Westfest: Almost Here

June 10-12, 2011

Westboro Village/Richmond Road

 

Ottawa's coolest street party kicks off Friday, June 10, 2011. Headliner Bif Naked shares the stage with a supremely talented line-up of Canadian musicians.

 

CBC's Lucy van Oldenbarneveld, Alan Neal, Laurence Wall and Amanda Putz will be at Westfest to help celebrate the festival's eight years in the community.

 

Westfest's Domicile Main Stage is located in the community green space near Kirkwood Avenue and Byron Avenue.

 

The naked truth: Westfest highlights and factoids

• it's free
• Westfest begins with the annual Westfest TAM TAM Friday night
• also Friday, Qaggiq, featuring some of today's hottest Inuit acts
• artists include The Johnnys, Hexes & Ohs, Lucie Idlout, M.O. (Eskimocentricity)
• Ottawa favourite The Mighty Popo closes out Westfest Sunday night
• more than 100,000 people attend Westfest every year
• Westfest fills 14 city blocks along Richmond Road with music, performance art, children's entertainment, buskers, street performers, and much more
• Kids' CBC Super Why and Bo on the Go will be there
  
• it's free