Venue:

Confederation Park, Ottawa, ON

Date: 28/06/2022

Ottawa has a very challenging climate. Temperatures are well below zero for what seems like half the year followed by very hot and humid summers with quite a few thunderstorms. Summer has now officially arrived and we have entered festival season, where the city takes full advantage of the warm weather while it lasts. Naturally these festivals have not taken place for 3 years and finally the 2022 season kicked off with the “Jazz” festival, the “Blues” festival starts next week and then there is the “Folk” festival coming in early September. There are also classical concerts around town over the summer. The names of the festivals do not mean a lot but there will be representations of relevant genres at each of them along with many other artists who fit into other categories. Lucinda Williams and Emmylou Harris might be better suited to the Folk festival, but I guess they were available now so the Jazz festival it is! As Emmylou remarked, “we don’t play much jazz but we can do bluegrass”.

So a lovely not too warm night in Confederation Park downtown, you couldn’t really get any closer to the … Continue reading Emmylou Harris and Lucinda Williams