Journey, Lady Gaga, Blake Shelton Headline The Bluesfest, Ottawa’s Biggest Music Festival

Posted on March 26, 2014

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Rock band Journey, Lady Gaga, and Blake Shelton are among the brilliant artists who would be performing on July 3 to 13, 2014 at the Ottawa Bluesfest (RBC Bluesfest), the biggest music festival in Canada since 1994.

Journey would headline the performance on July 4. Other performers on that date are Zedd, Darius Rucker, Honey Island Swamp Band, Bonobo, and Jeff Tweedy, while Lady Gaga and Blake Shelton would perform on July 3 and July 5, 2014. The venue would be at the Lebreton Flats & the War Museum.

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Journey-in-Ottawa-Bluesfest-2014, Image credit: ottawabluesfest.ca

Journey with lead singer Arnel Pineda would also be on their 2014 Live Tour across the US starting May 15 in Chula Vista California and would end on August 2, 2014 in Irvine, California.

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Arnel Pineda, Image credit: Arnel/Facebook

Other headliners are The Killer, Queens of the Stone Age, Lady Antebellum, Third Eye Blind, Snoop Dogg, Zedd, and The Band Perry.

Ottawa’s Bluesfest has been an annual festival with various, great performers converging to entertain the audience. This year is the 20th anniversary, and a crowd of more than 300,000 people are expected to attend as the festival grew more popular through the years.

As released by Ottawa Bluesfest’s site and Ottawastart.com, this is the complete list of confirmed performers to date arranged in alphabetical order. The line-up is subject to change and the list will be updated on April.

Action Bronson
Adventure Club
AJ Ghent Band
Andrew Bird
AWOLNATION
BADBADNOTGOOD
Barenaked Ladies
Billy Gibson
Black Joe Lewis
Blake Shelton
Blondie
Bombino
Bonobo
Brett Dennen
Charli XcX
Childish Gambino
Collective Soul
Cypress Hill
Danny Brown
Darius Rucker
Darrell Nulisch
Dave Mason’s Traffic Jam
David Maxwell
David Nail
Deer Tick
Deltron 3030
Don Felder
Dr. Hook feat. Ray Sawyer
Drive By Truckers
Elvin Bishop
Foreigner
Gareth Emery
Gary Clark Jr.
Goddo
Gogol Bordello
Harper and Midwest Kind
Honey Island Swamp Band
Jacques Greene
Jake Bugg
Jeff Tweedy
Jenny Lewis
JJ Grey & Mofro
Joe Louis Walker
John Mayall
John Németh & The Bo-Keys featuring Percy Wiggins
Johnny Nicholas
Journey
July Talk
Lady Antebellum
Lady Gaga
Langhorne Slim
Little Freddie King
Long Shen Dao
Long Tall Deb
Lord Huron
Lucius
Mac DeMarco
Matt Andersen
Moist
No BS! Brass Band
Noah Gundersen
Paper Kites
Paul Cebar
Phantogram
Pink Mountaintops
Pokey Lafarge
Procol Harum with the NAC Symphony Orchestra
Queens of the Stone Age
RL Grime
Royal Canoe
Ryan Hemsworth
Sam Hunt
Sam Roberts Band
Selwyn Birchwood
Shane Dwight
Shantel
Shovels & Rope
Snoop Dogg
St. Vincent
STYX
Sugar Ray & the Bluetones
Tegan and Sara
The Band Perry
The Claudettes
the Creator
The Iguanas
The Killers
The London Souls
The Mavericks
The Texas Horns
Third Eye Blind
Thornetta Davis
Tift Merritt
Tim Hicks
Tokyo Police Club
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
Tyler
USS
Vintage Trouble
Violent Femmes
Young Rival
Young the Giant
Yung Lean
Zedd

Tickets will start selling on March 27 at 10 am. You can visit the Ottawa Bluesfest website for more information.