What we’re about
Welcome to Note Lovers - Live Music Listening in Ottawa!
We like small venues where we can listen to great music and also chat together, get to know each other, and meet the musicians too. Live Jazz, Blues, and World/ International music mostly. Tango and Flamenco when we can find it. A little Bluegrass, R&B, Instrumental, Folk, Soul, Rock, Musicals, and occasionally Classical. Also, other stuff that looks like a good time.
If you're coming to a show, please say hello and sit with the group. We almost always book venues with open seating so we can bunch together. We'll be looking for you because we want to meet you! For this reason, make sure that your Meetup profile shows your portrait clearly. We're here to make friends...with you!
Also, please RSVP to your events, and change your RSVP to "not coming" if you change your mind. Buy tickets in advance wherever possible because great shows fill up.
Good times!
Carolyn
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- Ottawa Jazz Orchestra: Hot Like Harry at Fourth Stage NAC!NAC 1 Elgin Street Fourth stage, Ottawa , ON
Hey Note Lovers, it's Carolyn here. Come join us for Hot Like Harry- Ottawa Jazz Orchestra at the Fourth Stage!
The Ottawa Jazz Orchestra turns up the heat with a tribute to the great Harry James performed by an 18-piece big band featuring trumpeter Ed Lister and vocalist Diane Nalini. They’ll perform some of the popular tunes made famous by Harry James; rarely-heard, progressive bebop-era arrangements written for the Harry James band by Count Basie arrangers Neal Hefti and Thad Jones; and songs sung with the Harry James band by vocalists including Rosemary Clooney, Kitty Kallen, and Helen Forrest. The band will be cooking with high heat for this one!
Date: Saturday Dec 14, 2024
Time: Show up at 7:30. Be on time to sit with the group! Music is 8:00pm – 10:30 with an intermission.Location: Fourth Stage. NAC -National Arts Centre 1 Elgin St, Ottawa, ON K1P 5W1
Tickets : 25$. BUY YOUR TICKET HERE! the 4pm matinee is sold out. Just buy a ticket for the 8pm evening show. It will sell out too.
Show up at 7:30pm and I’ll wait for you until 7:40 before going in myself. It’s a lovely venue with tables for four. We’ll get a few of those in a bunch and enjoy a drink before the performance.
Photo of me below and I'll update it with what I'll wear closer to the date. Please be sure that your Meetup profile has your portrait photo because then we'll be looking for you also. Please RSVP to this meetup group if you're coming and cancel your RSVP if you change your mind.
Good times!
- Sunday morning groovy classical instruments and croissants at Salle La Basoche!Cabaret La Basoche , Gatineau , QC
Hey Note Lovers, it's Carolyn here. Come join us for Sunday morning groovy classical instruments and croissants at Salle La Basoche!
This is the 5th of a lovely series of performances by local classical musicians. You’ll recognize some and be happy to meet the rest at a warm, friendly, croissant-and-coffee Sunday morning performance. Come for the coffee, croissant, company and music. The continental breakfast is included in your ticket.
Three classical musicians share their love for chamber music. Voice, theorbo (many stringed curved-back lute thing) and voila de gamba (7 stringed cello thing) come together to explore a most intimate repertoire. (my translation, lol)
image: detail Violin and Guitar Juan Gris, oil on canvas 1913
Classical works on today’s program: Sébastien Le Camus, Marin Marais et MarcAntoine Charpentier
Date: Sunday Dec 15th, 2024
Time: Show up at 10am for coffee and the music is 11-12.
Location: Centre culturel du Vieux-Aylmer, 120 rue Principale, Gatineau, Québec, Canada, J9H3M3. (It’s a 25 minute beautiful drive from my house, and worth the journey of course).
Tickets : main info link: TICKETS AND INFO HERE
Option 1: at the door $25 includes brunch/ coffee &croissants. You can call Laurie at 819-771-6454 so she holds you a spot (safer) if you like or just show up. CONTACT INFO
Option 2: I bought the whole series and it works out to 14$ a ticket including the brunch. (what else were you doing Sunday morning?) SERIES INFO HOW TO etransfer to purchase the series HERE. MORE INFO I will post them on this Meetup one at a time. You get 16 “any-day” tickets and there are 14 shows. You can bring 16 people to the first show or go to every one of the concerts with two spares for a friend, or whatever. If you’re not coming to a show, or you’re bringing 16 people to one show, it is courteous to let Laurie know by calling. The venue holds 254 in Gatineau. Some of the shows in Aylmer hold 130 so it’s polite to let her know if you can.
Photo of me below to make it easy for you to find me and I'll update it with what I'll wear closer to the date. *please be sure that your Meetup profile has your portrait photo because then we'll be looking for you also.
Please RSVP to this meetup group if you're coming and cancel your RSVP if you change your mind.
Good times!
- Chamber Quartet Quatuor Odin, coffee & croissants at Salle Jean-Despréz!Salle Jean-Desprez located, inside Maison du Citoyen (Gatineau City Hall) , Gatineau, QC
Hey Note Lovers, it's Carolyn here. Come join us for a Chamber Quartet, coffee & croissants at Salle Jean-Despréz!
This is the 6th of a lovely series of performances by local classical musicians. You’ll recognise some and be happy to meet the rest at a warm, friendly, croissant-and-coffee Sunday morning performance. Come for the coffee, croissant, company and music. The continental breakfast is included in your ticket.
On the Program today: Haydn, Mozart, Bisson, Meyer et Dvorak
image: Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) was nearly as prolific as Monet in his creation of winter scenes, producing more than one hundred canvases in which snow, or variants such as hoarfrost, white frost, or ice, play a major role in the composition. Pissarro began his painting of effets de neige in the winter of 1868-69 and continued to work on the complex issues of representing snow on canvas with oil paint until the end of his life. oil on canvas 1894. info here and here
Date: Sunday Jan 12, 2024
Time: Show up at 10am for coffee and conversation, the music is 11-12.
Location: Gatineau City Hall, Salle Jean-Despréz, Maison du Citoyen, Address: 25 Laurier St, Gatineau, Quebec J8X 3Y9. It’s an 15 minute drive from my house.
Tickets : main info link: INFO HERE
Ticket Option 1: SINGLE DAY at the door $25 or 27 includes tea coffee & croissants. You can call Laurie at 819-771-6454 so she holds you a spot (safer) if you like or just show up. CONTACT LAURIE
Ticket Option 2: I bought the SERIES a few concerts between September to May and it works out to 16$ a ticket including the brunch. (less for student/senior) (e-transfer and she mails your tickets).
What else were you doing Sunday mornings? BUY TICKETS TO SERIES BY e-TRANSFER info HERE
I will post them on this Meetup sort of one at a time. You get 16 “any-day” tickets and there are 14 shows. You can bring 16 people to the first show or go to every one of the concerts with two spares for a friend, or whatever. If you’re not coming to a show, or you’re bringing 16 people to one show, it is courteous to let Laurie know by calling. The venue holds 254 in Gatineau. Some of the shows in Aylmer hold 130 so it’s polite to let her know if you can.
Photo of me below to make it easy for you to find me and I'll update it with what I'll wear closer to the date. *please be sure that your Meetup profile has your portrait photo because then we'll be looking for you also.
Please RSVP to this meetup group if you're coming and cancel your RSVP if you change your mind.
Good times!
- Joshua Hyslop at RedBird Live!Redbird Live, Ottawa, ON
Hey Note Lovers, it's Carolyn here. Come join us for Canadian folk singer-songwriter Joshua Hyslop at the Red Bird Live!
Vancouver based singer-songwriter Joshua Hyslop makes a triumphant return with new album Westward, via Nettwerk.Since emerging with his 2012 full-length debut Where The Mountain Meets The Valley, Joshua Hyslop has accumulated over 293 million streams worldwide, performed over 250 shows spanning North America and Europe, garnered critical acclaim and support throughout the media and industry peers and has carved out an impressive diehard fan base.
Listen to his voice, guitar LISTEN HERE
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Date: Thursday January 23rd, 2025
Time: show up at 7:30 to chat, music 8-10:30pmLocation Red Bird, 1165 Bank Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 3X4
More info: MORE INFOTickets : 28$. It will sell out. Purchase online at BUY YOUR TICKET HERE!
I’ll be there at 7:30 to get a nice seat and you should too. We’ll sit around and chat in a cluster and the music starts at 8. As always, be sure to find me and the group. I’m not sure what I’ll wear but I’ll try to send you a photo of that the week before. (I’m saying hi in the photo below) If your photo is on your profile, I'll be looking for you! Please RSVP to this meetup group if you're coming and cancel your RSVP if you change your mind .
Good times!
