Canada's Biggest Blues Festival presents an outstanding array of the finest blues musicians over two weekends in a spectacular outdoor setting in downtown Ottawa.
Two weekends packed with Blues music!
Hotel Blues Packages including accommodation and festival admission.
Gospel Tent, Acoustic Tent, and the main stage
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Ottawa Bluesfest Mandate and a Brief History of the Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest
Mandate
The mandate of the Ottawa Bluesfest organization is to provide a world-class event—known as the Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest—that showcases local, regional, national and international musicians. The objectives of the Ottawa Bluesfest are:
to maintain one of Canada’s foremost music festivals, in the City of Ottawa;
to support and sustain the growth of emerging and diverse musical genres, including the Blues, World Music, Alternative, Rock, Jazz, Funk, Soul, Rap, Folk, Urban, and other forms of music that develop from time to time;
to produce and present the art of music to the public, including new audiences, and to sustain a vibrant music community for local, regional, and national artists/performers/composers and songwriters;
to provide professional local, regional, and national artists/performers/composers and songwriters with substantial exposure to new audiences;
to provide an educational program within schools in the Ottawa region for the purpose of promoting among students the appreciation of Blues music as an art form and its impact on various genres while advancing and developing the careers of local and regional artists and educators;
to support other charitable organizations, institutions, events or activities where the subject is related to the above objectives.
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