Ottawa Bluesfest is an annual outdoor music festival held over the course of a week and a half of July at LeBreton Flats Park in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It debuted in 1994 and steadily grew, moving to its current location in 1999. It has drawn up to 1.2 million attendees across its 10 days, making it Canada's largest music festival. While it still features a good number of Blues artists, it now includes a wide variety of artists representing most popular genres. Bluesfest is a nonprofit charitable organization that organizes musical education initiatives and local musician development programs.
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LeBreton Flats Park
The festival is all ages, 9 and under are free. Blankets, beach towels and collapsible lawn chairs are allowed. The festival is completely cashless.