Arboretum Arts Festival, Ottawa’s boutique multi-disciplinary arts festival, is thrilled to announce our 2013 line-up and initial details at Raw Sugar Cafe. Entering its 2nd year, Arboretum is inspired by progressive festivals around the world, and aims to provide a snapshot of Ottawa’s cultural renaissance. Expanding to two days this year, musical highlights include inaugural Polaris-award winner Owen Pallett,

Arboretum Arts Festival + Ottawa Explosion + Wavelength Toronto Present: Holy Smokes! Arboretum Arts Festival and Ottawa Explosion have teamed up with Wavelength, Toronto’s longest-running and most influential underground music forum, to bring you a night of genre-torching live music and an incendiary party at Ottawa’s historical St. Alban’s Church in the downtown core. On Friday June 21 as part of Ottawa Explosion W

One-man-band Shotgun Jimmie barrels into Ottawa on Friday for his record release show at Raw Sugar Café. An all-Canadian career musician, Jimmie is one of the hardest-working, well-travelled guys we know.  After touring in support of his last release, the Polaris Prize nominated Transistor Sister, Jimmie hunkered down in rural Manitoba, with a guitar and a four-track, to carve out new adventure. This one’s call