Sunday at Bluesfest!

Sunday afternoon once again found us at Bluesfest! Man what a HOT day. Luckly we found some shade to sit in and enjoy the show. We showed up just in time to see Omar and the Howlers take the stage. I saw him last year at Bluesfest and he was just as good this year as he was last year. His show was followed up by classic blues artist Carl Weathersby. Weathersby put on a great show in his trademark orange suit. My only complaint was his set was too short! An interesting fact that I didn’t know was that between his last show in Ottawa (in 2000 I think) and this show he has suffered a stroke and was told he would never play the blues again. Thank god they were wrong!
After Weathersby’s show WC Clark took the stage and kept the blues coming for the crowd. WC Clark played an awesome set of blues music.
Tracy and I decided to take a break after WC Clarks show and returned later in the evening to see K-O’s. We didn’t realize that he would only be doing a hardcore rap concert, which neither Tracy nor I like. After about 4 songs we wandered over to the Grassroots Stage and listened to the Neville Brothers. Their area was so packed that they couldn’t let anymore people into the drinking area. The non-drinking area was not as full due in large part to the fact you couldn’t really see the stage. The Neville Brothers were putting on a great show, and if we could have seen the stage and we might have stuck around for more than a couple of songs.
We then checked out the Black Sheep Stage and listened to Do Make Say Think perform a few songs. This is a really neat band that I would encourage anyone to check out. They are all over the place musically with a violist, a couple band members on various horns, as well as band members on acoustic guitar, electric guitar and base guitar, not to mention the drummer. There wasn’t any vocals, just mostly instrumental music. It all comes together in a very interesting and surprisingly entertaining package. If they are back at Bluesfest next year I’ll likely go check out an entire show.
Before we left for the night we stoped by the Acoustic Days/Cuban Nights stage and listened to a bit of the Havana Ensemble (they are on stage most nights at Bluesfest) which was quite good and we plan to go back again some evening and listen to more.