Friday April 13+14 – head over to the Mercury lounge for a weekend tribute to Fela Kuti, Nigerian musician and activist. Prepare to dance…. a lot! Saturday features the stylings of the OFC Jazz Band and members of the local drum community performing tunes from the Fela repertoire. Both evenings are fundraisers to support [...]

Ukulele madness is upon us ladies and gentlemen. Due to popular demand we have added another 4 week beginner class with Joel Jaques, starting on Tuesday March 6, 7-8pm. Get in early because these things are filling up fast!

  Join local award winning and Juno nominated guitar legend Tony D. for a practical discussion of post war blues guitar players, their influences, and a whole slew of their turnaround tricks, and signature solos. The class is a loose discussion-guitar-in-hand type class based around the stylings of Hubert Sumlin, Magic Sam, Jimmy Rogers and [...]

This one is for those of you who want to work on the basics of stick control in a group setting. The required book is, you guessed it, “Stick Control”, by George Lawrence Stone.  This book has been the bible for most of the great drummers of world (so many in fact that there literally [...]

The Ottawa Folklore Centre is honoured to have the legendary Roddy Ellias join our teaching staff this February 2012! Roddy is the proverbial “teacher of teachers”, and it’s difficult to find anyone in the guitar and music education business in Canada who hasn’t sat down for lessons with this fine musician, or been influenced by [...]

Join us on Saturday, March 24, 2:30-4:30 for an open tunings exploration with one of Canada’s finest roots-focused guitar players, Michael Jerome Browne. Whether he’s gliding a slide across his national guitar, pulling his bow over the fiddle strings to play a lively Cajun waltz, or frailing away on his gourd banjo Michael’s passion and virtuosity always [...]