Concerts & Events This Weekend in Ottawa
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Concerts & Events This Weekend in Ottawa
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Find concerts, sports, comedy and theatre in Ottawa for October 18 – October 18. Listings use the venue’s local date and are ordered by start time. Choose an event to review available tickets on CatchMovement, then continue with your selected seller. Prices and availability may change before checkout.
Things to do in Ottawa this weekend
An Ottawa weekend usually starts Friday around 5 p.m. when downtown empties and ByWard Market refills with the after-work crowd. Friday nights anchor on either a Senators home game (Canadian Tire Centre, 7 p.m. puck drop) or a Redblacks summer kickoff at TD Place (typically 7:30 p.m. on the CFL schedule), with the late-night spillover heading to Clarence Street, Dalhousie, and the ByWard core.
Saturdays in summer are festival days — Bluesfest, Jazzfest, CityFolk, Capital Pride, and the Tulip Festival all run their biggest programming Saturday afternoon through late evening — while winter Saturdays push people indoors to the NAC for orchestra and theatre matinees, to the Canadian Tire Centre for whichever arena tour is in town, or to Lansdowne for 67's hockey and pre-game drinks along Bank Street. Sundays lean quieter and more family-shaped: brunch in Westboro or the Glebe, an afternoon at the National Gallery or Canadian Museum of History across the river in Gatineau, and a Sunday-evening NAC concert or comedy room to close things out.
Lansdowne's TD Place neighbourhood does double duty on game days, with the Bank Street strip from Holmwood to Glebe Avenue effectively becoming a pre-game and post-game patio crawl six hours a side. This page surfaces the full Friday-to-Sunday slate — concerts, comedy, sports, theatre, festivals, and free public events — sorted by start time.
What's on by month
October
October opens the Senators NHL regular season at Canadian Tire Centre — the home opener typically runs the first or second week of the month with premium ticket pricing. The NAC's full subscription season runs every weekend with concurrent productions across all four resident departments. The Crackup Comedy Festival fills downtown venues through the second weekend of October with standup, sketch, and improv programming. The Redblacks CFL regular season wraps with playoff implications on the final two home Fridays. Carleton and uOttawa varsity sports run heavy through October. Halloween programming at the NAC's Fourth Stage and at the city's comedy clubs fills the last weekend.
November
The Eastern Semi-Final runs the first weekend of November between the 2nd and 3rd East Division seeds — if the Redblacks make the playoffs, TD Place runs a home playoff Friday with elevated pricing and a sellout crowd. The Grey Cup follows two weeks later in a rotating host city. Ottawa Senators NHL home schedule fills the calendar through November with primetime weeknight and weekend dates. The Canadian Tire Centre runs heavier on arena tours through Q4 as artists route through Canada in November and December. Remembrance Day (November 11) draws massive crowds to the National War Memorial on Elgin and shifts NAC programming. The 67's are deep into OHL regular-season play with weekend home dates at TD Place.