What we’re about
Welcome to Note Lovers - Live Music Listening in Ottawa!
This is a group where we welcome you to join us listening to good music here in town. We love local small venues, the kind of place we can chat together before the show. The kind of place we can meet the musicians. Most of the music is jazz, blues, and folk. But now and then some tango, flamenco, rock and musicals. If you are up on Sunday mornings, we do like a classical collection on the Quebec side so check that out. Festivals in summer.
Please buy tickets early when you want to see a show. Small venues with great musicians sell out! Out of courtesy for those on the wait-list, always cancel your RSVP if you are not coming.
I ask that you have a real portrait photo on your MeetUp profile because at these events we really are looking for you. Please look for me, sit with the group, and get to know others who like to listen to live music!
Good times!
Carolyn
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis!Confederation Park , Ottawa, ON
Hey, Note Lovers, it's Carolyn here. Come join us for Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis! – part of the summer Jazz Festival
Wynton Marsalis (Music Director, Trumpet) is the Managing and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1961 to a musical family, Mr. Marsalis was gifted his first trumpet at age 6… In total, he has recorded 1,539 songs at the time of this writing. Marsalis is the winner of 9 GRAMMY Awards, and his oratorio Blood on the Fields was the first jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music... (from ottawajazzfestival.com)Date: Tue, Jun 24, 2025, 8:30 p.m. Main Stage. I’m showing up earlier.
Location Confederation Park, Elgin St, Ottawa, ON K1P 5J2 Canada
Time: I’ll be there all evening starting at 6:30pm main stage:
Your day pass includes:
The Prime Rib Big Band - Confederation Park Main Stage @ 6:30pmPolky - OLG Stage, Marion Dewar Plaza @ 7:30pm
TBA - Confederation Park Main Stage @ 8:30pm
Balkan Paradise Orchestra - OLG Stage, Marion Dewar Plaza @ 10:30pm
TICKETS: The prices for the tickets really depend on a few factors. You might want to buy a day pass for $88. You might want to use your CAA card to make it only $75. If you're thinking about going to a whole bunch of shows, consider the bronze pass. Or the gold pass, which gets you into things for the whole week. See details on the main Ottawa Jazz Festival website. If you are a youth, tickets are cheaper still. And if you volunteer, you get to see it for free!
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Consider the week passes: WEEK PASS
Consider the day pass: DAY PASS
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I will update with where, when to meet and how to find me in June. I’ll post what I’m wearing, and where I am all the time. We will find you. (Please note I’m not going to look for you unless you have a perfectly clear portrait photo on your meetup profile) If you’re looking for the group, keep checking the main chat for this event (see below, scroll down right now….) and I’ll be constantly posting stuff for anyone that hasn’t found me yet.RSVP here. Cancel if you’re not coming. Dress for the weather. Maybe a lawnchair.
Good times!
- Ottawa Jazz Festival 2025 -Samara Joy!Confederation Park , Ottawa, ON
Hey, Note Lovers, it's Carolyn here. Come join us for Ottawa Jazz Festival 2025 -Samara Joy!
A native of the Bronx, Samara Joy became entranced by classic R&B as a child and cut her teeth as a singer in her church’s gospel choir....a masterful interpreter of jazz standards and a rightful heiress of the sound, technique and charisma that defined her jazz heroines — including Vaughan, Betty Carter, Abbey Lincoln and Carmen McRae.... (from ottawajazzfestival.com, photo also)
Date: Friday June 27, 2025, 8:30 p.m. Main Stage. I’m showing up earlier.
Location Confederation Park, Elgin St, Ottawa, ON K1P 5J2 Canada
Time: I’ll be there all evening starting at 6:30pm main stage:
Your day pass includes:
TBA - Confederation Park Main Stage @ 6:30pm
Brekky Boy - OLG Stage, Marion Dewar Plaza @ 7:30pm
Samara Joy - Confederation Park Main Stage @ 8:30pm
Ghost-Note - OLG Stage, Marion Dewar Plaza @ 10:30pmTICKETS: The prices for the tickets really depend on a few factors. You might want to buy a day pass for $88. You might want to use your CAA card to make it only $75. If you're thinking about going to a whole bunch of shows, consider the bronze pass. Or the gold pass, which gets you into things for the whole week. See details on the main Ottawa Jazz Festival website. If you are a youth, tickets are cheaper still. And if you volunteer, you get to see it for free!
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Consider the week passes: WEEK PASS
Consider the day pass: DAY PASS
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I will update with where, when to meet and how to find me in June. I’ll post what I’m wearing, and where I am all the time. We will find you. (Please note I’m not going to look for you unless you have a perfectly clear portrait photo on your meetup profile) If you’re looking for the group, keep checking the main chat for this event (see below, scroll down right now….) and I’ll be constantly posting stuff for anyone that hasn’t found me yet.RSVP here. Cancel if you’re not coming. Dress for the weather. Maybe a lawnchair.
Good times!
- Ottawa Jazz Festival 2025 Branford Marsalis Quartet!Confederation Park , Ottawa, ON
Hey, Note Lovers, it's Carolyn here. Come join us for Ottawa Jazz Festival 2025 Branford Marsalis Quartet!
New Orleans-born Branford Marsalis is an award-winning saxophonist, band leader, featured classical soloist, and a film and Broadway composer. In the process, he has become a multi award-winning artist with three Grammys, a citation by the National Endowment for the Arts as a Jazz Master and an avatar of contemporary artistic excellence.... (from ottawajazzfestival.com) photo credit
Date: Sunday June 29, 2025, 8:30 p.m. Main Stage. I’m showing up earlier.
Location Confederation Park, Elgin St, Ottawa, ON K1P 5J2 Canada
Time: I’ll be there all evening starting at 6:30pm main stage:
Your day pass includes:
Jazz Youth Summit - Confederation Park Main Stage @ 6:30pm
Isaiah Collier "The World is on Fire" - OLG Stage, Marion Dewar Plaza @ 7:30pm
Branford Marsalis Quartet - Confederation Park Main Stage @ 8:30pm
TBD - OLG Stage, Marion Dewar Plaza @ 10:30pmTICKETS: The prices for the tickets really depend on a few factors. You might want to buy a day pass for $49. If you're thinking about going to a whole bunch of shows, consider the bronze pass. Or the gold pass, which gets you into things for the whole week. See details on the main Ottawa Jazz Festival website. If you are a youth, tickets are cheaper still. And if you volunteer, you get to see it for free!
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Consider the week passes: WEEK PASS
Consider the day pass: DAY PASS
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I will update with where, when to meet and how to find me in June. I’ll post what I’m wearing, and where I am all the time. We will find you. (Please note I’m not going to look for you unless you have a perfectly clear portrait photo on your meetup profile) If you’re looking for the group, keep checking the main chat for this event (see below, scroll down right now….) and I’ll be constantly posting stuff for anyone that hasn’t found me yet.RSVP here. Cancel if you’re not coming. Dress for the weather. Maybe a lawnchair.
Good times!
- Canadian Jazz vocalist Caity Gyorgy at Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre!Dominion-Chalmers United Church, Ottawa, ON
Hey, Note Lovers, it's Carolyn here. Come join us for Jazz vocalist Caity Gyorgy at Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre!
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We’ve seen Caity, a 26-year-old jazz vocalist from Calgary, twice this year… and yes, we want to see her again!The Irving Berlin Songbook
L’Orchestre national de jazz de Montreal
Caity Gyorgy – singer
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“Caity Gyorgy (pronounced George) is 2 time JUNO-award winning Canadian vocalist who is known for singing bebop and swing music. She has performed at popular clubs and jazz festivals across Canada and the USA and has worked and recorded with incredible musicians and groups including Christine Jensen, Pat LaBarbera, Jocelyn Gould, Ira Coleman, Allison Au, Bryn Roberts and Postmodern Jukebox, to name a few.In addition to performing, Caity is also an avid writer and composes songs in the style of the Great American Songbook. Her compositions have been sung by other vocalists around the world, and she was recently named the Grand Prize Winner of the 2021 John Lennon Songwriting Contest in the Jazz category for her song “Secret Safe”.” Photo and bio from JazzYYC
Date: Saturday, July 5, 2025 at 7:00 pmTime: Show up at 7:00 when the doors open, we’ll find each other at the door, get our seats. It is a beautiful old church. Music is 7:30pm. *I will wait for you until 7:05 latest, and then I’m going in.
**** Show up by 7:00 if you want to sit with the group.****
If your meet up profile doesn’t have a clear portrait photo of you, then no one is looking for you! 😊
Location: Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 355 Cooper St, Ottawa, ON K2P 0G8
Tickets : buy this: “General | Générale Floor Level Seating or Balcony Level Seating $ 40.00” BUY YOUR TICKET HERE! (it is only 25$ if you have a pass, and only 20$ or 10$ if you’re a student)
*RSVP to this meetup group if you're coming and cancel your RSVP if you change your mind. *
Good times!
