Category: Emerging

O5EAN (Ocean) is an Ottawa singer, songwriter and perhaps most of all a performer with an acute and even striking sense of style and image. His music videos engage all your senses,…

In this Ottawa Reflections podcast, Christopher Adam speaks with Coach William Davenport at Viva Recording Studios. Coach Davenport, the founder of WillPower, is a 25 year old man who experienced trauma in…

Music has been an important part of 27 year old Donaven Demers’ life for as long as he can remember. He grew up in a home where musical instruments and singing were…

Ethan Orser, known by his artist name Ozone, began to immerse himself in rap, particularly producing it, when he turned 17. Having people around him who encouraged him to freestyle made all…

On a wintry night in January, with black ice coating the pavement, I drove out to the eastern Ontario town of Hawkesbury to meet with Josh Ceasor, known to his audience as…

Devon Brown has spent nearly all of his life in eastern Ontario and mostly in the Cornwall area. He’s a young man who has experienced his fair share of struggle, but who…

Originally from Ireland, twenty-six year old musician Matthew Oliver relocated to Canada right on the threshold of the pandemic – on March 5th, 2020, quite literally one week before everything got locked…

Jay White started producing and recording music in eastern Ontario in 2007 – initially, mostly as a hobby. But beginning in 2014, this passion for working with musicians grew into a profession….

When I arrived at the unassuming redbrick house in Westboro — untouched by cookie-cutter gentrification — David Dino White was drinking coffee on the side porch, at ease on this mild November…

Born in Calgary and raised in Vancouver, photographer Malcolm Shuttleworth moved to the Ottawa area in early 2020, right on the cusp of the pandemic. While Shuttleworth offers a wide spectrum of…