Where are the Ottawa heads at?!

[Niplit]

What's up everyone. Just moved to Ottawa from Montreal and I'm struggling to find out if and where the Ottawa jam scene exists. In Montreal it seems there's a million plus one shows and musicians all over, while here I'm struggling to even find a band to play with! So, if anyone's got any info on where I should be looking, PLEASE let me know...oh, and if you need a sick drummer, hit me up for sure. Peace!

[bradm]

If you're a musician in Ottawa looking for bands or people to play with, The Ottawa Musician has some good classified ads.

As for clubs, Mavericks and Cafe Dekcuf (which are run by the same people, and are upstairs/downstairs from each other) host a lot of shows that Ottawa jambands.ca people go to. Babylon is another good club (especially their regular Thursday night band The Souljazz Orchestra).

Shows of interest (to me, as least) in the coming weeks in Ottawa include:

• The Souljazz Orchestra @ Le Petit Chicago in Hull (just over the river) on Saturday, November 4
  
• Peter Elkas with Lindy and Paper Moon @ Zaphod Beeblebrox on Wednesday, Nov. 8
  
• James McKenty And The Spades @ The Pour House (upstairs from The Aulde Dubliner) on Saturday, Nov. 11
  
• Lure @ Zaphod Beeblebrox on Monday, Nov. 13
  
• Mike Filipowitsch (of Burt Neilson Band) solo @ Cafe Dekcuf on Saturday, Nov. 18
  
• Moses Mayes @ Mavericks on Friday, Nov. 24
  
• Mr. Something Something @ The Rainbow, also on Friday, Nov. 24
  
• The John Henrys @ Irene's Pub on Saturday, Nov. 25
  
• Real Gone Daddies with Hungry Freaks (a Zappa tribute band) @ Mavericks on Friday, Dec. 8
  
• David Lauzon @ Swizzles on Sunday, Dec. 17 (early show, probably a 5pm or 6pm start time)
  
• Burt Neilson Band @ Mavericks on Sunday, Dec. 31
  
• nero @ Mavericks with David Lauzon @ Mavericks on Friday, Jan. 12, 2007
  
• nero @ Mavericks with Elbeejay @ Mavericks on Saturday, Jan. 13, 2007
  

As well, this site is a good one for info on the jammy scene in Ottawa. (In fact, a lot of the bands I listed above aren't jambands, even though they share a lot of characteristics with them.)

Aloha,

Brad

Edited October 30, 2006 by Guest
Add BNB and nero shows.

[bradm]

Another good source for shows of interest is the jambase.com Ottawa listings.

Aloha,

Brad

[Dr_Evil_Mouse]

What he said.

As for playing, having just moved to Ottawa a year and a bit ago, I've been enjoying the open-mics at Irene's Pub (885 Bank, in the Glebe) on Saturday afternoons (though I haven't been since mid-summer; I assume they're still going, though). I've also started up an open-mic myself in Manotick on Saturday nights, which have been on hiatus for a couple of weeks but will be starting back up again on Nov. 11; they're lots of fun, and have all sorts of jammy potential.