Ottawa Bluesfest is an outdoor music festival that takes place each July in downtown Ottawa. While initially focused on blues, the festival has showcased more mainstream pop and rock acts in recent years. The Bluesfest has become the largest blues festival in Canada, and the second largest in North America.
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Headliners
Festival lineup
- !!!
- 10CC
- A-Trak
- ASAP Rocky
- AWOLNATION
- Adam K
- Akron/Family
- Alan Doyle
- Alice Cooper
- Arkells
- Arty
- BETTYE LEVETTE
- Beirut
- Big Boi
- Big Wreck
- Billy Bragg
- Birthday Girl
- Blitzen Trapper
- Blue Rodeo
- Bright Light Social Hour
- Carly Rae Jepsen
- Chains of Love
- Chali 2NA
- Charles Bradley and His Extraordinaires
- Chromeo
- City and Colour
- Cole
- Conor Oberst
- Cowboy Junkies
- Current Swell
- DJ Illo
- David Gray
- Deep Dark Woods
- Deltron 3030
- Detroit Cobras
- Diplo
- Dirty Projectors
- Down With Webster
- Downchild Blues Band
- Drop The Lime
- Felix Cartal
- Fet. Nat.
- Fevers
- Fishbone
- Freelance Whales
- Good Old War
- Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
- Grimes
- Hey Rosetta!
- Iron Maiden
- John Mellencamp
- K'Naan
- Koan Sound
- LMFAO
- Lauryn Hill
- Loon Choir
- MSTRKRFT
- Marcia Ball
- Mastodon
- Melvins
- Metric
- Monophonics
- Monster Truck
- Mustard Pimp
- Nickelback
- Norah Jones
- Orgone
- Our Lady Peace
- Paul Oakenfold
- Plants and Animals
- Pretty Lights
- Rich Aucoin
- Riot Police
- Sam Roberts Band
- Seal
- Shinedown
- Sierra Leone's Refugee All-Stars
- Skrillex
- Sleigh Bells
- Snoop Dogg
- Sound of Lions
- Sparrows
- Sugar Ray and the Bluetones
- Super Chikan
- Tangerine Dream
- Tedeschi Trucks Band
- Terry Gillespie
- The Dirty Heads
- The Hold Steady
- The Offspring
- The Pack A.D.
- The Peptides
- The Postelles
- The Sheepdogs
- The Strain
- The Trews
- The Weeknd
- The White Wire
- The Wooden Sky
- Thievery Corporation
- Tiga
- Tokimonsta
- Tommy Lee
- Wolfgang Gartner
- Young Empires
- Young the Giant
- Youth Lagoon
- Zeus
- Zoo Legacy
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