Change the Beat w/ Sydney Blu in City At Night
Schedule
Sat Dec 14 2024 at 09:00 pm to Sun Dec 15 2024 at 02:30 am
UTC-05:00Location
City At Night | Ottawa, ON
Join us and Ottawa's best dance music DJs, White Rabbit Saturdays in City At Night. Check out our spin on happy hour = #HoppyHour! From 9pm - 10pm we offer $4 beer & bar rail!Change the Beat and White Rabbit proudly present the always exceptional SYDNEY BLU, accompanied by local Ottawa tastemakers ALAMUSIC and QUEEN AGA. Join us on Dec 14th in City At Night for a night with absolute top-shelf female talent in house music.
@changethebeatofficial is a non-profit organization that helps elevate women and diversity in the music industry. This show is part of a 10-city tour going across Canada and with workshops supported by Canada Council for the Arts and Long & Mcquade. Details for the workshop hosted earlier in the evening by our guest DJs will be announced soon.
SYDNEY BLU
(Truesoul / Knee Deep in Sound / Circus Recordings / Katerblau / Desert Hearts)
Sydney Blu’s career can be considered a journey of evolvement. With a tremendous passion for live performance, music production, and all-around artistic creativity, Sydney’s constant determination shines brightly through her accomplished DJ career. With beginnings in Toronto, Canada playing for The Guvernment Nightclub, Footwork Nightclub, and the LGBTQ2S+ community, then following 6 years in the United States touring the continent and the globe, all the way to her recent life in Berlin, Germany, Sydney’s dedication to living her life through music is unbridled.
A proudly Canadian artist, Sydney’s success is largely attributed to her relentless touring schedule which she’s upheld for several years. In 2009, Sydney Blu founded her imprint, Blu Music, on the principle of authentic, dancefloor-rich house and techno. The following year she extended her brand to another branch introducing her legendary Blu Party series, which curates some of the greatest names of the underground house. On top of that, Sydney has released music on some of the most recognized labels in the industry including Hot Since 82’s Knee Deep in Sound, Adam Beyers & Drumcode’s Truesoul, Steve Lawler’s VIVA Music, Desert Hearts Records, Deadmau5’s Mau5trap, Yousef’s Circus Recordings, Josh Butler’s Origins, Kevin Saunderson’s KMS Records, Katerblau Berlin’s Katermukke Records, and more. Her release "Give It Up For Me” on Mau5trap earned Sydney a #1 hit on Beatport for over 3 months. With multiple top ten records since then, Sydney continues to chart every year, including another recent top ten “Mind Games” on Hot Since 82’s Knee Deep in Sound which was premiered by Billboard Magazine.
March 2021 was the release of Sydney’s sophomore album Conviction, a meticulously produced, dance floor-driven collection of electronic music, with synth-laden 80’s inspired lead single Monologue, featuring Azari & III singer Fritz Helder, transitioning into various shades of deep, tech, and melodic house.
Perhaps, her most fully realized body of work to date, Conviction, earned her a JUNO nomination for Electronic Album of the Year and climbed to the top of Beatport’s Top 10 in Afrohouse, Deep House, Minimal House, Melodic and Tech house. Her lead singles Conspiracy, Temple, and To the Ground were playlisted on Electronic Rising, Organica, and Housework. The LP also received media praise from outlets Mixmag, 6am Group, Data Transmission, Electronic Groove, Musicis4lovers, Beyond Fashion Magazine, HOLR Fashion Mag, and garnered radio play from Danny Howard of BBC Radio 1, Sirius XM Radio, and CBC Radio 1’s George Stromboulopoulos.
In late 2021, Sydney launched the #23by23 campaign with the help of Native Instruments and a run of A-list record labels. The campaign’s aim is to encourage labels to increase their percentage of female producers to 23% or more by the end of 2023. To support this initiative, Label Radar is hosting remix competitions and demo challenges with some major labels participating in the campaign like SOMA Records, HE.SHE.THEY, Anjunadeep, Insomniac Records, Poker Flat Recordings, Hospital Records, Toolroom Records, Club Sweat, Gorgon City’s Realm Records, Soma Records, Desert Hearts, Walker and Royce’s Rules Don’t Apply, Circus Recordings and more.
Sydney has also taken #23by23 around the globe speaking about the importance of diversity on dance labels this past year at Amsterdam Dance Event, International Music Summit (Ibiza) and Berlin Dance Event.
One of Sydney’s greatest accomplishments to date has been her recent successful advocation for a new category at Canada’s largest award show ‘The JUNO Awards’. For four years, Sydney
gathered Canada’s top managers, agents, publicists, festival owners, club owners and artists in dance music to help urge The Canadian Academy of Arts and Sciences to make a new award that represents the origins of electronic music called ‘Underground Dance Single of the Year’. The category was successfully accepted by the JUNO’s in June 2021 and presented its first award in 2022 with Sydney Blu as its Chairwoman.
Local support from ALAMUSIC with QUEEN AGA setting the vibe during HoppyHour.
- A limited quantity of tickets are available online
- Table reservations/packages are recommended for groups and available online
- Walk-ins are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
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