Ottawa Grassroots Festival 2025
13th Annual Festival
Join us for this year’s Festival
April 24-27, 2025
First Unitarian Congress
30 Cleary Avenue, Ottawa
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Mia Kelly Plays the Ottawa Grassroots Festival April 21, 2023
If you haven’t heard of Mia Kelly yet, we won’t hold that against you, but let this be your warning! She is playing at the Ottawa Grassroots Festival April 21, 2023 and you won’t want to miss this 20-year-old phenomenal performer. The day couldn’t be more appropriate...
Long-time Ottawa musician, Graham Lindsey, mentors Fern and Willow Marwood, creating their Trio, The Broken Bridges
If you are a fan of Celtic music, then The Broken Bridges is the trio for you! Composed of sisters Fern (20) and Willow (16) Marwood and Graham Lindsey, they play fiddles, banjo and guitar and sometimes they even sing. Their music is infectious and Willow has even...
The Band Polky is Made Up of Three Polish Women and Three Canadian Men
Polky means “Polish women'' and this group is made up of three of them. Ewelina Ferenc, is a singer, Ala Stasuik is a dancer and Marta Solek is a multi-instrumentalist. They met through mutual friends in Toronto after immigrating from Poland in 2017/18. Marta is...
About OGF
The Ottawa Grassroots Festival is a non-profit, community-based, volunteer-run organization dedicated to cultivating community at the local level through a vibrant annual festival of concerts and participatory workshops.
The Festival will be LIVE at the FIRST UNITARIAN CONGREGATION of OTTAWA at 30 Cleary Avenue, Ottawa ON K2A 4A1 and IRENE’S PUB at 885 Bank St.
All daytime performances and workshops are FREE!
Kids 15 and under are admitted free to evening concerts if they are accompanied by a ticket holding adult.
If you have a disability and require the assistance of a support person, you may request a free ticket for your support person with the purchase of your ticket.