Mighty Popo (Jacques Murigande) grew up in Burundi hearing contemporary and traditional musicians from East and Central Africa on the street, in clubs and in people’s homes, while radio and recordings played music from the whole African continent and beyond....
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Juno-nominated singer-songwriter Maria Dunn to join Gil’s Hootenanny
“There’s nothing quite so powerful (and fun) as a group of people singing together, especially when those songs express love, joy, empathy and a strong desire to make the world a better, more compassionate, more just, place. I’m greatly looking...
Continue reading...Terry Tufts brings wit and song to Gil’s Hootenanny this May Day in Ottawa
“This type of event Will allow you to vent: And get stuff on your mind off yer chest. And sing out with glee Off colour, off key To all that is getting you pissed!” – Terry Tufts, 2013 We are...
Continue reading...On May 1st, Come Sing With Us!
Please join us for Gil’s Hootenanny, an evening of “Songs of Protest, Songs of Hope,” hosted in Ottawa by the Spirit of Rasputin’s. Every year since his death in 2009, Ottawa’s folk community has honoured the memory Gil Levine, a...
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