The fat lady has sung. The curtains have closed. The 16th annual Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest has come to an end.

This sad reality is exacerbated by the fact that this year’s Bluesfest was one of the most successful in recent memory. The diverse talent satisfied even the most stubborn of musical appetites.

Enter the Ottawa Byward Market on a crisp summer day and you are bound to find yourself sipping on a cocktail with friends on a patio, moving to the beats of a jazz saxophonist or biting into the ripest fruit money can buy.

Ottawa prides itself on these staples that make the market one of the biggest tourist locales in Ontario. But while you are drinking, eating or dancing, you are likely to notice a blue and white attired individual, with beet red skin and covered in perspiration, pulling locals and tourists on a two-wheeled contraption.