Ottawa Blues Society

The OBS will hold it's Annual General Meeting on Saturday, April 02, 2022, at the Overflow Brewing Company (2477 Kaladar Avenue, Ottawa) at 12 P.M. 

The OBS is a proud sponsor of this event in support of youth mental health at the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre.

Ottawa Blues For Youth 2021 features musicians: Spencer Scharf, The Blind & The Beautuful and The Jesse Greene…

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The OBS is sponsoring the BASS Player of the Year Award tonight.

Tune in tonight!

The Annual Maple Blues Awards will be held virtually this year over four Mondays in February.

The broadcasts will air on the Toronto Blues Society's Facebook page and their YouTube channel.

We have just received word that the 2021 International Blues Challenge in Memphis has been cancelled.

Therefore, we will not be holding our local 'Road to Memphis' challenge this year.

Hopefully, we can come back strong in 2021 and be…

The OBS has been working hard on a project to design and construct a BLUES related non-medical mask for its membership. (face covering)

Based on medical reports, non-medical masks are an important part of keeping safe when social distancing is…

The OBS is holding weekly draws, where members can win cool prizes.

If you would like to become a member and help us Keep The BLUES Alive, please click on the link below.

https://www.ottawabluessociety.com/membership

Peace & Blues!

Attention - Blues Musicians

The deadline to register for this years challenge is Wednesday April 1/20 - 11:59 p.m. EST

The qualifying rounds are Wednesday April 22, 29 and the final Saturday May 9.

The entire event is being held…

A new edition to the Maple Blues Awards program is the inaugural Sapphire Video Award. Sapphire has one single category and both live performance and staged production/interpretive videos were excepted.

The winner of the Sapphire Video Award was Miss Emily…

The fog is starting to lift from a great week in Memphis where our Ottawa bands put on a great showing at the 36th Annual International Blues Challenge.

Megan Laurence and Lucas Haneman advanced to the semi finals in the…