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After the pioneer of pop parody, Weird Al Yankovic, jammed everything from Lady Gaga to Star Wars into his performance at RBC Royal Bank Bluesfest on Sunday, one fan in the crowd was overheard expressing his surprise.

“That was way, way, way more entertaining than I expected,” he observed to his friend as they made their way through the tightly packed crowd at the Claridge Homes stage.

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Indeed. The same can be said for this year’s edition of the 11-day festival, which wrapped up Sunday at LeBreton Flats Park on the grounds of the Canadian War Museum.

More than 220 acts representing every genre of popular music performed on five stages, attracting a crowd estimated to be 300,000 strong, about the same as last year.

Rapper Kanye West was responsible for the biggest Bluesfest show since KISS, despite the complaints and calls for a boycott that preceded his appearance. More than 30,000 people will be able to follow West’s instructions and tell their kids that they caught him on July 10, before it was announced that he would play the closing ceremony of the Pan Am Games.