It's 2010 - where's my blues music?

[robkelk]

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2 ... ineup.html]The Ottawa Bluesfest announced their lineup today.

Santana?

Matthew Good??

Joan Jett???

Iron Maiden, for Belldandy's sake???

Out of sixteen headline acts, I don't recognize any of them as blues acts.

Maybe I should start up a blues festival in Ottawa. We don't seem to have one this year...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Bob Schroeck]

No, no, no, the idea is not to play the blues, it's to make you feel the blues.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[Rod.H]

There are some blues acts listed, but then there's those acts whose styles are descendants of blues. Therefore you're looking at a general music festival rather than a specalised one. Just needs some more jazz, ska, punk & big band to make it so.

[robkelk]

We've got a perfectly good http://ottawajazzfestival.com/]jazz festival, not to mention a http://www.chamberfest.com/dotnetnuke/]chamber music festival, a http://www.capitalslam.com/]slam competition, and a http://www.ottawafringe.com/]fringe festival, amongst http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_at ... her_Events]others. It's just the blues festival that's become a general-music festival...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012