On Friday, June 17th 2011, the OFC Jazz Band welcomed the great Toronto bassist Jimmy Amaro for a jazz masterclass. While playing through bebop standards like Someday My Prince Will Come, Have You Met Miss Jones, Summertime, Yardbird Suite, and others, and drawing on examples ranging from Mozart to Country music, Mr Amaro amply demonstrated the [...]

The OFC Jazz band is starting a residency at Alpha Soul Cafe (1015 Wellington St W). The band will perform monthly, on the second Friday of each month. June 10th will be the kick off date. Come on down, enjoy the atmosphere of the café,  and listen to the band play some great tunes. Admission [...]

Ann Downey, a long-time Ottawa musician, started playing on her brother’s banjo at sixteen, and found her way to Appalachian style clawhammer banjo by age twenty. Shortly thereafter, she won first place in an Austin Friends of Traditional Music Old-Time Banjo contest. She enjoys standard old-time banjo tunes, and less standard ones as well (“you [...]

Daniel has been playing music since he was 12 and started as a sax player in school. As he aged, his music taste matured and Daniel moved to the low end, picking up the bass. While attending Carleton University he joined various blues, funk, and rock bands and made is way into Ottawa’s music scene. [...]

Kurt has studied music and composition at Humber College, Carleton University and The University of Ottawa. He has performed at all the major Canadian Music Festivals, with The Angstones, Jivewires and a host of others. Kurts’ preferred styles of teaching include: fingerstyle guitar/bass, Rock and Jazz, from Beginners (9 years old to 90) to Advanced. [...]