Time to get your tickets and start warming up your voice for the 14th Annual Gil’s Hootenanny, Monday, May 1st at 7 pm at 30 Cleary Avenue, the campus of the First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa. Headlining this 14th annual Gil’s Hootenanny is Canadian singer-songwriter Coco Love Alcorn, winner...
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Coco Love Alcorn: “Musical Spark Plug”
Coco Love Alcorn will headline Gil’s Hootenanny 2023, bringing her distinctive performance style to the 14th annual May Day sing-along. Alcorn is a perfect fit for Gil’s Hootenanny with its focus on the collective power of singing together. Last year’s Gil’s Hootenanny headliner James...
Continue reading...What is a Hootenanny?
Gil’s Hootenanny, Ottawa’s annual community singalong, celebrates songs of hope and protest with exuberant audience participation. While not currently in the lexicon of many people, Gil’s Hootenanny is hell-bent on reviving the ‘hootenanny’ for folks of all ages. Gil’s Hootenanny traces its roots...
Continue reading...Coco Love Alcorn to Headline Gil’s Hootenanny 2023
Gil’s Hootenanny 2023 will feature singer-songwriter Coco Love Alcon, who will bring her distinctive performance style to the 14th annual May Day community sing-along celebrating the stories, struggles and victories of working people. Alcorn won the Canadian Folk Music Award...
Continue reading...Gil and Helen Levines’ Legacy: Changing the World Through the Power of Song
When Gil Levine died at 85 in 2009, three words in his obituary, “… plan a hootenanny”, were the beginning of Gil’s Hootenanny, an Ottawa tradition now into its 14th year and getting stronger. Held each year on May Day, this annual celebration of the collective power of song to change the...
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