SHOW LISTINGS for Tuesday, September 30, 2014: Listings preceded by an asterisk (*) are repeating weekly events. (Double asterisk indicates repeating event with different hosts/guest/etc.). Admission prices followed by a slash and minus (/-) after the amount indicates door charge with availability of cheaper rates for some purchases. /+ indicates stated price is minimum. Names…
SHOW LISTINGS for Monday, September 29, 2014: Listings preceded by an asterisk (*) are repeating weekly events. (Double asterisk indicates repeating event with different hosts/guest/etc.). Admission prices followed by a slash and minus (/-) after the amount indicates door charge with availability of cheaper rates for some purchases. /+ indicates stated price is minimum. Names…
140928Su SHOW LISTINGS for Sunday September 28, 2021 : Listings preceded by an asterisk (*) are repeating weekly events. (Double asterisk indicates repeating event with different hosts/guest/etc.). Admission prices followed by a slash and minus (/-) after the amount indicates door charge with availability of cheaper rates for some purchases. /+ indicates stated price is…
140927Sa Please note this article has been updated from its original posting due to an unintentional error of attribution made by your editor. Tonight’s show tribute to Nik Beat likely first of many \ TORONTO EAST \ Although a funeral and life celebration for the late Nik Beat (born Michael Barry) already took place earlier…
Don’t expect aging Rockers to ever give up on catching the dream \ SCARBOROUGH \ In his rather charming song “Old Rockers Never Die”, Folk artist Brian Gladstone sings about a village he happened upon in Wales while doing a gig across the pond where, the song claims, older musicians have gathered to “retire” and…
SHOW LISTINGS for Thursday, September 25, 2014: Listings preceded by an asterisk (*) are repeating weekly events. (Double asterisk indicates repeating event with different hosts/guest/etc.). Admission prices followed by a slash and minus (/-) after the amount indicates door charge with availability of cheaper rates for some purchases. /+ indicates stated price is minimum. Names…
SHOW LISTINGS for Wednesday, September 24, 2014: Listings preceded by an asterisk (*) are repeating weekly events. (Double asterisk indicates repeating event with different hosts/guest/etc.) Admission prices followed by a slash and minus (/-) after the amount indicates door charge with availability of cheaper rates for some purchases. /+ indicates stated price is minimum. Names…
The September 23 Celebration of Life for poet/musician/broadcaster and craft-artist Nik Beat (born Michael Barry) at St. John The Baptist, Norway, Anglican Church on Woodbine Avenue in east TO was an emotional event that evolved into a love-in. Another writer will describe her sentiments about it an a separate piece. But here I want to…
SHOW LISTINGS for Tuesday, September 23, 2014: Listings preceded by an asterisk (*) are repeating weekly events. (Double asterisk indicates repeating event with different hosts/guest/etc.). Admission prices followed by a slash and minus (/-) after the amount indicates door charge with availability of cheaper rates for some purchases. /+ indicates stated price is minimum. Names…
SHOW LISTINGS for Monday, September 22, 2014: Listings preceded by an asterisk (*) are repeating weekly events. (Double asterisk indicates repeating event with different hosts/guest/etc.). Admission prices followed by a slash and minus (/-) after the amount indicates door charge with availability of cheaper rates for some purchases. /+ indicates stated price is minimum. Names…
Memorial for enigmatic musician Garry O’Keefe this afternoon \ TORONTO EAST \ I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one on the east-Toronto music scene who felt like he never really knew guitarist, singer and songwriter Garry O’Keefe all that well. And when he passed away on August 26 at 60 years of age, what…
\ TORONTO EAST Sunday, September 21, 2021 \ by Gary 17 \ Friends of the late Nik Beat, who passed away at his apartment suddenly sometime Wednesday, apparently from a stroke or heart attack, are being asked to help prepare a memorial video for a visitation Monday and funeral Tuesday by sharing their photos of…
Summer may be over, but festival season lives on \TORONTO WEST / NEWMARKET \ While it is expected to warm up a tad for today and tomorrow, summer’s last gasps are unmistakably being spent and this weekend marks the formal transition into the autumn season. But that doesn’t mean festival time is over –not by…
SHOW LISTINGS for Friday, September 19, 2014: Listings preceded by an asterisk (*) are repeating weekly events. (Double asterisk indicates repeating event with different hosts/guest/etc.). Admission prices followed by a slash and minus (/-) after the amount indicates door charge with availability of cheaper rates for some purchases. /+ indicates stated price is minimum.…
R.I.P. Nik Beat … passed away suddenly September 17, 2021 \ TORONTO \ Shockwaves are rippling through the Toronto poety, music and media communities tonight as word spreads about the sudden passing of author, songwriter and radio host Nik Beat of unknown causes. His sister, Teresa Barry Longley, made the announcement at approximately 7…
Jeff Healey to be inducted to Canada’s Walk Of Fame \ TORONTO, Thursday, September 18, 2021 \ The late Toronto Blues guitar/Jazz trumpet player and songwriter Jeff Healey is to be inducted into Canada’s Walk Of Fame in one month’s time, the organization has announced. Healey, blind from the age of seven months after contracting…
SHOW LISTINGS for Thursday, September 18, 2014: Listings preceded by an asterisk (*) are repeating weekly events. (Double asterisk indicates repeating event with different hosts/guest/etc.). Admission prices followed by a slash and minus (/-) after the amount indicates door charge with availability of cheaper rates for some purchases. /+ indicates stated price is minimum. Names…
Celebrate and support 17’s ‘East York Chronicle’ community mag with over 20 great acts tonight! \ TORONTO EAST \ I’m usually loathe to use Toronto Moon story posts to promote my own shows when I’m hosting open stages or doing a guest appearance somewhere. I figure advertising in the Moon should be enough if it’s…
Breast cancer claims Gypsy Soul/Thinktank Fish musician Cathy Craig Gypsy Soul co-founder and trumpeter Cathy Craig last week succumbed to Stage 4 breast cancer according to an online obituary published by The Toronto Star. The Toronto native was 38 at the time of her death on September 12, the report says. She had been working…
SHOW LISTINGS for Tuesday, September 16, 2014: Listings preceded by an asterisk (*) are repeating weekly events. (Double asterisk indicates repeating event with different hosts/guest/etc.). Admission prices followed by a slash and minus (/-) after the amount indicates door charge with availability of cheaper rates for some purchases. /+ indicates stated price is minimum. Names…
Danforth Ave. rules as Monday nights’ destination zone \ TORONTO EAST \ There are plenty of fine open mics and other shows happening across the GTA on a Monday, but when it comes to variety and quality packed into a relatively close-knit area, it doesn’t get any better than Danforth Ave. in east Toronto. Furthest…
Michael Theodore back in the Sunday saddle starting today \ ETOBICOKE SOUTH \ For the past eight years or so, Pop balladeer Michael Theodore and his “four-piece trio” (which always includes Robbie Rox as conga player/backup singer and usually a bass player and a saxophonist) appeared almost every Sunday afternoon as the feature attraction at…
