Scary Bear Soundtrack

Someone who has been to most—if not all—of these shows is Ottawa music photographer/maverick Ming Wu, whose blog photogmusic.com has published at least 150 concert reviews at Pressed alone.

We caught up with multi-instrumentalist Gloria Guns to see how she and her band members (Kevin, Maggie, Dannik and Trevor) are spending their time at home now that their plans have come to a sudden stop.

Now that you’ve had a chance to catch your breath after the first four days of Bluesfest, it’s time to prepare to dive headfirst into another six days of great music. Tuesday will ease you back into it, with a lighter schedule featuring one fewer venue.

We’ve arrived at this final weekend in March and what is, hopefully, the season’s final snowfall.

A staggered schedule, the close concentration of venues, and short set-times are meant to make seeing bands easy. MEGAPHONO unfolds from February 7–9, 2019.

The Apt613 Screening Party is at Arts Court Theatre on Friday November 30. All event proceeds will fund 613TV productions in 2019.

We’re sitting on a ton of new content to be released in the coming weeks and months. Watch this space for new episodes, live music sessions, podcasts and more.

Williams talks about his journey from England to Canada and the career path that has brought him to Ottawa.

Apt613 has a unique take on the “best” albums of 2016. We’ve looked to the charts published by CHUO 89.1 FM to see which records made the most weekly appearances.

In this week’s episode, we take a trip back down memory lane by playing some of Livia’s favourite songs from artists featured on the show over the past 6 months.

The program includes 11 screenings of international feature-length films, Ottawa premieres, and world premieres by Canadian artists. An awards ceremony closes the festival on Sunday evening, December 4.

This week, host Livia Belcea is joined by Gloria Guns, the front-person of Scary Bear Soundtrack – a local band performing a free show on June 9, 2016 at the Saw Gallery Summer Opening Party in partnership with the National Campus Community Radio Conference. Following that, Livia shares a short interview with Captain Patches from Pirate Adventures […]