The Rainbow - Ottawa's Legendary Home of the Blues

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Ottawa's Rainbow Bistro, located at 76 Murray Street in the Byward Market area doesn't call itself Ottawa's Legendary Home of the Blues without justification. The 'Bow' celebrated it's 20th Anniversary bash 24 November 2004, and has been bringing in both Ottawa's fine local talent and great blues musicians from places near and far since 1984.

Rainbow 20th Anniversary Party Photos Now On-line

The Rainbow's reputation as a great place to go to catch a favourite blues artist is well known both in Canada and internationally. Besides being Ottawa's most active blues bar, it offers a minimum of twelve live music acts each week and sometimes goes beyond this with double bills such as the Tony D and David Gogo Back-to-back Guitar Attack.

The Rainbow's talented bar staff will fulfil any of your beverage needs while the venue fulfils your blues orders followed by interesting chasers of jazz, reggae, funk, rock and Ska. If you haven't checked out this venue or haven't been there lately, you owe it to yourself to get there soon and enjoy some great live music.

In the photo to the left is one of the Canadian originals, Dutch Mason "Prime Minister of the Blues", sharing the stage with Big Daddy "G", one of the more recent blues bands, carrying on Dutch's blues traditions.











In the photo right, Magic Slim accompanied by his Chicago Blues partners, The Teardrops, brings his intense, electrified, Mississippi-to-Chicago blues style to Ottawa blues fans at the Bow. Below at the Bow, Roomfull of Blues fulfills to the room the promise in its name.



Rico Ferrera's Blues for a Big Town presentations ended off on a very high note with the fine honed, hot blues and R & B vocals of Rusty Zinn and the tight accompaniment of The Dynatones rocked the Bow once more.












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Map of 76 Murray St
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