Ottawa's Rainbow Bistro, located at 76 Murray St. in the Byward Market is known as Ottawa's Legendary Home of the Blues... with justification. This year The Rainbow will celebrating it's 24th Anniversary of featuring National and International Blues Artists and Ottawa's finest local talent.
Since opening it's doors 1984, The Rainbow has built a solid reputation Internationally and throughout Canada as an excellent club to see favourite blues artists as well as being an outstanding venue and a "must stop" for musicians to perform at.
If you haven't checked us out or haven't been here lately, you owe it to yourself to get here soon and enjoy some great live music.
The Rainbow Bistro celebrates 24 years of bringing live Local, National and International acts to it's stage featuring many types of music, particularily, the Blues. With entertainment 7 days a week and free matinée shows 5 days a week, The Rainbow features a diverse range of entertainment.
- Stacie's Showcase - Every Monday Stacie selects 3 or 4 new, original, emerging and/or established talent of different musical genres from around the world for one full evening of entertainment.
- Weekly matinée shows 5 - 7 pm - Wednesdays with The Dr. Dave Revue, Alternating Thursdays with Frank & Jesse James, and Seedhill Road and Fridays with The Coggs
- Weekend matinée shows 4 - 7 pm - On Saturday's and our Weekly Open Jam on Sunday's with varying hosts.
- Friday and Saturday Evenings - Headlining Shows with top notch musical entertainment from around the globe.
In addition to being Ottawa's most active Blues bar, the Rainbow brings in a diverse range of entertainment from around the globe. Alternative, Pop, Ska, Reggae, Country, Funk, R & B, Soul, Jazz, Rock, pretty well every musical style out there have all found a home at The Rainbow. From one person acoustic shows to full out 15 piece bands The Rainbow, has a time slot and entertainment style for everyone.