I had always hoped that this would transpire one day, but I never suspected it would happen this soon or this easily.
The sprawlingly enormous Ottawa Blues Festival will be starting soon (July 8th, to be precise), and there’s a heck of a lot of talent lined up. There’s some I don’t quite understand as inclusions at a blues festival, like KISS and Ice Cube, but most of the dozens of performers are tangentially related to the field.
There’ll be a lot of folks there that I want to see. Jeff Beck. Joe Cocker. The gypsy rock band DeVotchKa (most famous for their work on the score for Little Miss Sunshine). Loreena McKennitt. The Brian Setzer Orchestra. Lots more besides. Unfortunately, however, they’re spread out over a number of days, and I am only a poor impecunious student. It’s about $40 just to attend one day, but there are discounts the more days you buy. A full pass is around $225, which is pretty good considering the thing runs from the 8th to the 19th, but I don’t want to see all of it, don’t want to spend over a week at the same concert, and certainly don’t intend to still be in town by the 18th anyway.
So I bought a ticket for one day – Sunday, July 12th. Joe Cocker plays that day – nice! So does noted English hip-hop singer Estelle – fair enough. But really it’s just a lot of stuff I’ve never heard of.
Except for at 7:30PM, when – the point of this post – Neko Case takes the stage.
Regular readers will know how pleased I am that this should be so.
