For our seventh fall festival IMOO is moving into a new, larger home in Centretown: the Glebe-St. James United Church at 650 Lyon Street. Over two nights in October we will present a large array of Canadian and International artists including both new-to-IMOO (the Canadian Electronic Ensemble, Jacques Demierre, Axel Dörner, Eve Egoyan, Erin Rogers, etc.) and long-time friends of IMOO (Lina Allemano, Nicolas Caloia, Yves Charuest, Jean Derome, Lori Freedman, Ben Grossman, Éric Normand, John Oswald, Jesse Stewart, Scott Thomson, and more).

IMOO Fest is the only multi-day music festival in Ottawa which operates without any government funding and despite that continues to offer the lowest ticket prices in town thanks to the generosity of a small number of private donors. For just 50 bucks this year you can see a total of 8 sets of music which would each run a minimum of $20-$30 apiece at larger corporate-branded festivals.

For our Friday night program this year IMOO has partnered with our friends at Tour de Bras Records and Québec Musiques Parallèles to present the Ottawa debuts of Amber, Brulez Les Meubles, and DDK along with Toronto’s long-running Canadian Electronic Ensemble.

Saturday night brings long-time friends of IMOO Yves Charuest and Nicolas Caloia, the New York-based duo Popebama, John Oswald’s “Mystery Ensemble” (with Lina Allemano, Eve Egoyan, Ben Grossman, and Jesse Stewart), and the Eyevin Nonet, Montreal drummer Ivan Bamford’s 9-piece Thomas Chapin tribute project.

The weekend will conclude with our traditional “Pay What You Can” Sunday night show at Spark Beer featuring LSD Trio and 1/4 Tonne Overhaul. The full schedule can be found below.

Friday October 13th

Saturday October 14th

Sunday October 15th

(*) Late programming change. Kathryn Patricia Cobbler was originally scheduled to perform on Sunday evening but had to cancel due to a scheduling conflict.