SHOW LISTINGS for Tuesday, June 30, 2021 Listings are organized by area in which the shows occur and within each area field shows are listed chronologically. 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…
\ TO DOWNTOWN \ Toronto Mayor John Tory is scheduled to make a speech this morning about “Music In The City Of Toronto” that hopefully will contain some specific initiatives that would stand in stark relief to what a series of highly-touted and so far completely ineffectual industry and city initiatives have failed to accomplish.…
\ TO EAST \ Although I know from personal experience that David Shilman is comfortable behind a microphone and can deliver an engaging patter that entertains audiences, I was surprised to learn this week that he also plays guitar. David shares his wit and genial nature as the co-host, with songwriter Linda Lavender, of the…
\ TO WEST \ I was very glad that I was able to get out to West TO bar The Cat this past January to take in a stellar night of entertainment put together by Junction-area musical godfather Dave McManus. To celebrate his latest birthday the versatile veteran bass player, who’s been putting on live…
\ TO EAST \ I wrote not too long ago about Dan Dimock, an acoustic Pop performer I had only met a few weeks earlier who impressed me at the Monday night open stage hosted by Sebastian Agnello at Black Swan. As I wrote then, what particularly stayed with me was his willingness to take…
\ TO DOWNTOWN \ It’s great to see evocative singer Laura Hubert on the roster for not one but two shows happening tonight as part of the Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival. For some reason her acceptance by the Jazz establishment in the city –the booker at The Rex and those at a number of savvy…
\ TO DOWNTOWN \ It’s the last Wednesday in June, which for scores of TO Folk music fans signals the end of yet another season of weekly open stages at the venerable unlicensed gathering known as Fat Albert’s Coffee House. Although Fat’s has never been an actual venue (it’s a concept for an event, started…
Today is about the half-way mark of this year’s edition of the Toronto Jazz Festival and scores of venues that regularly feature live music as well as those that only do so for special occasions feature acts from both close at home and far away. Not all the acts are really what I’d think of…
SHOW LISTINGS for Monday, June 22, 2021 Listings are organized by area in which the shows occur and within each area field shows are listed chronologically. 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…
SHOW LISTINGS for Sunday, June 21, 2015: Listings are organized by area in which shows take place and listed chronologically within each area field. 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…
\ TO DOWNTOWN \ Even if David Storey‘s debut full-length album being released tonight downtown at Free Times Café isn’t technically autobiographical, its title, Coming Home, is certainly an apt summary of the new juncture that he and his artistic career have reached. For after nearly 25 years of applying his wit, sensitivity and artistry…
SHOW LISTINGS for Friday, June 19, 2015: Listings are organized by area in which the shows occur and within each area field shows are listed chronologically. 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…
It’s a night of goings and comings as two musicians who’ve been at the centre of a lively acoustic community for the past few years do their final show in the west end prior to moving out east while a pair of guitarists who’ve been performing together as part of a rockin’ Blues band unveil…
\ OSHAWA \ It was sadly ironic and disappointing that, just a few weeks after celebrating the second anniversary of his weekly Big Mojo jam in Oshawa, local Blues icon Howard Ross had to announce last month that the Oshawa club in which it was being held had suddenly closed. Fortunately, it didn’t take the…
\ TO EAST \ It’s been a little over five years since the first time I set foot in a live music venue that has become a central part of my life ever since: Relish, at 2152 Danforth a block east of Woodbine in east TO. I was first drawn to the tapas eatery not…
\ TORONTO EAST \ Although it’s a few weeks tardy in being commemorated, tonight Pop Rock/Funk-Dance songwriter and mesmerizing performer Julian Taylor celebrates seven years at the helm of a weekly open stage jam at Dora Keogh Irish Pub. The first night of the event in the pub at 141 Danforth Ave. would have actually…
\ TO EAST \ We’ve made clear in the past our feelings about what we regard as the arrogant and insincere underpinnings of the annual North By Northeast (NXNE) festival (which takes place again next week) and nothing has changed to alter our view about that. So a year ago we were delighted to enthusiastically…
SHOW LISTINGS for Saturday, June 13, 2021 Listings are organized by area in which the shows occur and within each area field shows are listed chronologically. 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…
\ TO EAST \ As we told you not too long ago, for over 40 years now operatic/satirical Rock songwriter Robbie Rox has been making fun of the pretensions of the gentry class: people for whom lunch is a social highlight rather than a utilitarian bite and who use gas-guzzling vehicles designed for rugged terrain…
\ ETOBICOKE \ We’ve written a few times over the past several years about jams hosted by effervescent and engaging singer Kimberley Wetmore and her band anchored by versatile and vigorous guitarist Dave Girdlestone. After a couple of years hosting a fairly regular every-other-Thursday jam at Roc’n’ Doc’s in Port Credit, back in early 2014…
\ TO WEST \ One of these nights I really have to get myself out to interesting and diverse venue The Painted Lady at 218 Ossington Avenue in TO West. I love the fact that they book indie bands and solo artists/combos several nights a week and the attitude that they display on their website,…
\ TORONTO EAST 150609 \ Energetic and charismatic east-Toronto drummer and poet Steve Hunt passed away in his sleep overnight on the morning of June 8, family and friends have reported. According to a knowledgeable source he had been visiting a friend and stayed over, slipping away during the night. Steve, who started playing drums…
