to take a break and relax!

Some of the on-site activations at the 2016 Festival included: TD, OLG, LCBO, CBC Ottawa, Dove Canada and more.


HIGHLIGHTSa Mobile friendly (in 2016, 34% of visitors viewed the website on their phones) a New blog page and postsa Excellent social media integration a Lots of video and photo contenta Tourism slider section on home pagea New Instagram feed integrateda Fast and secure e-ticketing system

WEBSITE

Mobile friendly. Engaging. Interactive. Visual.Ottawajazzfestival.com continues to be the principle source of information for our audience. With a strong focus on engagement and usability, it continues to be one of the top ranked Ottawa festivals on Google searches. New features this year inlude a blog and an interactive map.

a Interactive program booka New interactive mapa Superior SEO (Search Engine Optimization) strategiesa Easy online application formsa New online donationsa Major sponsor logos on home page

471K pageviews

2016 STATSFrom Jan to

Aug 2016

1,938average a day

187K visits

769average a day

120K visitors

494average a day

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7K most visits in a single day

Top Website Referrals

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SOCIAL MEDIA

7.2K Likes 17.2K Followers 1.5K Followers

Fashion truck, food trucks, and a whole lot of fun. Join us at @OttawaJazz tonight if you can. #ottawa #Jazz

Top June Mention earned 486 engagements

Top Facebook Post reached 11.6K people

Ottawa Jazz FestivalJuly 3, 2016

31,729 People Reached

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A little taste of Michael Franti and Spearhead from last night!

1+ Million ImpressionsSeptember 2015 to August 2016

1+ Million Reach September 2015 to August 2016

3,316 Total LikesSeptember 2015 to August 2016

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HIGHLIGHTSTotal media reach was over 570 Million*

a Received extensive coverage on CBC.ca/Ottawa, radio, social media and TV.a Critics from all three major daily newspapers; The Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa Sun and Le Droit filed daily reviews in print, online and on their blogs for the duration of the Festival.a Joel Hurd from North Country Public Radio (New York State) and John Kelman from All About Jazz attended the Festival several times.a CHIN Radio, Ottawa’s multicultural radio station, covered the Festival daily and interviewed several international artists.a CHIN’s reporter did regular reports about the Festival on CTV Ottawa Morning.a Metro produced a six-page special insert section published on June 22.

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CBC News, Radio-Canada and CTV covered the opening night of the Festival with live coverage throughout the news.

CBC OTTAWATotal CBC Impressions

CBC Radio One, 91.5 = 1,506,200 CBC Television = 1,222,000

The TD Ottawa Jazz Festival had a significant online presence on cbc.ca/ottawa, as well as the Twitter accounts of our shows and their hosts. A prominent home page button featured Jazzfest on the heavily-used main page of cbc.ca/ottawa. The button linked through to a dedicated Jazzfest page for the full 12 days of the Festival, plus the week leading up to the festival.

CBC Ottawa’s tweets received more than 45,600 combined impressions with an overall engagement total of more than 1,110. These statistics show that audiences are directly interacting with CBC Ottawa on social media.

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*Media tracking commissioned through Meltwater

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24H JAZZ RAMBLEA free 24 hour improv jazz session hosted by John Thompson at the Record Centre featured all of the Festival’s local artists and friends and had a full house well into the night with about 25 people staying through until dawn

JIBBER JAZZ JAMSA daily musical experience around the Fountain in Confederation Park that invited all of the community to a jam along at 4PM. Hosted by local artists, 100 participants joined the joyful sound over 10 days of the festival. Generously supported by the Community Foundation of Ottawa.

“It feels good to help out, and Otta-wa in general is starved for big kooky awesome parties,” said Chocolate Hot Pockets guitarist Alex Moxon, explaining his involvement.

The event will present a wide cross-section of jazz in Ottawa from the bop-based originals of

trumpeter Charley Gordon (7 p.m. Tuesday) to the electric funkiness of the Chocolate Hot Pockets (11 a.m. Tuesday) to the ’70s-feel soul-jazz of the Atlantis Jazz Ensemble (9 p.m. Tuesday) to the avant-garde playing of alto saxophonist Linsey Wellman (1 a.m. Wednesday).

Between sets there will be hourly draws for prizes including concert

tickets and gift certificates to lo-cal restaurants. The person who spends the most time at the Ram-ble will receive the Last Fan Stand-ing prize, which is to include a gold pass to the festival and a dining-and-hospitality package.

Also, from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. at the Record Centre event, bronze pass-es to the festival, normally $200, will be sold for [email protected] twitter.com/peterhum ottawacitizen.com/jazzblog

O T TAWA JA Z Z F E S T I VA L 2 4 - H O U R JA Z Z R A M B L E T U E S DAY 10 a.m.: Adam Saikaley 11 a.m.: The Chocolate Hot Pockets Noon: Tim Bedner, Mark Alcorn, Marilee Townsend 1 p.m.: Michel Delage and Steve Boudreau 2 p.m.: Michel Delage,Alex Bilodeau 3 p.m.: Michel Delage, Lucas Hane-man, Dave Schroeder 4 p.m.: Christine Fagan, Roddy Ellias 5 p.m.: The Steve Berndt Group 6 p.m.: Rob Frayne’s Drum Swamp 7 p.m.: Peter Hum, Charles Gordon, John Geggie 8 p.m.: Roddy Ellias, John Geggie, Petr Cancura, Mark Ferguson 9 p.m.: Atlantis Jazz Ensemble 10 p.m.: Hellonious Fonq 11 p.m.: Petr Cancura’s Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang!W E D N E S DAY Midnight: Alex Moxon, Zak Frantz, Keith Walton, Michel Delage 1 a.m.: Linsey Wellman 2 a.m.: Andrew Knox and Feelin’ Nostalgic Sextet 3 a.m.: Sean Duhaime Trio 4 a.m.: Julian Selody 5 a.m.: The Julian Calendars 6 a.m.: Mike Essoudry, Don Cum-mings 7 a.m.: Mélanie and Keith Hartshorn-Walton 8 a.m.: TBA 9 a.m.: Megan Jerome

Reader’s Online Dating Com-mentary: “I’ve had one of the best dates and also the scariest date with the same guy, whom I met online.

“I’d noticed his picture on my friend’s Facebook, and sent him a private message (he was good-looking in the way that attracts me most).

“After several texts back and forth, it seemed easier because of our jobs, for me to drive the hour’s distance between us.

“I’m a confident woman, have a good job, and felt comfortable that this guy was in my friend’s social circle.

“I met him at a bar, then we went for dinner. It was all very easy, fun, and promising.

“He offered to drive to my place for our next date. He was vague about the time, so that day, I asked him to be specific. He never answered. But I had things to do.

“Suddenly, he said he was ten minutes away. I said I was out doing errands. He got instantly angry and sent texts every min-ute. I decided to meet him at a nearby bar, now uncomfortable about being alone in my apart-ment with him.

“He lashed out as soon as I arrived, saying he’d gone to ‘great trouble to meet my girlfriend and was treated so badly.’

“Girlfriend? He then loudly announced that we were OVER! I left but received angry texts throughout the night.

“I know now that even if some-one’s known to a friend, he’s still a stranger.”

Q My cousin’s morbidly obese. She’s mid-40s, but I’m afraid she’ll die too young because of her condition. She’s good at her work (a desk job), has two won-derful sons, and a husband who’s given up trying to get her to lose weight. I’m the younger cousin who always admired her - she was once healthy, slim, and beauti-ful. But an abusive boyfriend convinced her that she was ugly and fat. She became bulimic in her late-teens. She then alternated between bulimic bouts, binge eat-ing, and gaining weight. Twenty-five years later, she’s bigger than ever after tons of diets, injections, and even stomach surgery. I’m the godmother of her children and feel a responsibility to them, since I fear she’ll not live to see them grow to adults. She’s always shut down any conversations about her weight. So how can I help her? — Frustrated CousinA Help her want to save herself.

Do this by getting her informed of the facts and accepting profes-sional help. She needs to absorb the reality that morbid obesity is risking her life, and her connec-tion to her children and husband.

Eating disorders, such as buli-mia and anorexia, are related to obesity.

What started for her as body-image issues, self-loathing, and likely depression, too, turned into a life pattern of unhealthy eating, dieting, and denial.

But its root cause is emotion-al, and she needs a mental health specialist to help her change her eating behaviour and motiva-tions. She cannot do this alone, or with prodding from you.

But she does need your sup-port. Do the research, have her read it on her own. Tell her you love her and fear she’s at the crossroads of her life. Then make an appointment with a psychotherapist, psychiatrist, or psychologist who has background in this, with her agreement.

Go with her. Even if the thera-pist won’t let you attend the ses-sion, wait there for her.

Do this until you believe she’ll attend appointments on her own, unless she needs you to get her there. Read Ellie Monday to Saturday.

A friend’s friend can turn out to be a scary suitor

E L L I E T E S H E RAdvice

Petr Cancura, right, programming manager of the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival, and The Record Centre owner John Thompson are staging the inaugural 24 Hour Jazz Ramble June 14-15. J U L I E O L I V E R

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“It feels good to help out, and Otta-wa in general is starved for big kooky awesome parties,” said Chocolate Hot Pockets guitarist Alex Moxon, explaining his involvement.

The event will present a wide cross-section of jazz in Ottawa from the bop-based originals of

trumpeter Charley Gordon (7 p.m. Tuesday) to the electric funkiness of the Chocolate Hot Pockets (11 a.m. Tuesday) to the ’70s-feel soul-jazz of the Atlantis Jazz Ensemble (9 p.m. Tuesday) to the avant-garde playing of alto saxophonist Linsey Wellman (1 a.m. Wednesday).

Between sets there will be hourly draws for prizes including concert

tickets and gift certificates to lo-cal restaurants. The person who spends the most time at the Ram-ble will receive the Last Fan Stand-ing prize, which is to include a gold pass to the festival and a dining-and-hospitality package.

Also, from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. at the Record Centre event, bronze pass-es to the festival, normally $200, will be sold for [email protected] twitter.com/peterhum ottawacitizen.com/jazzblog

O T TAWA JA Z Z F E S T I VA L 2 4 - H O U R JA Z Z R A M B L E T U E S DAY 10 a.m.: Adam Saikaley 11 a.m.: The Chocolate Hot Pockets Noon: Tim Bedner, Mark Alcorn, Marilee Townsend 1 p.m.: Michel Delage and Steve Boudreau 2 p.m.: Michel Delage,Alex Bilodeau 3 p.m.: Michel Delage, Lucas Hane-man, Dave Schroeder 4 p.m.: Christine Fagan, Roddy Ellias 5 p.m.: The Steve Berndt Group 6 p.m.: Rob Frayne’s Drum Swamp 7 p.m.: Peter Hum, Charles Gordon, John Geggie 8 p.m.: Roddy Ellias, John Geggie, Petr Cancura, Mark Ferguson 9 p.m.: Atlantis Jazz Ensemble 10 p.m.: Hellonious Fonq 11 p.m.: Petr Cancura’s Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang!W E D N E S DAY Midnight: Alex Moxon, Zak Frantz, Keith Walton, Michel Delage 1 a.m.: Linsey Wellman 2 a.m.: Andrew Knox and Feelin’ Nostalgic Sextet 3 a.m.: Sean Duhaime Trio 4 a.m.: Julian Selody 5 a.m.: The Julian Calendars 6 a.m.: Mike Essoudry, Don Cum-mings 7 a.m.: Mélanie and Keith Hartshorn-Walton 8 a.m.: TBA 9 a.m.: Megan Jerome

Reader’s Online Dating Com-mentary: “I’ve had one of the best dates and also the scariest date with the same guy, whom I met online.

“I’d noticed his picture on my friend’s Facebook, and sent him a private message (he was good-looking in the way that attracts me most).

“After several texts back and forth, it seemed easier because of our jobs, for me to drive the hour’s distance between us.

“I’m a confident woman, have a good job, and felt comfortable that this guy was in my friend’s social circle.

“I met him at a bar, then we went for dinner. It was all very easy, fun, and promising.

“He offered to drive to my place for our next date. He was vague about the time, so that day, I asked him to be specific. He never answered. But I had things to do.

“Suddenly, he said he was ten minutes away. I said I was out doing errands. He got instantly angry and sent texts every min-ute. I decided to meet him at a nearby bar, now uncomfortable about being alone in my apart-ment with him.

“He lashed out as soon as I arrived, saying he’d gone to ‘great trouble to meet my girlfriend and was treated so badly.’

“Girlfriend? He then loudly announced that we were OVER! I left but received angry texts throughout the night.

“I know now that even if some-one’s known to a friend, he’s still a stranger.”

Q My cousin’s morbidly obese. She’s mid-40s, but I’m afraid she’ll die too young because of her condition. She’s good at her work (a desk job), has two won-derful sons, and a husband who’s given up trying to get her to lose weight. I’m the younger cousin who always admired her - she was once healthy, slim, and beauti-ful. But an abusive boyfriend convinced her that she was ugly and fat. She became bulimic in her late-teens. She then alternated between bulimic bouts, binge eat-ing, and gaining weight. Twenty-five years later, she’s bigger than ever after tons of diets, injections, and even stomach surgery. I’m the godmother of her children and feel a responsibility to them, since I fear she’ll not live to see them grow to adults. She’s always shut down any conversations about her weight. So how can I help her? — Frustrated CousinA Help her want to save herself.

Do this by getting her informed of the facts and accepting profes-sional help. She needs to absorb the reality that morbid obesity is risking her life, and her connec-tion to her children and husband.

Eating disorders, such as buli-mia and anorexia, are related to obesity.

What started for her as body-image issues, self-loathing, and likely depression, too, turned into a life pattern of unhealthy eating, dieting, and denial.

But its root cause is emotion-al, and she needs a mental health specialist to help her change her eating behaviour and motiva-tions. She cannot do this alone, or with prodding from you.

But she does need your sup-port. Do the research, have her read it on her own. Tell her you love her and fear she’s at the crossroads of her life. Then make an appointment with a psychotherapist, psychiatrist, or psychologist who has background in this, with her agreement.

Go with her. Even if the thera-pist won’t let you attend the ses-sion, wait there for her.

Do this until you believe she’ll attend appointments on her own, unless she needs you to get her there. Read Ellie Monday to Saturday.

A friend’s friend can turn out to be a scary suitor


Petr Cancura, right, programming manager of the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival, and The Record Centre owner John Thompson are staging the inaugural 24 Hour Jazz Ramble June 14-15. J U L I E O L I V E R

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YOU ‘THE RIGHT THING’$400K raised for Indian village D4


The law — arcane, precedent-lov-ing, sometimes overwhelming in a Kafkaesque way — has a fun side?

You bet, according to Ian Stauffer.The veteran Ottawa litigation

lawyer and small claims court dep-uty judge premieres his latest play, A New Paradise, at Ottawa Little Theatre, Feb. 3-6. A fundraiser for the Ottawa Mission, the comedy stars area lawyers, judges, police officers and others whose day jobs involve the law.

Set in the fictional legal offices of Paradise, Morgan and Bright-man, the 23-character play finds an evil leader plotting to create a new master race on Earth. Pitted against the evil-doers are a couple of bumbling barristers and a clever scientist, with love, solar farms and alcohol getting in on the action.

“The human side of the law isn’t often displayed when people en-counter the law. It always seems dry,” Stauffer says.

“But judges and lawyers are peo-ple who bring their own emotional and mental and historical baggage to the picture.

“I wanted to show the irrever-ent side lawyers have, that there is some fun in law practices and dealing with (clients).”

A New Paradise is Stauffer’s third play and the final instalment in his Paradise series.

A longtime community theatre actor, he debuted his first show Lost in Paradise as the 2009 pro-duction of the annual Lawyer Play, a fundraiser for the Great Cana-dian Theatre Company and com-munity causes that Stauffer had co-founded several years earlier. His second show, Still Looking for Paradise which he produced him-self at OLT in 2013, raised an ex-traordinary $50,000 for the Union Mission. He hopes to match that this time out.

While the plots have evolved, a law firm is at the centre of all three plays.

Such a setting makes for good theatre, according to Stauffer, who should know: He’s a partner at Tierney Stauffer LLP here in town.

New play lays down the law

You could look at it this way: Fraser Hollins is just getting together this Friday with his old roommate, his roommate’s friend and a longtime buddy to play some tunes.

Talk about an understate-ment. Pencil in the names of the folks playing with Hollins, and you realize that the Montreal-based, Ottawa-raised bassist has assembled a dream-team quartet to play the TD Ottawa Winter Jazz Festival.

“I’m happy and very excited,” says Hollins, 45. “I’m seizing the opportunity.”

His ex-roommate is New York pianist Jon Cowherd, who has played with Rosanne Cash, Iggy Pop, Cassandra Wilson and, most famously for jazz lovers, the group he co-founded with drum-mer Brian Blade, the Grammy-nominated Fellowship Band.

Hollins says that he and Cow-herd became close friends when they were among several people who shared an Upper West Side apartment during stretches of time between 1999 and 2005.

“Playing with him, it’s very

easy,” Hollins says of Cowherd. “He’s a great listener. When you’re in a conversation with him, he’s a great listener, and you feel that when you play with him. He’s just there. He’s just very present. It’s the sort of playing I like a lot. There s a lot of listening and a lot of dialogue going on.

“Jon is so quick, if you give him a piece of music, he just gets to the heart of the music so quickly,” Hollins continues.

“He’s worked extremely hard at his art and his craft, so his skills are really, really developed. And he’s got a spirit where he’s all about serving the music. It really feels like it’s all about the music.”

Joining Hollins and Cowherd when they play at the National Arts Centre’s Fourth Stage will be none other than Blade himself. The Louisiana-raised drummer/bandleader and singer/song-writer is renowned for a singular combination of groove, dyna-mism and sensitivity.

Blade has accompanied Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Daniel Lanois and Seal, not to mention most of the jazz world’s greats

from Wayne Shorter to Chick Corea to Joshua Redman to Kenny Garrett.

“Brian is a really beautiful, giv-ing, generous soul,” Hollins says.

“Very in the moment, very, very present. And again, like Jon, always about serving the music. Sometimes it might be to try and lift it, sometimes it might be to create space.

“He just always seems to play the perfect thing.”

Completing Hollins’s quartet is saxophonist Joel Miller. He might not have the international jazz stature of Blade and Cow-herd, but he is a leading Canadian hornman and composer.

His talents won him the 2013 Juno Award for best contem-porary jazz recording for Swim, which also featured Hollins. Hol-lins and Miller have been playing together in Montreal since the mid-1990s.

“We’ve just hung out so much, listening to music, goofing around, doing silly things,” Hol-lins says. “Joel’s like a brother, a musical brother.”

DREAM TEAMJoel Miller on sax, left, and Fraser Hollins on bass, seen at the 2012 Ottawa Jazz Festival, are part of a quartet set to play the TD Ottawa Winter Jazz Festival that also includes John Cowherd and Brian Blade. J E A N L E VAC / F I L E S

Ottawa-raised Fraser Hollins has assembled a superstar jazz quartet, Peter Hum writes.

F R A S E R H O L L I N S Q UA RT E TFeaturing Joel Miller, Jon Cowherd and Brian Blade

When: Friday, Feb. 5, 9 p.m.Where: NAC Fourth StageTickets: $32

T D O T T AWA W I N T E R J A Z Z F E S T I VA L

All concerts unless noted are in the NAC Fourth Stage

Thursday ■ Petr Cancura with Lynn

Miles, 7:30 p.m.

Friday ■ The Chocolate Hot Pockets,

5 p.m. (free concert) ■ Mike Murley Trio, 7 p.m. ■ Fraser Hollins Quartet, 9 p.m. ■ Florquestra — Forró Party,

10 p.m., Mercury Lounge ■ Jam session, 10:30 p.m.,

ARC The.Hotel

Saturday ■ John Geggie Journey Band,

5 p.m. ■ Carol Welsman, 7 p.m. ■ David Virelles and Román

Díaz, 9 p.m. ■ Jam session, 10:30 p.m.,

ARC The.Hotel

Sunday ■ Mouse on the Keys, 6 p.m. ■ Montreal Guitar Trio, 8 p.m.

Tickets: Single concerts ($22-$32, plus fees), nightly passes ($40-$50, plus fees), full passes ($77.50 plus fees) at ottawajazzfestival.com

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Ottawa

A children’s production company may only face a “slap-on-the-wrist” punishment if it violated the city’s lobbying rules for a Mooney’s Bay Park playground, says a legal expert.

Several critics of Sinking Ship Enter-tainment’s $2-million mega-playground deal with the city have called the com-pany’s lobbying rules into question. Sinking Ship has not filed any lobbying activ-ity, but city officials knew about its Canada-shaped playground project last winter.

The city’s integrity com-missioner, Robert Marleau, is tabling a report on the Mooney’s Bay Park playground project at a council meeting on July 13. We still don’t know the content of the report, including whether Sinking Ship violated any codes of conduct or bylaws. We also don’t know if the company even needed to be registered as a lobbyist.

By law, Marleau can’t comment on the report ahead of time.

But if he finds that Sinking Ship vio-lated lobbying rules, the company would not face any city fines. Mooney’s Bay resi-

dents shouldn’t expect Marleau’s decision to halt the playground project, either.

Guy Giorno, co-author of Lobbying in Canada and a partner at Fasken Mar-tineau Ottawa, says the company may be banned from communicating with elected officials for a month. But that’s probably about it.

Giorno has long said the city’s lobbying bylaw sanctions are too lax. In Toronto, companies that fail to comply could face prosecution under the city’s bylaw.

However, given that Sinking Ship is funding almost half the cost of the play-ground, it could be that the company did not need to be registered as a lobbyist.

“It is possible, theoretically, for some-body to say, ‘I wasn’t lobbying a city decision. I just wanted to give the city a million dollars,’” says Giorno.

Meanwhile, his advice to any company looking to engage with city officials: Read the bylaw, talk to a lawyer or phone Marleau’s staff to check the do’s and don’ts.

The more lobbying breaches a company makes, the stiffer the sanctions.

Those who break the rules a second time may be banned from communicating with city officials for three months. After a third breach, it’s up to the integrity commissioner to rec-ommend sanctions to council.

“Most businesses do comply with these laws,” says Giorno. “Even though the po-tential penalty is light, there’s a reputa-tional damage that can be done if you’re found to have breached the law.”

Three companies have violated the city’s lobbying rules this year.

Park project raises questions over lobbyingMOONEY’S BAY

Report by integrity commissioner examines $2M mega playground

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my generation. Or so we thought.’

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MYSTERY SERIES A 5 concert series of free, noon time shows featuring artists as special guests from any of the 15 shows from the day before! Mystery artists were announced only on the CBC Morning show with host Robyn Breznahan. Thanks to Celebrate Ontario for offering A list artists to audiences old and new.

DISCOVERY SERIESA tribute to those artists who continue to forge

the way for all those intent on breaking down barriers and boundaries and taking the music

into new places. This series took place at the National Arts Centre’s new Back Stage.

“Finally, the NAC Back Stage concerts seem to be victim of their success. I learned that the hard way by showing up late for the again sold out

concert of Colin Stetson… Congratulations to the festival.” – Bernard Stepien, CKCU’s

Rabble Without A Cause

WARRIORS SERIESFirst time for the Festival working in the National Arts Centre Theatre for a superb showcase of artists who continue to reimagine their music, their visions, and their relationships to the great artists who work in this explosive and expansive world of jazz! This series was sponsored by Celebrate Ontario.

“Epic opening night for the Ottawa Jazz Festival featuring Kamasi Washington” – Joel Hurd, North Country Public Radio

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Before Petr Cancura moved in July from Brooklyn back to Ottawa, he was having his “best musical year.”

After more than a decade in the United States, the Orléans-raised reed player and multi-instrumen-talist was connecting with fellow jazz musicians and improvisers in the upper echelons of the fer-tile Brooklyn scene. Playing with such widely celebrated musicians as were milestones. Meanwhile, he was growing more fulfilled with the projects he led.

But late last year, several offers that came from his hometown were too good to refuse.

In December, Cancura began talking with his alma mater, Car-leton University, about becoming its artist-in-residence for a year. At the same time, an opportunity to stage several concerts as part of the National Arts Centre’s NAC Presents series emerged.

“The combination of these things was just too good to turn down,” says Cancura, 38.

Add the work at Carleton and NAC to Cancura’s duties as the Ot-tawa Jazz Festival’s programming manager, for which he spent a week each month back in Ottawa, and there was more than enough rea-son to uproot his family and come back to Ottawa with his wife, Liz, and their four-year-old daughter, Annabelle.

“Ever since we had Annabelle, our outlook on lifestyle became different,” says Cancura.

His wife gave up her teaching job and its punishing commute, and his family left their tiny apart-ment in Brooklyn. “We squeezed our way into Westboro. It’s a very small house, but coming from New York, it feels like a mansion.

“We have a driveway. I don’t have to look for parking for 45 minutes after a gig,” he adds. Nor does he have to drive a beat-up car, foresee-ing that it could be vandalized, or fret about gunshots that he heard

steps away from his old apartment. “That’s stuff I don’t miss for a sec-ond,” he says.

He’s kept busy this fall, biking from home, to the festival’s down-town office, to Carleton. On Mon-days, Tuesdays and Fridays, he splits his time between the festival and Carleton. The festival has him Wednesday, and on Thursdays he’s at Carleton all day.

Cancura says that his musical life in Brooklyn had been “creatively unbelievable but financially unsus-tainable.”

On one hand, being in Brooklyn allowed him to record his 2013 al-bum Down Home, which was nom-inated for a Juno Award in the best instrumental album of the year category. But of his day-in, day-

out music-making, Cancura says: “I kept playing these great gigs but still coming home with $50 at the most.”

Cancura says that, despite his move, he still wants to play with his Brooklyn peers, and he is work-ing to set up a Canadian tour and perhaps a recording session with them next year.

“I’m by no means ready to give up those musical relationships. I realized I can base myself here,” he says.

But returning to Ottawa has also made him keen to find new collabo-rations with musicians in Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa. Up next is a Nov. 20 concert at the NAC Fourth Stage with Ian Tamblyn, the first of three Crossroads shows that Can-

cura will do that will feature him teaming up with an Ottawa singer-songwriter.

With this series, Cancura is practising what he teaches. At Carleton, he gives a class that he has created called Developing a Personal Style: Jazz and Roots. Cancura’s Down Home disc took the roots and blues sounds of the southern United States as its inspi-ration, and before that, Cancura also delved into the folk music of Czech Republic, where he was born.

“I love combining roots and jazz,” Cancura says, adding that there have been some high-level precedents for jazz and roots/folk mash-ups. He says he looks to what jazz trumpeters Dave Douglas and Wynton Marsalis have done with singers Aoife O’Donovan and Wil-lie Nelson respectively. In the late 1970s, Joni Mitchell was making fantastic music with jazz greats Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny and Jaco Pastorius.

With Tamblyn this month, and in 2016 with Lynn Miles and Jeremy Fisher at the Fourth Stage, it will be up to Cancura to “set their music to jazz,” he says.

Tamblyn has been great to work with, Cancura says. “He gave me 15 CDs, I took them home and spent weeks listening to them, put stars next to the songs that spoke to me,” Cancura says.

Because there was no sheet mu-sic to work from, Cancura had to transcribe the songs from the re-cordings and rearrange them for his jazz peers.

Cancura, who will be joined for those concerts by guitarist Roddy Ellias, bassist John Geggie and Montreal drummer Greg Ritchie, says it will take a lot of creativity to balance the demands of the sing-er-songwriter and jazz musicians onstage.

“I want Ian to be at home, and re-ally express his stories,” Cancura says. “But I also want to let these great jazz musicians really play and shine.”

RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL JAZZMANPetr Cancura, back from Brooklyn, mixes jazz and roots

Multi-instrumentalist jazz musician Petr Cancura, who grew up in Orléans, has returned to his roots — and roots music. J E A N L E VAC / O T TAWA C I T I Z E N

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Tickets: $35 at the NAC box office or nac-cna.ca

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Ottawa Bach ChoirJ.S. Bach’s B Minor MassAt Dominion-Chalmers United ChurchReviewed Sunday night

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Lisette Canton and the Ottawa Bach Choir joined the list of musi-cians sending tributes to Paris, dedicating Sunday’s performance of Bach’s B Minor Mass to the vic-tims of the French terror attacks.

Swelling the ranks of the OBC were the York University Cham-ber Choir — another of Canton’s projects — and Ensemble Caprice, the exuberant little baroque orchestra from Montreal led by flutist Matthias Maute.

Canton, the choir’s artistic director, has spoken about her deep affection and admiration for this monument of European sacred music. Her love for the work translated into a perfor-mance that had passion and joy, but also excess and inconsistency.

First the good. The choir’s singing was supple, nuanced and vibrantly responsive. The men sounded particularly rich and assertive, while the sopranos had a lovely, balanced sound, clear and pure but without spikiness. Can-ton’s conducting style is effective, if a little strident and aggressive.

She is skilled at drawing out the work’s intimate details: all the tasty little dissonances, the noble plainchant quotations and richly textured counterpoint. The final Dona Nobis Pacem unfurled slowly in an impressive crescendo, expansive and embracing.

There was superlative play-ing from the orchestra, includ-ing masterful flute obbligato by Maute, and virtuoso turns by the trio of natural trumpets. A high-light was the splendid Quoniam, with Louis-Pierre Bergeron play-ing his curly pug-tail of a baroque horn and backed by two amiably chattering bassoons (some of Bach’s most imaginative instru-mentation).

Young baritone Geoffrey Sirett stood out among the soloists, and not only for his impressive height. He possesses an extraordinarily special voice: tautly focused, exotically coloured, heroic in its grandeur, power and presence.

Then there was the not as good. Some of Canton’s tempo selec-tions were so fast that they served neither the music nor the musi-cians, and seemed to be based on pure showiness. Her attention to detail can border on fussy, with some articulation so obsessively chiselled — the opening Kyrie was one example — that it broke up Bach’s majestic, architectural lines.

The ensemble had performed this beast of a work in Toronto the previous evening, travelling to Ottawa all day Sunday, and sheer fatigue was undoubtedly a factor in some shakier sections. The eminent bass-baritone and early music specialist Daniel Lichti, normally rock solid, sounded tired; even countertenor Daniel Taylor had a rare vocal hiccup — although in both cases, artistry and taste compensated for any technical glitches.

Overall, this B Minor Mass felt more celebratory than reverent; a strange but not unwelcome feel-ing in these days when there are hours enough spent in grief and reflection.

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In the dozen years that the SFJAZZ Collective has honoured jazz’s most significant composers by perform-ing arrangements of their work, the all-star octet’s choices of annual honourees have usually been no-brainers.

Canonical artists such as The-lonious Monk, Ornette Coleman, Wayne Shorter and Herbie Han-cock got the nod, and all was right with the world. But last year, the band decided to pay tribute to someone who, for all his global popularity, wasn’t part of the jazz tribe — none other than the King of Pop, Michael Jackson.

If jazz fans were skeptical, it was understandable. At the proj-ect’s outset, so too was the group’s pianist, Edward Simon.

“I was one of the ones that was proceeding with a lot of trepida-tion,” Simon said in a recent phone interview.

In the voting process to deter-mine which musician the collec-tive would focus on next, Simon didn’t cast his ballot for Jackson. “I thought it would be a dangerous proposition just to take on any pop artist,” he said.

But Simon has come around. The band, he said, has been able to be true to Jackson’s songs — includ-ing such hits as Rock With You, Smooth Criminal and Thriller — while presenting them instrumen-tally within arrangements that allow the octet to revel in its big, horn-heavy sound and stretch out improvisationally.

Audiences who have heard the Jackson pieces since the group began playing them last fall have reacted positively, Simon said.

A relative latecomer to Jack-son’s music, Simon said he’s been struck by the aha moments of audi-ences latching onto pop hits from a snippet of bass line or a few bars of melody.

“Everybody recognizes the tunes, and people like to hear mu-sic they’re familiar with,” Simon said. “You can see their reaction. You can feel they’re with you.

“But this is different,” he contin-

ued. “It’s all played instrumentally, with some solos on it, with some jazz improvisation. So it’s a differ-ent kind of take on Michael’s music. So I think it’s kind of refreshing, I think, to hear it done by this band.”

The group was launched in 2004 by SFJAZZ, San Francisco’s equiv-alent of the Ottawa Jazz Festival, which now presents more than 300 concerts each year in the San Francisco Bay area and at its new concert hall, the SFJAZZ Center.

Over the years, SFJAZZ has re-cruited top-flight American jazz musicians to fill the band’s ranks. The collective has played twice before in Ottawa, with slightly different lineups, at Centrepointe Theatre in 2011 and Dominion-Chalmers United Church in 2009.

The group that is to play Confed-eration Park includes saxophonists Miguel Zenón and David Sanchez, trombonist Robin Eubanks, trum-peter Sean Jones, vibraphonist Warren Wolf, pianist Simon, bass-ist Matt Penman and drummer Obed Calvaire.

Only Simon lives near San Fran-cisco, and he only moved there almost two years ago from Flor-ida with his wife and family. The other band members are scattered among cities including New York, New Jersey, Baltimore and Atlanta.

Being in the collective requires

them to reunite twice a year in San Francisco to rehearse 16 substan-tial new pieces of music before going out on tour. “We just kind of jump right into it. It is pretty intense,” Simon said.

Through its different iterations, the band has developed a large and recognizable sound for itself, with original songs and arrange-ments that can contain bar-raising complexities that require precise execution.

Simon said he likes the musical challenges that he and his peers throw at each other. “It’s one of the things that I really enjoy about be-ing in the band,” he said. “It’s kind of nerve-racking ... when we first start rehearsing, trying to get all that stuff together.”

The preparation before the Jackson-themed concerts was “a bit smoother,” Simon said, because the band members didn’t get “too crazy” with their interpretations of Jackson songs.

“When we’re talking about pop music, there are very specific elements that really give the tunes their character,” he explained. “It’s much more produced. There are specific little riffs, there’s the bass line that has to be very specific, that people recognize, like for Thrill-er, for example. There’s specific grooves, and of course the melody. You can’t really alter it too much, is what I’m saying. You have to be very careful.

“But then at the same time, we don’t want to sound like a disco band, you know? That’s going to sound dated and cheesy, that’s not really what we do. So that was the challenge. How to bring that ma-terial, maintain its integrity, but bring it into our own realm and into today, so that it doesn’t sound cheesy, for lack of a better term.”

For his part, Simon arranged Jackson’s piece This Place Hotel, also known as Heartbreak Hotel. Simon said he was drawn to it by some of the tune’s harmonies, by its groove and bass line, and by its horn arrangement, penned by Quincy Jones.

“I actually stayed fairly close to the original,” Simon said. How-

ever, in a first for the collective, he and drummer Calvaire made a track containing electric guitars and keyboard-produced textures that the group plays along with in concert.

Overall, the music nudged the collective to add more elec-tric sounds to its previously all-acoustic sonic profile. “That has been one of the cool things about working with Michael’s music,” Simon said. “It has provided an op-portunity to delve into that world a little bit more, because the band has that capability.”

Although the collective is in a sense widening its own musical embrace, Simon is not that keen on jazz festivals increasingly pro-gramming non-jazz acts.

“What can I say? I guess they’re just trying to get more seats filled. It’s kind of odd that they still call it a jazz festival, though. If you want to open it up to other genres of mu-sic, maybe it should just be a music festival.

“If you’re really going to be a jazz festival, just have some jazz music,” he said with a laugh. “If the audi-ences are going to be smaller, that’s just what it is.”

Simon’s own jazz credentials are impeccable. Born in Venezuela in 1969, he moved to the U.S. as a teen-ager and honed his jazz piano skills at the Manhattan School of Music. Leaders such as saxophonist Bobby Watson and trumpeter Terence Blanchard hired Simon for their bands in the 1990s, and as a leader, Simon has worked with the cream of his jazz generation, including saxophonists Mark Turner and Da-vid Binney, bassist John Patitucci and drummer Brian Blade.

The collective’s concert in Ot-tawa is a one-off special request by the festival for the band to play. More frequently nowadays, bands play a run of Canadian fes-tival dates as part of a cost-efficient circuit.

Simon said he’s pleased that this group will enjoy pride of place on the main stage, potentially playing for thousands rather than a few hundred indoors.

“Cool, that’s great,” he said.

The SFJAZZ Collective, from San Francisco, is scheduled to play the Ottawa Jazz Festival on Friday with a salute to the music of pop star Michael Jackson.

SFJAZZ Collective plans a thriller

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MUSICS FJ A Z Z C O L L E C T I V ETD Ottawa Jazz Festival

When: Friday, June 24, 8:30 p.m.Where: Confederation ParkTickets: ottawajazzfestival.com

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Online articles about the Festival appeared on Downbeat.com, Macleans.ca and CBC.ca.


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N A S H V I L L E The hip-hop group Arrested Develop-ment is still making music on their own terms by re-leasing two albums this year — one a free download and another one for sale.

The group’s 1992 debut, 3 Years, 5 Months, and 2 Days in the Life of …, sold more than four million al-bums due to their hit singles Tennessee, Everyday Peo-ple and Mr. Wendal, which stood out in the rap genre with their spiritual and so-cially conscious lyrics about God, poverty and family.

That message hasn’t changed for Speech, the frontman of the six-piece collective, although the mu-sic industry definitely has.

“The music industry has been sick, and sales have been dismal for everybody,” said Speech, whose real name is Todd Thomas. “Nothing was happening, and we were col-lecting all this music that we felt really passionate about. So we decided to just release it, just drop it.”

Since their debut, Arrest-ed Development have been considered outliers in the genre. They were critical fa-vourites for their mix of pop, funk, rap and R&B samples and earned two Grammy awards. But Speech said the band’s positive messages didn’t always resonate with rappers or record labels.

“A lot of our peers felt like we weren’t really hip hop and they would say that,” Speech said. “So to be called ‘alternative hip hop’ was sort of a slap in the face to me. Because I understand it’s an alternative in its sub-ject matter from the gang-ster stuff, but we’re hip hop. It’s just another viewpoint.”

The band’s new albums, Change the Narrative and This Was Never Home, were released in February. The single, I Don’t See You at the Club, references the Black Lives Matter movement and the 50th anniversary of U.S. civil rights marches, but also marriage and the lack of commitment in hip hop.

“The messages are like, ‘I just want to have sex with you and leave you,’ ” said Speech, who lives in Atlanta with his wife and children. “I know that’s been the un-derlying point of rock ’n’ roll and a lot of different music. But it’s very blatant and very blunt.”

Speech, who’s on the board of the International Black Film Festival, per-formed with Arrested De-velopment for dozens of grade-school kids in Nash-ville as a part of the festival’s community program Imag-ine Me Children’s Summer Film Series in collabora-tion with Belmont Univer-sity, Nashville police, Metro Nashville Parks and Salama Urban Ministries. The group performed a couple of hits then encouraged the kids to rap and dance with them onstage.

“I feel like the young generation has so much in their hearts and so much in their minds that they need to express and need to get it out,” Speech said. “There’s a future Prince or there’s a future Michael Jackson that we’re all going to be talking about.”The Associated Press

Hip hop on their termsWe’re not ‘alt,’ say Arrested Development

Q My husband, who’s in his late 30s, doesn’t want to work. He’s well-educated and extremely bright, but he made a terrible mistake in his previously suc-cessful business, which ended

in a bankruptcy. Now he won’t start another business or take a job. He won’t even talk about it. My parents are supporting us financially, for which I’m very grateful. We have one child, age three. I work part-time but can’t easily find a full-time job here. I was once very proud of my husband’s abilities and still feel love for him, but I’m losing all respect. What should I do?Lost Business

A There’s much more at stake here than business — your mar-

riage and your own drive.Your husband’s lost all his

confidence, your parents have become rescuers, and you’re watching from the sidelines.

Instead, you need to be proac-tive and try to come up with a plan, hopefully together.

Your husband can benefit from career counselling.

A professional’s assessment of his talents and skills can reignite his interest in getting back to work that motivates him.

It’d be a new beginning, not a retread of whatever his “mistake”

was (most successful business people will tell you they’ve made plenty of them).

Meanwhile, you two could con-sider your participating with him in starting something new — even if he’s also working at a job — to build up your finances.

In time, slowly withdraw from being financially supported by your parents, and rather, enjoy their emotional support to you both, along with your child.

If none of the above works, get to a counsellor yourself to consider your feelings about all this — and your options.Read Ellie Monday to Saturday. Email [email protected]. Follow @ellieadvice.

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Reputation, and a great deal of hype, preceded Kamasi Washing-ton’s entrance onto the Na-tional Arts Centre Theatre’s stage Wednesday night.

The 34-year-old Los Angeles-based saxophonist and bandlead-er is the crown prince of the moment for a jazz sound that appeals to not just jazz fans, but to more mainstream audiences as well.

The hip-hop cred that has flowed from Washington’s associ-ations with Kendrick Lamar and Flying Lotus helped to catapult him into the musical limelight. The saxophonist’s three-hour debut album, The Epic, released a little over a year ago and hailed by many a critic and music buff, sealed the deal so that prior to Washington’s TD Ottawa Jazz

Festival concert, he played the Bonnaroo and Coachella music festivals.

Washington’s two-hour set at the NAC was likely not as unfettered as what happened at those storied events. Still, in the confines of the theatre, he and his seven-member band, The Next Step, delivered a high-energy, hard-hitting, groovy set that thoroughly entertained the nearly full house.

Washington and his group know a few things about reaching lots of people with big, extro-verted musical gestures and spectacle. This was an act with not one but two thrashing drum-mers, a singer who doubled as an interpretive dancer, an acoustic bassist who rocked out and made his instrument wail with elec-tronic effects and a keyboardist, Brandon Coleman, who strutted

his stuff during the first tune, soloing on a keytar slung around his shoulder.

Indeed, the charisma and good feeling pouring off the stage would have made the band a hit in Confederation Park, or in a large venue where standing up and dancing could have been accommodated and encouraged.

At centre stage, Washington was clearly the host of the party, a smooth storyteller at the micro-phone as well as a visceral, robust hornman emitting sassy R ‘n’ B riffs and cascades of melody.

He was very much a democratic bandleader, allowing all of his musicians to shine.

Vocalist Patrice Quinn owned her features. Among them was Henrietta Our Hero, a sweet, waltzing song by Washington that paid tribute to his grandmother. That song also featured Washing-ton’s father, Rickey, whose flute added softness and class to the proceedings.

Quinn also stepped up for the night’s penultimate tune,

The Rhythm Changes, which included a duet for the singer and Washington that peeled back the density of the music.

Some other songs were prone to moments of bombast. Mind you, if you can go as big and forceful as bassist Miles Mosley did in his rocking feature Abra-ham, which allowed him to sing soulfully and display his instru-mental virtuosity with abandon, you should.

Drummers Tony Austin and Ronald Bruner Jr. were allotted 11 minutes for a drum “conversa-tion” that began as an interactive duet before it allowed each a tumultuous monologue.

In all, this was a concert that impressed more with its scale and force that its Coltranesque depth and innovation. But to be fair to The Epic, that disc also featured a larger band, a string section and choir adding gravitas and heft to Washington’s simple, groovy, accessible material. The touring band’s efforts were more conventional.

The show was a fine and uplifting start for the festival. It was definitely a crowd-pleaser, especially for the scores of young fans that met and chatted with the amiable Washington in the lobby after his concert. But festivalgoers can hope for even more impres-sive, and even epic, music ahead.

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WASHINGTON’S A WINNERSaxophonist with hip-hop cred thrills the crowd at jazz festival opener

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Warner to repay $14M in Happy Birthday feesA U.S. judge has approved a settlement that will put Happy Birthday to You in the public do-main. U.S. District Judge George King approved the agreement Monday. It ends the owner-ship claims of Warner/Chappell Music, the music publishing company that has been collecting royalties on the song for decades. The company has agreed to pay back $14 million to those who have paid licensing fees to use the song. Last year, King ruled that the publisher did not own the lyrics to the ditty, one of the best-known and most-beloved songs in the world. He said the company has no right to charge for the song’s use. The melody had previously been ruled to be in the public domain.

‘Good giant’ known for spaghetti westernsBud Spencer, a burly comic ac-tor dubbed the “good giant” for punching out bad guys on the screen, often in a long series of spaghetti westerns, has died in Italy. He was 86. He died peacefully on Monday, his son, Giuseppe Pedersoli, told Italian news agency ANSA. Born Oct. 31, 1929 in Naples as Carlo Peder-soli, he adopted the stage name Bud Spencer — the first name inspired by the U.S. beer and the last to honour his favourite star, Spencer Tracy. Spencer’s movies delighted much of the public, but critical acclaim eluded him, Ital-ian state radio said.

Aerosmith drummer opens a ‘rockin’ caféA rock ’n’ roll-themed coffee shop owned by Aerosmith’s drummer opens Friday in North Attlebor-ough, Mass., about 60 kilometres outside the band’s hometown, Boston. Joey Kramer’s Rockin’ & Roastin’ Cafe will serve organic coffee with a rock ’n’ roll ambi-ence that includes Aerosmith memorabilia.

Suge Knight sues club, Brown over shootingFormer rap music mogul Marion (Suge) Knight sued Chris Brown and the owners of a popular nightclub on Monday after he was shot seven times at a 2014 party hosted by the R&B singer. The lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Supe-rior Court accuses Brown and the West Hollywood nightclub 1 Oak of failing to have adequate security and allowing at least one armed person into the venue during the party. Knight has cited complications from those in-juries, including a blood clot, in court appearances on an unrelated murder charge. His lawyers say Knight’s fear months after the shooting led him to flee when he was attacked in his car, running down two men and killing one. Knight is in jail awaiting trial.

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T O R O N T O The Toronto production of Kinky Boots was among the big winners at the Dora Mavor Moore Awards.

The Mirvish musical, featuring a score by pop star Cyndi Lauper, nabbed three awards in the musi-cal theatre division at a ceremony held at Harbourfront Centre’s Concert Stage in Toronto on Mon-day night.

Kinky Boots won for outstanding production, outstanding male per-formance for Alan Mingo Jr., and choreography honours for Jerry Mitchell.

The Canadian Opera Company was the front-runner in the op-era division heading into the cer-emony, and emerged as the night’s biggest winner with a total of eight awards.

The COC scored five Doras for Siegfried, including outstanding production and directing honours for Francois Girard; and three for La Traviata.

Young People’s Theatre received five Doras, including outstanding production in the theatre for young audiences division for Goodnight Moon.

Canadian Stage took home four awards, including outstanding production wins in the general theatre division for Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom, and in the dance division for Betrof-fenheit.

Canadian Stage also won an out-standing touring production Dora for Cold Blood.

In the general theatre division, Tarragon Theatre scored three wins, including outstanding new play honours for Mustard and act-ing wins for Anand Rajaram (Mus-tard) and Rebecca Northan (Blind Date).

Native Earth Performing Arts and Red One Theatre Collective each notched two awards in the independent theatre division.

Cliff Cardinal earned dual hon-ours for Native Earth’s Huff,

with wins for outstanding new play and outstanding

performance. Red One received perfor-

mance ensemble honours and a Dora for outstand-ing sound design/com-position for La Chasse Galerie.

Now into its 37th year, the Doras annually honour leading Toronto talent in the performing arts.

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Kinky Boots steps up at DorasThree wins for hit musical include top production

The Canadian Opera Company emerged as the night’s biggest winner with a total of eight awards.

Buffy Sainte-Marie, Digging RootsTD Ottawa Jazz FestivalReviewed Tuesday

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The ever-cool Buffy Sainte-Marie was unruffled when a technical glitch derailed the opening song of her headlining appearance at the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival on Tuesday.

“How do you like showbiz now?” she joked as a technician scrambled to fix the problem. She and her bandmates were well into It’s My Way, building to a powerful crescendo when things unravelled and she stopped the song.

Once the fix was made, the bold start downshifted into something more intimate, and Sainte-Marie seemed to draw the audience closer with the folky number, Farm in the Middle of Nowhere, as the backdrop of the stage ema-nated a campfire-like glow.

Dressed in black sequins that caught the lights, the glamorous Sainte-Marie took it all in stride,

even the rain, remaining every bit as warm and down-to-earth as you’d expect from a Sesame Street mom.

During her wonderful con-cert, the songwriting legend reminisced about writing her tunes, shared stories of her First Nations culture, and expressed her concern for the environment, a theme that was evident in songs like No No Keshegesh and the title track from last year’s land-mark Polaris-winning album, Power in the Blood.

That song was a hard-hitting high point of the show, but no less powerful was her beautiful rendition of the classic ballad, Universal Soldier, a song with a message she described as taking “individual responsibility about the world we’re living in.”

Also inspiring was the ensemble vocal work on We Are Circling, when Sainte-Marie’s striking voice shimmered with the urgency of the moment.

Earlier in the evening, the Win-nipeg band Digging Roots offered their own joy-filled celebration

of indigenous culture in the festi-val’s tent-housed Tartan Homes Stage.

At the core of the band are the musical talents of the husband-and-wife duo of Raven Kanetakta and ShoShona Kish. Kanetakta displayed a nimble-fingered blues-rock style on electric gui-tar, while Kish sang with a robust confidence that radiated positiv-ity. The pair were also a lot of fun to watch, particularly when he tried to make her blush with his come-hither moves.

Backed by a full band, the band mined a sturdy blues-rock groove, but with enough creativ-ity and personality to make it memorable.

Highlights included their sen-sual cover of Springsteen’s Cover Me and a passionate song called Cut My Hair that was inspired by Kish’s grandmother’s experi-ences in residential school.

Two generations later, her anguish was captured in the wail-ing guitar and emotional wallop of her granddaughter’s powerful voice.

BUFFY, AUDIENCE SLAYERBud Spencer

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S H OW S A N D EV E N T S I N A N D A R O U N D O T TAWA T H I S W E E K :I’ve Got Some Bad News: Marc Adornato, opening event June 23 at 6 p.m., exhibit to July 23, Ottawa Art Gallery, 2 Daly Ave. Correspondence: Gail Bourgeois, conceptual works affected by the Firestone Collection of Canadian Art, June 24 to Sept. 18, Ottawa Art Gallery, 2 Daly Ave.On the Grid: Jerry Grey, June 24 to Sept. 25, vernissage on June 23 at 6 p.m., Ottawa Art Gallery, 2 Daly Ave. Still Moving: Robbin Deyo, drawings and watercolours, experimenting with the Super Spirograph®, June 24 to Aug. 14, Ottawa Art Gallery, 2 Daly Ave. You Are Me: Paula Mur-ray, using the clay vessel to explore life’s paradoxes, June 24 to Sept. 25, Ottawa Art Gallery, 2 Daly Ave.The game doesn’t start until you say YES: Alana Latincic, digital prints, sculp-ture and installation, erasing the utility of objects; exhibit to July 3, Studio Sixty-Six, 66 Muriel St. Les gens sont fous: Aurélie Guillaume, jeweller, enamel-list and illustrator, June 23 to July 15, L.A. Pai Gallery, 13 Murray St.

O T H E R EV E N T S / C A L L F O R S U B M I S S I O N SCall for photography: on the theme of Gratitude, for a new exhibit at the Foyer Gallery artist-run studio, open to all artists, whether using high-end equipment or phones. The show will be published online and in the gallery in October 2016. Deadline: June 30.Call for artists: to partici-pate in the Art on the Farm show on Aug. 13 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. under a canopy on the Experimental Farm. Call to artists: to submit digital art miniprints for the eleventh international show at Voix Visuelle, from Nov. 5 to Dec. 6. The theme for this year’s exhibit is Tara Da-Da. A maximum two works, no bigger than 25 cm by 20 cm, may be submitted per artist by July 15, 2016. The submis-sion must include a text link-ing the works to the theme. Call for artists and crafts-people: to apply top exhibit original work or handmade crafts or give a demonstra-tion at the Art on the Grass event, Aug. 20, Deadline: Aug. 1. Send information on art shows and events to [email protected] by 8 a.m. Monday, two weeks before the event. Photos welcome.

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T H U R S D A YCanada Goes Country at pre-Can-ada Day Party; Rory Gardiner Trio, Angela Marie Duo, parking lot party, 5 to 11 p.m., The Cabin, 95 York St. Tickets: Free but must be reserved. Five Alarm Funk, DRAE, prog-funk, 9 p.m., Ritual, 137 Besserer St. Tickets: $12. All Star Blues Showcase with Chuck Karn, 9 p.m., Irene’s Pub, 885 Bank St. Tickets: No cover. TD Ottawa Jazz Festival: Bugala-Valihora-Griglák Trio (6 p.m., NAC Back Stage), Igor Butman and the Moscow Jazz Orchestra (7 p.m., NAC), Esmerine (7:30 p.m., Marion Dewar Plaza), Anat Fort and Gianlu-igi Trovesi Duo (8 p.m., NAC Back Stage), Chick Corea Trio (8:30 p.m., Confed. Park), Jim Bryson (10:30 p.m., Marion Dewar Plaza). Tickets: $50, passes from $90-$300. The Steady Rebels, 9 p.m., The Rainbow, 76 Murray St. Tickets: $6.

F R I D A YAll JazzFest concerts today are free! Beginning with The Central Band of the Canadian Armed Forces Ambassadors Stage Band (2 p.m.), The Riot Police (4 p.m.) and Les Poules a Colin (6 p.m.) all on the Tar-tan Homes Stage. The National Arts Centre Orchestra take over the Main Stage at 7 p.m.Canada Day on the Hill will present performances by Les Hay Babies, Indian City, Alex Nevsky, Alex Cuba, Coeur de pirate and Metric.

S A T U R D A YAt JazzFest, Michael Franti and Spearhead take the Main Stage at Confederation Park at 8:30 p.m.Back To Black, a tribute to the incredible music of English singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse. A rare stripped down performance of the critically acclaimed album Back To Black. Doors open at 8 p.m., show starts at 8:30 p.m., Live on Elgin, 200 Elgin St.Seaway (Oakville pop-punk) Cold-front (Oakville pop-punk) RARITY (Hamilton rock) Bearings (Ottawa pop-punk) Heavy Hearts (Niagara emo) and Remember The Arcadians (Ottawa pop-punk/post-hardcore) 16+ to get in/19+ to drink. Doors open at 6 p.m. Ritual Nightclub, 137 Besserer St. Tickets $13 advance + service charges.

S U N D A YBrian Wilson closes out JazzFest with his 50th anniversary of Pet Sounds tour on the Main Stage at 8:30 p.m. Confederation ParkDavid Bazan (Seattle indie-folk) and Laura Gibson (Oregon folk). 8 p.m. Pressed, 750 Gladstone Ave. All ages/licensed 19+. Tickets $20 in advance.

M O N D A YThe Music and Beyond Festival begins today and runs to July 17 with a schedule of 75 concerts! It all starts with an opening gala featuring Cirque Fantastic 7:30 p.m., Dominion-Chalmers United Church, 355 Cooper St. Tickets: $10-$70 Tuesday, July 5Music and Beyond brings Jens Lin-demann and Tommy Banks with the National Arts Centre Orchestra to the Dominion-Chalmers United Church 8 p.m. Dominion-Chalmers United Church, 355 Cooper St. Tickets: $10-$70Are you a promoter, musician or venue? Send your event information to [email protected], by 8 a.m. Monday, two weeks before the event. Photos and audio files are welcome.

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J A Z Z P E T E R H U MA smooth, sophisticated hit when she played the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival in 2014, the pure-voiced vocalist Stacey Kent, an American based in London, England, returns to the National Arts Centre Saturday, July 2. This time, plays the 900-seat NAC Theatre at 7 p.m. Tickets: ottawajazzfestival.com

B L U E S L Y N N S A X B E R GOttawa bluesman Jed Rached has fallen on tough times, but his blues buddies are rallying to help with a day-long blues and barbecue bash at Moose McGuire’s, 3220 McCarty Rd. Performers include Toronto harp-meister Jerome Godboo, guitar wiz Wild T, Ottawa’s Drew Nelson and many more, including Rached’s band, the Fat City 8. The music starts at 1

p.m. and runs to 1 a.m. Sunday on two stages, one indoors and one outside. Silent-auction items and door prizes are also available. Earlybird tickets are $15, or $20 at the door. Funds raised will help Rached, who has been unable to work for several years due to chronic back pain and depression.

T H E A T R E P A T R I C K L A N G S T O NTravel broadens the mind. So the young Pericles discovers when, flee-ing a singularly unpleasant king, he voyages to far-off lands, encounter-ing along the way pirates, princesses and a bunch of other neat folks. You can tag along when A Company of Fools presents The Amazing Adven-tures of Pericles, Prince of Tyre in Ottawa parks July 4-Aug. 20. This production of the rarely-seen Shake-spearean play includes original music

and veteran Ottawa actors Mary Ellis and Pierre Brault. 613-863-7529, fools.ca

F O O D L A U R A R O B I NCanada Day can be not only be fun, but delicious: Dominion City Brew-ing is putting on its second annual Dominion Day party at Arts Court. The $32 admission (choose after-noon or evening) gets you a stubby and a sausage on a bun, as well as all kinds of fun, games and great music. You’ll also be able to buy a range of cask beers, taste four new Dominion City beers and purchase food from fantastic chefs: a “Quebecano” sandwich from Stephen La Salle of Andaz (think smoked duck in place of pork, $8), ketchup chips from Town ($2), salads from Clover ($5) and ice cream truffles from Moo Shu ice cream ($5 for two). dominionday.ca

C L A S S I C A L S T E V E N M A Z E YMusic and Beyond, the classical music festival running July 4 to 17, returns with 75 concerts and mouth-watering programming. The opening July 4 at Dominion-Chalmers Church combines music and circus with performers from Montreal’s Cirque Fantastic. Other highlights include a concert at the Diefenbunker July 5; the NAC Orchestra with pianist-con-ductor Tommy Banks and trumpeter Jens Lindemann the same evening at Dominion-Chalmers; and a don’t-miss screening of the brilliant 1949 film The Third Man at the Mayfair Theatre July 6, with the haunting zither score performed live by Ruth Anna Lindemeir. Musicandbeond.ca

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Ottawa guitar slinger Jesse Greene shows off the new tunes from her sophomore album, Find It Tonight, twice this weekend. On Friday, she’s one of the acts at the Mountain Man Music Festival in Calabogie (mountainmanfestival.com), followed by a gig across the river at the Black Sheep Inn in Wakefield on Saturday night ($10 advance at theblacksheepinn.com). Recorded live off the floor with Ottawa producer Dean Watson at his Glebe studio, the new album incorporates elements of reggae, soul and folk into her bluesy style. The Saturday show starts at 8:30 p.m. with an opening set by the Ottawa band How Far To Mexico. WAY N E C U D D I NG T O N

Stacey Kent will be performing at the NAC Theatre at 7 p.m. on Saturday.

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One a day when the leaders of Canada, the United States of America and Mexico were engaged in high-level talks in Ottawa, a more informal interna-tional jazz summit took place in Confederation Park.

Wednesday night on the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival’s main stage, Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra invited members of the Moscow Jazz Orchestra, who have their own

festival concert Thursday, to play with them.

As he was closing his own concert, Marsalis magnanimously invited his Russian counterpart, saxophonist Igor Butman, and “all of his cats, who ever wants to come up,” to join in on Horace Silver’s Señor Blues.

“We’re going to have our brothers sit in and play with us,” Marsalis said. About a half- dozen Russian musicians took the trum-peter up on his offer, stepping up to the microphone to play.

It was a fine, memorable display of jazz’s spontaneity and open-ness, entirely consistent with the JALC Orchestra’s role as ambas-sadors for jazz.

For almost 30 years, the Manhattan-based big band has charged itself with a mission statement that might strike some as overly lofty. More than a gig, jazz for Marsalis and company is about entertaining, yes, but also about spreading the gospel about jazz’s virtues, of which improvis-ing, swinging and its blues foun-dation are central.

This can strike some as old-fashioned, limiting and perhaps too serious. But to be blasé about Marsalis and the JALC Orchestra is to be blasé about jazz, as the Orchestra demonstrated in the park.

The jazz-star trumpeter, 54, and his 15-person ensemble backed

up their mission statement and then some with potent, passion-ate, superbly crafted music.

The Orchestra’s first two pieces were true-to-mission canoni-cal, with Marsalis calling on the orchestra to perform Theloni-ous Monk’s Epistrophy and then Duke Ellington’s Lady Mac.

The former had been zip-pily arranged, beginning with a reggae-ish groove before snap-ping into rangy swinging. The Ellington piece, a waltz from the maestro’s Such Sweet Thunder, was classy and evocative, rich with saxophone vibrato.

No piece was more classic and historical than a mid-concert rendition of George Gershwin’s Summertime, which Marsalis noted in detail was a transcription

of an arrangement by the seminal New Orleans saxophonist Sidney Bechet.

But the orchestra also branched out with the much more modern Chick Corea minor blues Wig-wam. Then, the composing tal-ents of orchestra saxophonist Ted Nash came under the spotlight with his piece inspired by the paintings of abstract expression-ist Jackson Pollock.

The group executed these and other pieces with stunning preci-sion and feeling. And when it was time for soloists to stray from the page and improvise, they were no less impressive.

Marsalis gets top billing, and he soloed with abandon and daring. But his colleagues were no less formidable. Pianist Dan Nim-mer, bassist Carlos Enriquez and drummer Ali Jackson were ster-ling accompanists and soloists, and the great horn players were just too numerous to mention.

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The TD Ottawa Jazz Festival is set to take over Confederation Park with one of its most musically diverse lineups in the festival’s 36-year history.

The festivities get underway on Thursday with a special pre-festival kickoff performance by American jazz saxophonist Ka-masi Washington at the NAC Theatre, home to a number of high calibre shows at this year’s festival.

Last year, Washington released

his debut studio album, The Epic, to glowing reviews in both the jazz and mainstream press. He was also featured on the critic-ally acclaimed Kendrick Lamar record, To Pimp a Butterfly.

Entertainment on the main stagegets going Friday with a bluesy lineup that includes a joint performance by two legends — Elvin Bishop and Charlie Musselwhite — as well as blues guitarist Alvin ‘Young-blood’ Hart’s Muscle Theory, Toronto-based New Orleans-style brass band The Boxcar Boys and jazz big band Flat Earth Society.

One of the most successful

and beloved Canadian singer-songwriters of all time, Sarah McLachlan, will perform at the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival on Satur-day. In her nearly 30 year career, McLachlan has sold more than

40 million albums worldwide, and has won nine Juno Awards and three Grammys.

On June 29, fellow Grammy Award winner Wynton Marsalis leads 15 of the world’s finest

soloists, ensemble players and arrangers in jazz music today, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Or-chestra (the house band for the jazz program at the performing arts centre in New York City) — on the main stage in Confedera-tion Park.

Also appearing on the main stage throughout the festival is 2015 Polaris Music Prize winner Buffy Sainte-Marie on June 28, Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue on June 27 and the super-star trio of Chick Corea, Chris-tian McBride and Brian Blade on June 30.

Closing out the main stage

lineup on July 3 is Beach Boys’ leader Brian Wilson’s Pet Sounds 50th Anniversary tour, which celebrates the golden anniver-sary of one of the most iconic albums in pop music history.

The always popular OLG After Dark Series is back this year as well. Every night at 10:30 p.m., after the performances wrap up in Confederation Park, the tented Tartan Homes Stage at Marion Dewar Plaza is the place to be to keep the party going. This year, the OLG After Dark Series features performances by Judith Hill, Jim Bryson, Adrian Raso, and more.

The TD Ottawa Jazz Festival, running June 22 to July 3, will have one of its most musically diverse lineups in it’s 36-year history. Julie-Anne MAdore

Beach Boys’ leader Brian Wilson will perform Pet Sounds 50th anniversary tour July 3. Getty iMAGes

American jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington kicks off the jazz festival on Thursday at the NAC Theatre. Getty iMAGes

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5 shows worth seeing at the winter Jazz FestivalThe TD Ottawa Winter Jazz Festival starts this week with a jazz-folk combo and ends with an acoustic guitar trio reminiscent of Radiohead and Rush. Get your eclectic fill at the National Arts Centre’s Fourth Stage. lucy scholey meTRO

Fraser hollins Quartet Montreal guitare trio (Mg3)You may hear hints of Radiohead, Jorane and Rush in the soft tunes of this acoustic Quebec guitar trio on Sunday at 8 p.m. Buy your tickets online at ottawajazzfestival.ca or in person at the event’s box office on 294 Albert St., Suite 602.

Petr cancura’s crossroads with lynn Miles

The man behind jazz fest’s musical lineup will be on the stage himself. Juno-nominated saxophonist Petr Cancura, the event’s programming manager, will play an opening set with his Crossroads band and award-winning folk singer Lynn miles. Their show gets underway Thursday at 7:30 p.m.

David virelles & román Díaz

Afro-Cuban jazz musician David Virelles has been called a leading musician of his genre. His latest album, mbòkó, topped year-end roundups in the New York Times, NPR and the Village Voice. The duo take the stage on Saturday starting at 9 p.m.

Mouse on the KeysWith nothing more than two keyboards and a drum set, this Japanese trio punches out a complex prog-jazz-funk sound. They play on Sunday starting at 6 p.m.

Big names are behind the Fraser Hollins Quartet. Besides heavyweight bassist (and Ottawa native) Fraser Hollins, the band includes Juno Award-winning saxophonist Joel miller, Joni mitchell pianist-backer Jon Cowherd and renowned drummer Brian Blade, who has recorded with Bob Dylan. Catch them on Friday at 9 p.m.

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When Peter Vermeersch, band leader of the unpredictable (sometimes even startling) Flat Earth Society, started looking for a film for the 14-piece outfit to accompany, the usual would not do.

“I was really interested to do something with live music on a film, but you know it’s always a bit the same pond we’re fishing in. It’s always the Murnaus and Faust and the old things,” he said.

Then he discovered The Oyster Princess, Ernst Lubitsch’s 1919 comedy about the blow-out wedding of a millionaire’s daugh-ter. “I was thinking, well, it’s a lot of work to do something like this, so I want some-thing that is nice for all kinds of people, people who are not especially coming for our music, but for a good film. It could be a family thing, and it also has a very cinematic interest because at that moment, it was a bit of a forgotten film.”

The action on the screen, he says, serves a “door-opener” to draw in new audiences for the music, and repeated performances have only deepened his appreciation. Flat Earth Society plays the Tartan Homes Stage Thursday, June 23 at 10:30 p.m. Steve collinS

Flat earth Society

With artists like Buffy Sainte-Marie, Tanya Tagaq and Ottawa’s own A Tribe Called Red making waves here at home and inter-nationally, it’s safe to say Canadian indigen-ous music is finally starting to break through the mainstream.

In fact, Raven Kanatakta of the four-time Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards winning husband and wife duo Digging Roots, calls what’s happening now a “renaissance.”

“It’s an exciting time,” he said. “I would definitely call it a renaissance. I think one of the reasons is that we’re getting further away from the times when we were not allowed to play our drums or to sing our songs or, for that matter, to even speak our language. I think that it’s a time when people are feeling empowered and, as a result, that’s coming through the music. There’s a lot of history that Canadians just don’t know.”

That history has always been deeply em-bedded in the music Kanatakta and wife ShoShona Kish create through Digging Roots. Digging Roots plays Tuesday, June 28 at 7:30 p.m. at Tartan Homes Stage. Jen traplin

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When the time came to name their debut CD, Ottawa’s leMeow went back to the beginning, back to York St.

“We have our roots on York Street in some ways,” explained singer and co-founder Gin Bourgeois. “James [Rooke] and I, my partner, he’s one of the found-ing members of leMeow, when we first started working on this project, he was actually living on York Street, and for anyone who’s familiar with Ottawa, you know there’s a lot of live music venues on that street, there’s a lot of bars, a lot of action.”

“We just had some really good times on York Street, specifically at that apart-ment and we just sort of felt like, well, we’re not living there anymore, but we wanted to pay homage to it in some way, so one thing led to another and now we’ve got a song and an album dedicated to our York Street memories.” Visit facebook.com/lemeowmusic for more.

leMeow plays a free show at the Rideau Centre Saturday July 2 at noon.Steve collinS

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From as far back as he can remember, re-nowned jazz drummer Dan Brubeck always knew he would have a career in music.

Brubeck is the son of iconic American jazz pianist Dave Brubeck and jazz lyricist Iola Bru-beck, which meant there was no shortage of artistic influences when Dan was growing up.

“There was a flow of really artistic people coming in and out of the house all the time and my dad had rehearsals a lot at the house. What we didn’t know was that a lot of the people that were playing with him were con-sidered some of the best musicians in the world. You don’t know that as a little kid,” he said.

Five of the six Brubeck children went on to become professional working musicians. While still a teenager, Dan Brubeck started touring the world with his dad’s group, the Dave Brubeck Quartet, and, over the years, was featured on nearly a dozen of his albums.

While he continues to perform and record with his siblings, Brubeck’s main focus these days is on the Vancouver-based Dan Brubeck Quartet (DBQ). Dan Brubeck Quartet performs Monday, June 27 at 6:30 p.m. at Main Stage Confederation Park. Jen traplin

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Metro produced a six-page special insert section published on Wednesday, June 22, 2016.


Exclaim! covered the 2016 Festival extensively, reviewing numerous shows such as: Brian Wilson, Wynton Marsalis and Jazz Lincoln Center Orchestra, The Thing, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Colin Stetson, Dan Brubeck Quartet, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Ben Caplan and Sarah McLachlan.

Online articles about the Festival appeared on JazzTimes.com, Exclaim.ca and NCPRmusic.org


Troy Andrews, better known as Trombone Shorty, brought his bold and brassy New Orle-ans funk to the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival on Monday, this time appearing as a headliner on the main stage.

No question, he’s earned the billing.

R e c e n t l y n a m e d o n e of Forbes’s 30 Under 30, Andrews has been a musician for most of his life, forming his fi rst band when he was just six years old. Now 30, he’s played with everyone from Lenny Kravitz to Green Day, and has a deep knowledge of mod-ern musical styles, mixing it all into an intoxicating fusion that can’t help but attract adventurous listeners.

He also spearheads a chari-table foundation that aims to preserve the musical culture of New Orleans by sharing its traditions with young musi-cians.

A noble effort, to be sure, but it’s his crowd-pleasing live show that forms the root of his success. With his band, Orle-ans Avenue, Andrews’s stage experience was evident in the natural showmanship he brought to the stage, and his unfailing confi dence as a ban-dleader.

Right out of the gate, his namesake instrument was front and centre, a bombas-tic force that opened the show with a blast.

From there, Andrews added the role of lead singer to his list of duties. Although his range as a vocalist is limited, he makes up for it with enthu-siasm and energy, along with a few decent dance moves. Being young, good-looking and talented doesn’t hurt, either.

“I wanna take y’all deep d o w n t o N e w O r l e a n s ,”

Andrews declared at one point, although there were side trips through rock ‘n’ roll, soul and hip hop before he got to the Mardi Gras.

In true jazz-improv style, he also urged his musicians to step up, whether for a sizzling electric guitar solo or nasty saxophone workout. Musi-cians on bass, guitar, drums and a pair of saxophones helped him preach the Big Easy gospel, ending with the rousing strains of When the Saints Go Marching In.

Earlier in the evening, bushy Canadian troubadour Ben Caplan practically raised the roof of the festival’s tent stage next to city hall. He dug into the songs from last year’s excellent album, Birds With Broken Wings, projecting his deep, booming voice into the stratosphere.

Fresh from a w e ekend gig at the Perth Kilt Run, the wildly bearded Caplan alter-nated between acoustic gui-tar, banjo, and, to his delight, a Steinway grand piano. “I ask

for it at every gig and never get it,” he said, thanking the jazz festival for its generosity.

Accompanied by Ottawa drummer Jamie Kronick, a bassist from Halifax, and his partner, singer-pianist Taryn Kawaja, the smartly dressed Caplan was in fine form, although red-faced from the heat.

“It’s a real scorcher,” he remarked between songs. “I feel like this humidity calls for a heart-wrenching break-up song.”

There was no argument from the attentive audience. In addition to that break-up tune, Drift Apart, highlights of a terrifi c set included Belly of the Worm, I Got Me a Woman,and Under Control.

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The Ottawa Sun n Monday, June 27, 2016 NEWS 9

MonTeBeLLo, Que. — any sane person would have sought out shade and a cool drink, but that wasn’t the choice for alex Martel and the tens of thousands of rock fans who attended the 11th annual Rockfest, the event Martel founded in his hometown of Montebello, Que., when he was 17 years old.

Instead, they camped out and saw bands, including Rise against, Blink-182, Limp Bizkit, Jane’s addiction and Korn, to name a few of the dozens of metal, punk and hardcore acts at what may have been the biggest, hottest, dustiest and most colourful edition of amnesia Rockfest.

The three days of ear-splitting rock wrapped up in the wee hours of Sunday morning with organizers declared another sellout, the fourth in a row. Close to 200,000 people are estimated to have made the trek to the parking lot of the municipal marina in the West Quebec village.

“It’s the best year so far in terms of everything running smoothly,” said Martel in an interview on Saturday. “We really have our formula.”

For the most part, things were peaceful. With a lineup that appealed to men in their late 20s and early 30s, diving into the mosh pit was an effective way to relive a misspent youth.

a rubber dinghy, a dude in a furry panda suit, lit firecrackers and a large section of metal fencing were some of the more

unusual life forms to emerge from the mosh pit.

Limp Bizkit singer Fred durst did his best to rile up the testosterone-fuelled Saturday-night crowd with an intense performance, which included an offer of free alcohol, supposedly from Martel. other highlights included Ice Cube and his determination to show that Hollywood hasn’t erased his thugness, an epic grand finale by Chicago punks Rise against, and Lamb of God with a ferociously raging late-afternoon set.

The folk-metal Finnish band Korpiklaani included a dreadlocked screamer of a front man, a bearded bassist in a kilt, a punk accordionist and a blond fiddler who was one of the few women on stage playing an instrument during the entire weekend. They supplied an entertaining blast of anthemic metal with elements of ska and a dab of polka, a refreshing counter to the likes of Corrosion of Conformity, anthrax and Sodom.

also memorable were the groovy Jane’s addiction show on Friday, the fun ‘n’ furious romp by L.a. veterans noFX, a triumphant comeback by Canada’s Sum 41, whose singer deryk Whibley looked (and sounded) in good shape after nearly drinking himself to death a couple of years ago, and an intense workout by Billy Talent, who dedicated a song to the Tragically Hip’s Gord downie.


aEdaN hElmEr

Ottawa festival fans got their funk on in a big way Sunday, with a full-throttle soul revue courtesy of Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, who closed out the festival’s first weekend with some hot soul to match the weather.

Anyone who recalls the leg-endary soul-stirring shows at the sweaty Babylon club all those years ago would have been well-advised to bring their dancing shoes to the Confederation Park lawn, as the Dap-Kings started heating up the stage — and the crowd — long before the latter-day Queen of Funk took centre stage.

The crack eight-piece band — who cut their teeth back-ing Lee Fields before break-ing out with Amy Winehouse on her first U.S. tour — deliv-ered on an early promise to “keep it funky” with a med-ley of classic soul tunes, wel-coming backup singers Saun-dra Williams and Starr Dun-can Lowe to take vocal duties while Jones prepared for her grand entrance.

“ S h e ’s n o s t r a n g e r t o Ottawa, nor is she to any turn-table in any dance floor in the world,” came her introduction,

as Jones strutted on stage in sparkling purple sequin out-fit with pink tassels in perpet-ual motion, her head clean-shaven (the 60-year-old Jones has been battling cancer, as she acknowledged early with some inspiring words.)

“When I get a little under the weather, and these last few months it’s been kicking my butt, but you know what? I’m gonna do my show and I’m gonna overcome this. Every time I get on this stage and this mic gets in my hand, and I look out at this audi-ence, you-all inspire me to keep going,” she declared as the crowd roared.

She held nothing back as the band launched into If You Call, from 2010’s I Learned the Hard Way, and her pipes were as powerful as ever on Retreat!, the leadoff sin-gle from the band’s 2014 Grammy-nominated Give the People What They Want.

She did precisely as prom-ised in a powerhouse perform-ance, ramping up the energy on stage with every passing verse and whipping herself

into a hip-shaking frenzy on Long Time, Wrong Time, flow-ing into an extended jam with Jones freestyling, and chan-nelling her idol James Brown on the intros for each member of her band.

And while they already have a well-earned reputation as perhaps the most fiercely devoted — and convincing — retro soul revue going, it was clear each individual player had his share of chops.

“I love my band! They have my back, and they’ve been behind me,” she said, breath-lessly, before debuting a brand new tune called These Tears.

Stranger to My Happiness followed, with brass blar-ing over a thumping bass, but each song was simply a launch pad for Jones and her prime time players to show-case their prowess over the Dap-Kings relentless groove.

The band might have been groomed in the studio by Mark Ronson (of Uptown Funk fame), but this was vin-tage downtown funk, down and dirty, and undeniably authentic.

If any proof was required, it was provided with Jones and her band striking up a spot-on rendition of the classic soul torch song Every Beat of My Heart, with Jones channelling Gladys Knight, despite her initial hesitation over tack-ling the tune: “This is a song I wanna do, but my voice is cracking.”

There was no evidence of the slightest weakness — vocal or otherwise — as Jones and her band kept feet moving and bodies grooving through the soulful She Ain’t a Child No More, the swampy He Said I Can, and Get Up and Get Out, played “nice and slow” to allow Jones to let loose in the style of another hero, Tina Turner.

Jones said that song has taken on a new meaning since her diagnosis, but for Jones music is her best medicine: “I have cancer, cancer don’t have me. I’m shouting, Can-cer, you got to get up and get out!”

The TD Ottawa Jazz Fes-tival serves up another slate of eclectic offerings Monday, with Trombone Shorty, Ben Caplan, Dan Brubeck and Colin Stetson.

[email protected] twitter.com/helmera

‘Best year so far,’ raves Rockfest

organizer

Play that funky musicSharon Jones and the Dap-Kings

gave fans exactly what they wanted

WayNE CuddiNgtoN

Punk rock fans get into the spirit as the annual Amnesia Rockfest invaded the village of Montebello in Quebec, about an hour away from Ottawa and Montreal.

aShlEy FraSEr

Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings play on the Confederation Park main stage yesterday as part of TD Ottawa Jazz Festival.

The Ottawa Sun n Monday, June 27, 2016 NEWS 9

MonTeBeLLo, Que. — any sane person would have sought out shade and a cool drink, but that wasn’t the choice for alex Martel and the tens of thousands of rock fans who attended the 11th annual Rockfest, the event Martel founded in his hometown of Montebello, Que., when he was 17 years old.

Instead, they camped out and saw bands, including Rise against, Blink-182, Limp Bizkit, Jane’s addiction and Korn, to name a few of the dozens of metal, punk and hardcore acts at what may have been the biggest, hottest, dustiest and most colourful edition of amnesia Rockfest.

The three days of ear-splitting rock wrapped up in the wee hours of Sunday morning with organizers declared another sellout, the fourth in a row. Close to 200,000 people are estimated to have made the trek to the parking lot of the municipal marina in the West Quebec village.

“It’s the best year so far in terms of everything running smoothly,” said Martel in an interview on Saturday. “We really have our formula.”

For the most part, things were peaceful. With a lineup that appealed to men in their late 20s and early 30s, diving into the mosh pit was an effective way to relive a misspent youth.

a rubber dinghy, a dude in a furry panda suit, lit firecrackers and a large section of metal fencing were some of the more

unusual life forms to emerge from the mosh pit.

Limp Bizkit singer Fred durst did his best to rile up the testosterone-fuelled Saturday-night crowd with an intense performance, which included an offer of free alcohol, supposedly from Martel. other highlights included Ice Cube and his determination to show that Hollywood hasn’t erased his thugness, an epic grand finale by Chicago punks Rise against, and Lamb of God with a ferociously raging late-afternoon set.

The folk-metal Finnish band Korpiklaani included a dreadlocked screamer of a front man, a bearded bassist in a kilt, a punk accordionist and a blond fiddler who was one of the few women on stage playing an instrument during the entire weekend. They supplied an entertaining blast of anthemic metal with elements of ska and a dab of polka, a refreshing counter to the likes of Corrosion of Conformity, anthrax and Sodom.

also memorable were the groovy Jane’s addiction show on Friday, the fun ‘n’ furious romp by L.a. veterans noFX, a triumphant comeback by Canada’s Sum 41, whose singer deryk Whibley looked (and sounded) in good shape after nearly drinking himself to death a couple of years ago, and an intense workout by Billy Talent, who dedicated a song to the Tragically Hip’s Gord downie.


aEdaN hElmEr

Ottawa festival fans got their funk on in a big way Sunday, with a full-throttle soul revue courtesy of Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, who closed out the festival’s first weekend with some hot soul to match the weather.

Anyone who recalls the leg-endary soul-stirring shows at the sweaty Babylon club all those years ago would have been well-advised to bring their dancing shoes to the Confederation Park lawn, as the Dap-Kings started heating up the stage — and the crowd — long before the latter-day Queen of Funk took centre stage.

The crack eight-piece band — who cut their teeth back-ing Lee Fields before break-ing out with Amy Winehouse on her first U.S. tour — deliv-ered on an early promise to “keep it funky” with a med-ley of classic soul tunes, wel-coming backup singers Saun-dra Williams and Starr Dun-can Lowe to take vocal duties while Jones prepared for her grand entrance.

“ S h e ’s n o s t r a n g e r t o Ottawa, nor is she to any turn-table in any dance floor in the world,” came her introduction,

as Jones strutted on stage in sparkling purple sequin out-fit with pink tassels in perpet-ual motion, her head clean-shaven (the 60-year-old Jones has been battling cancer, as she acknowledged early with some inspiring words.)

“When I get a little under the weather, and these last few months it’s been kicking my butt, but you know what? I’m gonna do my show and I’m gonna overcome this. Every time I get on this stage and this mic gets in my hand, and I look out at this audi-ence, you-all inspire me to keep going,” she declared as the crowd roared.

She held nothing back as the band launched into If You Call, from 2010’s I Learned the Hard Way, and her pipes were as powerful as ever on Retreat!, the leadoff sin-gle from the band’s 2014 Grammy-nominated Give the People What They Want.

She did precisely as prom-ised in a powerhouse perform-ance, ramping up the energy on stage with every passing verse and whipping herself

into a hip-shaking frenzy on Long Time, Wrong Time, flow-ing into an extended jam with Jones freestyling, and chan-nelling her idol James Brown on the intros for each member of her band.

And while they already have a well-earned reputation as perhaps the most fiercely devoted — and convincing — retro soul revue going, it was clear each individual player had his share of chops.

“I love my band! They have my back, and they’ve been behind me,” she said, breath-lessly, before debuting a brand new tune called These Tears.

Stranger to My Happiness followed, with brass blar-ing over a thumping bass, but each song was simply a launch pad for Jones and her prime time players to show-case their prowess over the Dap-Kings relentless groove.

The band might have been groomed in the studio by Mark Ronson (of Uptown Funk fame), but this was vin-tage downtown funk, down and dirty, and undeniably authentic.

If any proof was required, it was provided with Jones and her band striking up a spot-on rendition of the classic soul torch song Every Beat of My Heart, with Jones channelling Gladys Knight, despite her initial hesitation over tack-ling the tune: “This is a song I wanna do, but my voice is cracking.”

There was no evidence of the slightest weakness — vocal or otherwise — as Jones and her band kept feet moving and bodies grooving through the soulful She Ain’t a Child No More, the swampy He Said I Can, and Get Up and Get Out, played “nice and slow” to allow Jones to let loose in the style of another hero, Tina Turner.

Jones said that song has taken on a new meaning since her diagnosis, but for Jones music is her best medicine: “I have cancer, cancer don’t have me. I’m shouting, Can-cer, you got to get up and get out!”

The TD Ottawa Jazz Fes-tival serves up another slate of eclectic offerings Monday, with Trombone Shorty, Ben Caplan, Dan Brubeck and Colin Stetson.

[email protected] twitter.com/helmera

‘Best year so far,’ raves Rockfest

organizer

Play that funky musicSharon Jones and the Dap-Kings

gave fans exactly what they wanted

WayNE CuddiNgtoN

Punk rock fans get into the spirit as the annual Amnesia Rockfest invaded the village of Montebello in Quebec, about an hour away from Ottawa and Montreal.

aShlEy FraSEr

Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings play on the Confederation Park main stage yesterday as part of TD Ottawa Jazz Festival.

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PETER ROBB

It was hard not to feel nos-talgic Sunday night at the TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival. After all, the weather was a perfect back-drop for the music of the Endless Summer and a cel-ebration with Brian Wilson marking the 50th birthday of his seminal album, Pet Sounds.

The disc, released in May 1966, wasn’t a smash success

in terms of sales out of the gate. In fact, it did better in the United Kingdom than it did in the United States. But, over time, Wilson’s intricate studio-built album was rec-ognized as heralding Qa new musical mindset ; one that influenced many other art-ists, including Paul McCa-rtney, who has said that Pet Sounds prompted the crea-tion of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, which was released a year later in

1967.Wilson, who is now 73, has

been on an extensive tour. He was joined by former Beach Boy Al Jardine and a 10-piece band. In the ensem-ble was Jardine’s son, Matt, who handled some of the key falsetto parts, particularly on Wouldn’t It Be Nice.

T h e s h o w d i d f e a t u r e the entire song l ist from the album and it also ran through a string of hits from the Beach Boys’ catalogue.

For fans of a certain vin-tage, and there were many in the audience Sunday night, the Beach Boys provided the sound track of their youth. They were treated to a full dose of those hits.

S ongs such as Cal i for-nia Girls, Surfer Girl and I Get Around preceded Pet Sounds. The complicated mix of influences on that album requires a large and talented ensemble to recre-ate on stage. The band fea-

tured woodwinds, lots of gui-tars and drums and the har-monies many associate with classic Beach Boys songs.

After Pet Sounds finished with a nice version of Caro-line, No, Wilson et al off ered up some Good Vibrations. That was followed by a long list of encore tunes as the enthusiast ic crow d sang along with Help Me Rhonda, Surfin’ USA and Fun, Fun, Fun.

Brian Wilson transports Jazz Festival crowd back in time

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O T T A W A C I T I Z E N T U E S D A Y , N O V E M B E R 2 4 , 2 0 1 5 S E C T I O N D

Brian Blade, the profound and ex-plosive drummer who has played with Daniel Lanois, Herbie Han-cock, Wayne Shorter and his own acclaimed Fellowship Band over the years in Ottawa, will be play-ing the National Arts Centre’s in-timate Fourth Stage in February — but as the sideman in the band of a Gloucester-raised musician.

Blade, who has also recorded with Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Marianne Faithful, will sit on the drummer’s throne with the quartet of Montreal-based, Blackburn Hamlet-raised bassist Fraser Hollins on Friday, Feb. 5, as part of the 2016 TD Ottawa Winter Jazz Festival.

Completing Hollins’ quartet will be Montreal saxophonist Joel Miller and New York pianist Jon Cowherd — Blade’s longtime col-laborator in the Fellowship Band and other projects.

While this group led by Hollins performs infrequently, its musi-cians have a history together. Hol-

lins and Cowherd were roommates in New York in the late 1990s and Hollins occasionally took part in Fellowship Band rehearsals when its bassist was absent.

Blade thanked Hollins in the lin-er notes of his 2008 album Season of Changes. That year, Hollins told the Citizen: “I remember when I first started hearing Brian, I kind of thought, ‘Boy, if one day I get to just play for a minute with him, that will be it for me, I’m going to be cool.’ And then I got the privi-lege of doing so a few times ... I just feel very blessed to have been able to do that.”

Those Blade rehearsals, Hollins then said, were “just a few experi-ences in a lifetime of music, but definitely among the ones that I remember very fondly and really smile about a lot.”

The Hollins concert is one of nine taking place at the Fourth Stage from Feb. 4 to 7 as part of the fifth annual winter jazz weekend.

Completing the festival’s bill is a

diverse lineup that includes a local jazz-funk band, a smooth, swing-ing chanteuse, a bracing duo of Cuban musicians, and a Japanese underground post-rock trio.

Opening the festival is a free concert by Ottawa groove outfit the Chocolate Hot Pockets on Friday, Feb. 5 at 5 p.m. That rest of the night will see shows by the impeccable Toronto-based trio of saxophonist Mike Murley, guitar-ist Reg Schwager and bassist Steve

Wallace at 7 p.m. and then the Hol-lins band at 9 p.m.

The next night will feature shows by Ottawa bassist John Geggie’s new Journey Band, which blends world music, baroque music and jazz aspects, followed by the polished chanteuse Carol Welsman and then the earthy and exploratory duo of pianist David Virelles and percussionist Román Díaz, two Cuban expatriates based in New York.

The Sunday concerts will be by the Japanese trio Mouse on the Keys, a trippy electronica-and-hip-hop-meets-jazz band that consists of a drummer and two keyboardists, and the Montréal Guitare Trio.

On Thursday, Feb. 4, there will be a concert by Petr Cancura, Ottawa multi-instrumentalist and the jazz festival’s program-ming manager, with Ottawa sing-er-songwriter Lynn Miles. It is a co-production between the NAC and the jazz festival.

ALL THAT JAZZBrian Blade on the bill at February jazz fest, writes Peter Hum.

Brian Blade performing at the 2009 Ottawa International Jazz Festival in Confederation Park. M I K E C A R RO C C E T T O / O T TAWA C I T I Z E N F I L E S

2 0 1 6 T D O T T AWA W I N T E R J A Z Z F E S T I VA L

When: February 4 to 7Where: National Arts Centre Fourth StageTickets: $22 to $32 for single concerts, $40 or $50 for evening pass, $77.50 for Friday-to-Saturday pass; ot-tawajazzfestival.com

Renovation of the National Arts Centre will begin in December.

The start of work is earlier than originally proposed to ensure that the completion of a new Elgin Street atrium entrance by July 1, 2017. Work on the NAC’s main ban-quet space, the Panorama Room, will be finished by January 2018.

The $110-million project will see improvements to performance spaces, public areas for education and events, full accessibility for people with mobility challenges, and a sparkling glass shell that will encompass the side of the NAC fac-ing Elgin Street and the National War Memorial.

The project is designed by the ar-chitectural firm Diamond Schmitt.

The builder is PCL Constructors Inc. The NAC will stay open for business during the renovations.

“The decision to stay open wasn’t an easy one,” said Peter Herrndorf, CEO of the National Arts Centre, in a media release. “We were very aware that the work involved for a project of this scale would mean a good deal of inconvenience to our patrons. On the other hand, we knew that our audience depends on us to bring the best of the perform-ing arts to the Nation’s Capital. In the end, and after careful consid-eration, we’ve decided to remain open during the 2015-2016 and 2016-17 artistic seasons.”

Here are some of the impacts of the construction.

O N P E R F O R M A N C E SConstruction will occur outside

performance hours on weekdays between midnight and 2 p.m. Eve-ning and weekend shows will go ahead as planned. Because of day-time construction, some school matinées, daytime performances and rehearsals will be cancelled or moved within the NAC or to other venues across the city. The Fourth Stage will be closed start-ing in the spring of 2016 until July 2017, however many of the shows and community events presented here will be moved to other the Centre’s performance halls.

O N L E C A F ÉDue to the daytime disruption

caused by the renovation, le café will be closing for lunch from Janu-ary 4, 2016 until June 26, 2017. Le café will remain open, however, for dinner in the evening. The NAC’s catering operations will be consid-erably reduced during the renova-tions.

O N C O N S T RU C T I O N The public will begin to see

physical changes to the building between December and January, including hoarding that will be installed on Elgin Street and on the northeastern side of the ter-race overlooking Confederation Square. PCL will also begin to re-move concrete tiles on the north terrace in January. Inside the NAC, work will begin near the Fountain Room and in the space between the main reception desk and the Theatre lobby.

Visitors may also see some work being done in the garages to strengthen some of the NAC’s sup-porting structure.

NAC’s renos to begin soonDecember start for $110M project

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5 shows worth seeing at the winter Jazz FestivalThe TD Ottawa Winter Jazz Festival starts this week with a jazz-folk combo and ends with an acoustic guitar trio reminiscent of Radiohead and Rush. Get your eclectic fill at the National Arts Centre’s Fourth Stage. lucy scholey meTRO

Fraser hollins Quartet Montreal guitare trio (Mg3)You may hear hints of Radiohead, Jorane and Rush in the soft tunes of this acoustic Quebec guitar trio on Sunday at 8 p.m. Buy your tickets online at ottawajazzfestival.ca or in person at the event’s box office on 294 Albert St., Suite 602.

Petr cancura’s crossroads with lynn Miles

The man behind jazz fest’s musical lineup will be on the stage himself. Juno-nominated saxophonist Petr Cancura, the event’s programming manager, will play an opening set with his Crossroads band and award-winning folk singer Lynn miles. Their show gets underway Thursday at 7:30 p.m.

David virelles & román Díaz

Afro-Cuban jazz musician David Virelles has been called a leading musician of his genre. His latest album, mbòkó, topped year-end roundups in the New York Times, NPR and the Village Voice. The duo take the stage on Saturday starting at 9 p.m.

Mouse on the KeysWith nothing more than two keyboards and a drum set, this Japanese trio punches out a complex prog-jazz-funk sound. They play on Sunday starting at 6 p.m.

Big names are behind the Fraser Hollins Quartet. Besides heavyweight bassist (and Ottawa native) Fraser Hollins, the band includes Juno Award-winning saxophonist Joel miller, Joni mitchell pianist-backer Jon Cowherd and renowned drummer Brian Blade, who has recorded with Bob Dylan. Catch them on Friday at 9 p.m.

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Media coverage for the TD Ottawa Winter Jazz Fest came from the Ottawa Citizen, Metro News Ottawa, Ottawa Life, Ottawa Sun, CBC.








































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