Category: Entertainment & Events
Local choir to participate in international military tattoo
(Press release from the Canadian Military Wives Choir) The Canadian Military Wives Choir (CMWC) are Hamilton bound! The choir is honored to have been invited to participate in the Canadian…
Big summer craft show planned for old Hazeldean Target location
(via OttawaStart.com) Two local show organizers, Creative Creations Events (Carleton Place) and the OVCC (Ottawa) have joined forces to create one of the largest summer craft shows the city has…
Ribfest planned for Walter Baker Park in Kanata this September
Walter Baker Park in Kanata will host Ribfest from September 10-13, 2015. (Note the change of dates – originally it was scheduled for September 17-20.) The event is being organized by…
NEW: Young Artist of the Month Contest
CALLING ALL STITTSVILLE ARTISTS! If you’re 14 years of age or younger, we want to invite you to enter our Young Artist of the Month contest. This month’s theme is…
Celtic harp duo Acacia Lyra are at Gaia Java this week
Acacia Lyra is not your average harp and voice duo. Janine Dudding and Susan Sweeney Hermon sing in English, French, Spanish and Gaelic, accompanying themselves on Celtic harps and guitars.…
Stittsville Public School’s grade six students present Charlie Brown musical
(Article by Taylor and Rachel, grade six students at Stittsville Public School.) Since the end of December, the grade six students of Stittsville Public School have been working very hard to…
Betty Ann Bryanton is at Gaia Java on May 15
Betty Ann began singing as a young girl in the church choir in her hometown in PEI. At Bishop’s University, she studied Business and also did a voice minor. She’s…
Ride for Disabled Vets roars through Stittsville
Hundreds of motorcycles left Stittsville today on a 150 kilometre charity ride in support of disabled war veterans.
Karters’ Korner to host inaugural go-kart grand prix in July
(Press release from the Capital Karting Grand Prix organizers.) Stittsville’s Karters’ Korner will host the inaugural Capital Karting Grand Prix (CKGP) on July 25-26, 2015. Go-kart racers from Ontario, Québec…
Songwriter Howie Hooper at Gaia Java on May 8
Howie has walked his own path to being recognized as a crafter of song. Starting as a performing musician (bassist) in local bands in Ottawa at 13 years of age,…
Westwind students paint the town red, blue, yellow, green, pink and more
Pablo Picasso is famous for saying that it took him a lifetime to learn to paint like a four year old. If only he could have seen the works of…
Terry McLeish brings folk, rock and blues to Gaia Java this Friday
I really enjoyed listening to the songs Terry sent me when we started discussing if he would come and play in the shop. Wrapped in a very professional delivery he…
Cabotto’s hosts Opera Night on April 30
(Above: Vince Pucci and his son Perry outside of Cabotto’s on Hazeldean Road.) Cabotto’s restaurant is hosting their first “Night at the Opera” on Thursday, April 30 featuring Ottawa tenor Alain Paquette. “We’ve…
Carol Tieu with Stéphane Klander play Gaia Java on April 24
A love of music has recently brought Carol Tieu, once a blues singer, and Stéphane Klander, a jazz guitarist, back together again after a few years hiatus. Still in the…
The West Ottawa Ladies Chorus: Together they make music
(Press release from the West Ottawa Ladies Chorus) What happens when women from all walks of life get together? They sing. Nurses, teachers, sales personnel, lay ministers and others blend…