Ottawa Bluesfest Features KISS, OLP, STP

04/22/09 11:43am

by Kate Harper (CHARTattack)

KISS, Our Lady Peace, Stone Temple Pilots, Crystal Castles, Blue Rodeo, Jeff Beck, Sam Roberts Band, Styx, Girl Talk, Ani DiFranco, Ludacris, Steve Earle, K.D. Lang and Neko Case are among the artists who'll play July's Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest.

The festival will return to six stages on LeBreton Flats from July 8 to 19. Tickets go on sale on Saturday at 10 a.m. through capitaltickets.ca, Compact Music at 785A Bank St. and 190 Bank St. and all Sports Experts locations. They'll also be available at the Rideau Centre as of Tuesday.

You can buy day passes for $35, weekend passes for $99 and full festival passes for $225. More information is available on the Bluesfest website.

Bluesfest was the world's seventh largest music festival as of last year, according to Billboard.com, and the Ottawa Citizen newspaper reports that its talent budget is $4 million.

Here are the acts playing Ottawa Bluesfest so far:

Alan Parsons Live Project
All Nations Gospel Choir
The Allrights
Amanda Rheaume
Amos The Transparent
Ana Miura
Anders Drerup
Andrew Vincent
Ani DiFranco
Arkells
The Balconies
Beast
Becky Abbott
Ben Harper And Relentless7
Blue King Brown
Blue Rodeo
Bob Corritore
Brian Setzer Orchestra
Brock Zeman
Brothers Chaffey
Buckwheat Zydeco
C.R. Avery with the Sojourners
Cake
Cedric Burnside And Lightnin' Malcolm
Chris Smither
The Church
City Of A Hundred Spires
Clem Snide
Coeur De Pirate
Colin Linden
Cotton Jones
Craig Horton
Crystal Castles
Curumin
Daddy Mack Blues Band
Dave Alvin And The Guilty Women
Dave Mason
David Lindley
David Maxwell
The Deep Dark Woods
Deer Tick
DeVotchKa
Die Mannequin
Diunna Greenleaf & Blue Mercy
Divine Brown
The Dodos
Downstone Rhythm
Doyle Bramhall
Drew Nelson Band
Drive-By Truckers
The Duhks
Eden Brent
Eppiphane
Eric Lindell
Ernie Hawkins
Estelle
Femi Kuti & The Positive Force
Flecton Big Sky
Freddie Roulette
Funktagon
Girl Talk
Good2Go
Gunsmoke
Handsome Furs
The Heavy
Henry Butler
Hey Rosetta!
Hollerado
Holy Fuck
Homemade Jamz' Blues Band
Hoodlum
Hubert Sumlin
The Hundreds And Thousands
Iron & Wine
Israel & New Breed
Jackson Browne
James Cohen Caravan
Jeff Beck
Jeff Lang
Jeff Rogers
Jenn Grant
Jennifer Warnes
Jesse Cook
Jill Barber
Joe Cocker
Joe Pug
Joe Louis Walker
John Allaire
John Vanderslice
Jon Creeden
JW Jones Band with Little Charlie Baty
K.D. Lang
Ken Workman & The Union
King Sunny Ade & His African Beats
Kingdom Shore
KISS
Kyrie Kristmanson
Land Of Talk
Larry Garner
Leif Vollebekk
Lee Harvey Osmond
Les Claypool
Library Voices
Lindsay Ferguson
Live
Loreen McKennitt
Los Lonely Boys
Loudlove
Louisiana Red
The Low Anthem
Lucas Haneman
Ludacris
M83
Marc Charron
Marie-Josee Houle
Matisyahu
Matt Andersen
Meredith Luce
Mick Taylor
Mishka
Monkey Junk
Moreland And Arbuckle
The National
Neko Case
New Mastersounds
Newworldson
Okkervil River
Ornette Coleman
Oumou Sangare
Our Lady Peace
Paolo Nutini
Papa Mali
Papa San
Peter Voith Trio
Philip Sayce
Politique
Poorfolk
Punch Brothers featuring Chris Thile
Rachel Yamagata
The Rebel Year
Reggie Young & Gospel Park
Reverend Billy Wirtz
Rhythm Council
Rick Fines
The Road Hammers
The Roll Models
Roomful Of Blues
Ryan Shaw
Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women
Sam Roberts Band
Sedatives
Sergent Garcia
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
Shemekia Copeland
Shiloh
Silver Creek
Sista Monica
Skydiggers
The Soul Of John Black
Spam Allstars
Spencer Davis
Steve Earle
Steve Marriner
Steve Poltz
The Stills
Stone Temple Pilots
Styx
Sugar Blue
Sunparlour Players
Tara Holloway
That 1 Guy
Thunderheist
TJ Wheeler
Toots & The Maytals
Treasa Levasseur
Tympanic
United Steel Workers Of Montreal
Van Der Graff Generator
Voices Of Praise
Watters Brothers
Xavier Rudd
The Yardbirds
Zac Harmon
The Zombies