2026 Ottawa Bluesfest — Saturday, July 11

Saturday, July 11, 2026 Lineup

Daily lineup at LeBreton Flats. Headliner: HARDY on RBC Stage.

RBC Stage

6:00 pm — Aspects

Aspects has been rocking and making music on his guitar for over 20 years now.   Playing blues/soul/hip-hop/jazz on the guitar. He is one of the most rounded musicians around. Has rocked around the world and made music with Grammy award winners and all kinds of legends from the likes of Wyclef, Wu Tang, Jack Johnson, Anderson Paaks band The Free Nationals and countless more .

7:30 pm — BigXthaPlug

9:30 pm — HARDY 🎤 headliner

Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Ottawa Stage

6:15 pm — Kat Pereira

Kat Pereira is a Montreal-based multi-instrumentalist and synesthete. Known for her work with Alfa Rococo, Eli Rose, Alex Nevsky, Laura Niquay, and others, she steps into the spotlight with a luminous, maximalist alt–electro-pop sound inspired by Erykah Badu and Hiatus Kaiyote. A Les Francouvertes finalist, she blends poetic depth and catchy melodies to explore identity, feminism, and colonialism.

7:45 pm — Luna Li

For the Korean-Canadian multi-instrumentalist songwriter, composer, and producer Hannah Bussiere Kim, the universe of Luna Li is hyper lush and inclusive by design. A blend of indie rock and psych, Luna Li is the sound of an everyday symphony. Li’s self-recorded instrumental interludes known as “jams” — video snippets of her constructing beats piecemeal — went viral many times over, racking up 100+ million streams and producing a fiercely loyal following. She has since gone on to open for Japanese Breakfast, beabadoobee, The Marias, Wolf Alice, No Vacation and more.

9:20 pm — Patrick Watson 🎤 headliner

Patrick Watson composes, performs, and records his albums with his long-time bandmate and collaborator and multi-instrumentalists Mishka Stein and Olivier Fairfield. The Canadian artist reached gold and platinum status in over multiple countries (including five certified gold albums in Canada), and his shows sell out around the world. Over the course of his career, Patrick has retained the uncanny ability to coexist in mainstream pop-culture spaces and on the avant-garde fringes. Patrick’s songs have been featured in primetime crowd-pleasers like Grey’s

Anatomy and This Is Us, as well as in multiple arthouse films from Denis Villeneuve (Polytechnique), Wim Wenders (Perfect Days) ,and Philippe Falardeau (C’est pas moi, je le jure!) and more. He’s an artist who’s as comfortable performing impromptu pop-up shows on the train tracks in a Quebec mining town as he is leading the BBC Orchestra at London’s prestigious Barbican. He’s an in-demand composer with over 15 film scores under his belt. He was awarded the prestigious inaugural Impact Award at the 2024 Canadian Sync Awards. Watson’s viral single "Je te laisserai des mots" became the first French song to accumulate 1 billion streams on Spotify.

But whether you discovered Patrick Watson through your local indie record shop, a movie soundtrack, a social-media video, a European music festival, his hit collaboration with Cinematic Orchestra (2007’s “To Build a Home”), or through his appearance alongside Patti Smith and Michael Stipe at the 2021 Pathway to Paris all-star benefit concert, his music has a similar effect on all who enter his kaleidoscopic sound-world. The songs of Patrick Watson transform your everyday surroundings into your own imaginary wonderland, translating stress and sorrow into joy, and helping you find peace within the chaos of modern life.

LeBreton Stage

5:45 pm — Mikhail Laxton

7:00 pm — Ron Artis II

8:15 pm — cleopatrick 🎤 headliner

Barney Danson Theatre

6:30 pm — Tiny Horse

8:00 pm — Mo Kenney

9:30 pm — Ron Artis II 🎤 headliner

Spin Stage

6:00 pm — DJ Mace

The Crazy Horse Saloon

5:30 pm — DJ Kwame