Festive Talk

Michael Smith of OFN sits down with Michael Wood, CMO of Ottawa Special Events, and Steve Johnston, partner and senior audio and video producer with Ably Productions. They chat about how their companies survived the pandemic and the challenges they continue to face. They also give their take on the future of the event and production industry.

Today we got to chat with local artists Chantal Hackett and Sophie D'Orléans all about their lives as musicians, how the COVID-19 pandemic affected them and their work, and we talk all about Encore Ottawa which they will separately be performing at very soon! Chantal Hackett Website:  chantalhackett.com/ Instagram:  www.instagram.com/chantalhackett/?hl=en Youtube:  www.youtube.com/user/chack09...

The festival industry has been one of the hardest-hit markets during the pandemic. It has been especially tough for the gig and production workers who found themselves out of work, virtually overnight. In this episode of Festival Talk, Micheal and Emilie interview Leanne Moussa the president and founder of All Saints Events Space and Marie-Clo and Yolande Laroche two singer songwriters from the Ot...

In this first episode of the  #FestiveTalk  series, we chat with Margo MacDonald, Amal El-Mohtar & Mary Ellis the producer, one of three playwrights and director of Dressed as People, a theatrical triptych performed at this year's Ottawa Fringe Festival.