The incident at Ottawa's CityFolk music festival underscores present-day challenges of organizing music festivals in Canada.

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A 26-year-old Ottawa man has been released on bail after allegedly uttering a threat to cause death to the musical artist Morrissey ahead of his appearance at CityFolk last week . Article content

Court documents allege Noah Castellano made the threat against the English singer-songwriter via the Bluesky social media service on Sept. 4. Article content Article content

A Bluesky post dated Sept. 4 under the account name “guy who gets shot in the head one hundred thousand times a day” matches the description of the post included in the court documents. Referring to the performer by his birth name, it reads: “Steven Patrick Morrissey when you

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