Will NCC Dominate Ottawa Concert Scene? THE VOTER

The National Capital Commission has leased the former Chapters to Live Nation who will be developing the facility.

This is bad news for the Ottawa music scene since Live Nation is part of the same corporate structure as Ticketmaster. As such, they will have the ability to shut other entertainment centres out of any access to many tours.

In many of the venues they own or operate, they will only book acts that agree to appear exclusively at their venues for the entire tour and exclusively use Ticketmaster as their ticket selling provider. This allows them to control the timing and price of concerts across North America.

Smaller promoters are often shut out of a tour even though the Live Nation/Ticketmaster conglomerate doesn’t have a venue in their community. As this moves to its inevitable conclusion, those small operations will either fold or only present new or fading artists.

I doubt that a venue like le hibou would be able to exist in this environment even though it was monumental in its day.

The Voter is a respected community activist and long-time Bulldog commenter who prefers to keep her identity private.

Mariah Carey is one of many Live Nation acts.

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