Silent Winters
7:30 p.m. Feb. 26, Gladstone Theatre, 910 Gladstone Ave.
Tickets: $23, available at thegladstone.ca
Until her great-aunt’s 100th birthday party, Ottawa musician Olenka Bastian never spent much time thinking about LeBreton Flats, that forlorn expanse of land along the Ottawa River west of Parliament Hill.
But then a woman at the party got up to thank Great Aunt Maria and her husband for giving her a place to stay when she came to Canada. She said she would have been a street kid if not for their establishment, the Duke Hotel.
It wasn’t the first time Bastian had heard of the …read more
Source: Ottawa Citizen
