Canada
Day July 1
Parliament Hill, Major's Hill Park
and Jacques Cartier Park in Hull
Tel: 1-800-465-1867 or (613) 239-5000
Canada's Capital Region celebrates our national holiday with shows, street performers and concerts!
- Join us on Parliament Hill where some of Canada's best artists perform for the entire country.
- The whole family can share in the excitement of the festivities at sites around the Capital Region including Major's Hill Park and Jacques Cartier Park in Hull.
- Don't miss the spectacular fireworks display!
TD
Canada Trust Ottawa International Jazz Festival June 23 - July 3, 2011
Confederation Park
Tel: (613) 241-2633
Fax: (613) 241-5774
Web Site: www.ottawajazzfestival.com
The TD Canada Trust Ottawa International Jazz Festival is one of the National Capital Region's premiere music events. It features the finest jazz musicians from Canada and around the world performing in open air venues and intimate studio spaces where thousands can enjoy world class music.
Cisco
Ottawa Bluesfest July 5 - July 15, 2011
Tel: (613) 247-1188
Fax: (613) 247-2220
Website: http://www.ottawabluesfest.ca
The Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest is an annual outdoor music festival that takes place each July in downtown Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. While ostensibly focused on blues, the festival has increasingly showcased mainstream pop and rock acts in recent years.
HOPE
Volleyball BeachFestJuly 16, 2011
Mooney's Bay Beach
1600 Merivale Road, Suite 205
Nepean, ON K2G 5J8
Tel: (613) 237-1433
Fax: (613) 237-1601
Website: www.hopehelps.com
The world’s largest beach volleyball tournament with as many as 1,000 teams and 10,000 players participating in 5, 000 games is a spectacle in and of itself. But HOPE pumps up the event a few more notches by providing six continuous hours of live entertainment from its main stage featuring prominent headliners drawing in upwards of another 20,000 spectators. Since its inception 23 years ago, the BeachFest has raised more than 5 million in support of over 100 local charities.
Ottawa
International Chamber Music Festival
July 23 - August 5, 2011
Tel: (613) 234-8008
Web Site: www.chamberfest.com
Music at every turn; your favourite composers interpreted with creative new intensity; traditional and fringe alike, performed to the bravos of folk who truly love their song… these are a few of the impressions you’ll take home from Ottawa Chamberfest 2011.
Now in its 18th edition, this year’s two-week international chamber music festival brings together the boldest names in ensemble and solo performance, capped at both ends with the hottest three tickets of the summer concert season.
Join us in Ottawa July 23 to August 5 and live the music.
