RaveAboutIt

Showcasing the heart behind Eastern Canada’s electronic music scene.

The people. The stories. The culture.

Written by Brittany Provost, an electronic music journalist in Ottawa. 254 stories, four years, and everywhere the night takes us.

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Two hands making the PLUR heart sign, wrists stacked with kandi bracelets, at a daytime festival.
PLUR, in the only form that counts. Photo: Lakyn M Felix

Close to home

103 of these happened within a few hours of home, from Ottawa and Gatineau down the 417 to Montreal. Our festivals, our venues, our people.

All 254 stories

Photography

Five CO2 jets firing at once over a red washed stage, the crowd in silhouette below.
Photo: Lakyn M Felix

It’s unquestionably bittersweet to send off festival season for another year.

Brittany Provost, on Festival Riverside
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In their own words

Twenty-four sit-downs, rave babes. Some of them were headlining that night. Some of them were playing their first festival set...

  1. Dave Summit October 5, 2022
  2. Marc-Antoine Massicotte September 29, 2022
  3. PAQS September 28, 2022
  4. Hardwell September 21, 2022
  5. BUNDARR July 28, 2022
  6. CastNowski July 6, 2022
  7. Dashi May 5, 2022
  8. Avision April 13, 2022
  9. Paul van Dyk April 5, 2022
  10. HAMRO March 11, 2022
  11. Eskuche February 4, 2022
  12. Setou & Senyo December 1, 2021
  13. Return of the Jaded July 28, 2021
  14. SNAILS February 10, 2021
  15. Apashe May 1, 2020
  16. Mark Sherry April 12, 2020
  17. Giuseppe Ottaviani March 10, 2020
  18. Billy Kenny January 9, 2020
  19. WAX MOTIF October 18, 2019
  20. Sheridan Grout June 28, 2019
  21. Tone A June 11, 2019
  22. Domeno March 7, 2019
  23. Kyle Watson February 20, 2019
  24. Laidback Luke December 31, 2018

Shot by

Two photographers shoot this scene with us, and the galleries here are theirs. Where an older story recorded who took the picture, that name is in the byline.

Ravers on the floor, shot by Lakyn M Felix.

Lakyn M Felix

Photographer, web developer and designer. Nearly fifteen years in creative and fine arts, countless dance music events across Canada, and the person who built the site this one replaces.

See the work Golden hour festival crowd from the side of the stage, shot by Antony Doniewski.

Antony Doniewski

Photographer and videographer. The wide, high frames from the front of house and the back of the room.

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