\ TO EAST \ It’s been nearly three-and-a-half years now since Nicola Vaughan started her weekly Wednesday jam at Black Swan on Danforth at Broadview Ave. In that time a parade of talented performers has taken to the stage area on the raised portion of the pub each week starting at 9:30. Players can showcase…
SHOW LISTINGS for Tuesday, September 29, 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…
\ TORONTO, Sept. 28, 2015 \ Another Toronto music icon has passed away with the death of guitarist Brian Miller, who was part of the progressive Rock band Zon that briefly flew close to the sun in the late 1970s and early 80s. A Facebook announcement was made by his friend and co-worker Chris Bennett…
\ TO DOWNTOWN \ Often sporting a look that might be described as “vintage Mexican revolutionary,” songwriter and charismatic shows organizer Brian Jantzi can be counted on to present a boisterous event by assembling an amorphous crew of talented performers as The Lost Mariachis to create a free-flowing “hippy vibe” musical happening. Tonight’s early 5-8…
Olde Stone Cottage in Scarborough doesn’t normally have live music Sundays but this afternoon at 4:20 features versatile Julian Taylor with his band and a set by Flynn Tanner. Cover charge in effect. With summer over the monthly last-Sunday Lazy Cat Open Stage is set to resume today 3-5:30 in the Community Centre at…
\ TORONTO \ One of the most familiar faces of all time at Fat Albert’s Open Stage & Coffee House over the past several decades never strummed a guitar at its weekly open stage. Ray Peak, who, along with Ed Matthews, was one of the original team that ran the event when it started in…
Versatile piano man Peter Hill, in addition to fronting his own creative Jazz combo, is the accompanist of choice for many different Jazz and Blues/Country artists. He’s perhaps best known for his role as 88s anchor for Laura Hubert’s Pop Jazz combo, which appears at The Rex this afternoon at 3:30, but also is a…
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\ TO DOWNTOWN \ Bass player Kevin Jeffrey is one of two hold over members of the Under The Bus group that now goes by the name Hold The Bus hosting two monthly shows at Grossman’s downtown: the “First Friday” early sessions and tonight’s “4th Thursday” 9-2 open mic, with versatile Nicola Vaughan guest hosting.…
They say “Rock and Roll will never die” and while we’ll all shuffle off the mortal coil eventually it certainly seems that there are a lot of die-hard players who are still going strong decades after first rising to fame. Roger Ellis hit it big with Edward Bear in the 70s and still writes and…
SHOW LISTINGS for Tuesday, September 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…
\ ETOBICOKE \ It’s long been a big mystery to me why, for an area that’s so loaded with musical talent and with several venues that are very hospitable to live music, there hasn’t been a regular weekly jam happening on a weeknight in Etobicoke. That finally changes tonight as Al Reilly and his Catalyst…
\ TO EAST \ For the past three-and-a-half years now musicians and appreciative audiences have been making east Toronto’s Danforth strip just west and east of Woodbine Avenue a weekly Sunday afternoon and evening destination. The attraction is two open mic jam events that offer affable hosts with eclectic skills in rooms that are nurturing…
SHOW LISTINGS for Saturday, September 19, 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…
\ NEWMARKET \ If it’s the last Saturday of the summer (which September 19 is indeed) then it’s time for another incarnation of the annual WOODYSTOCK Festival in Newmarket, the annual concert of Rock and Blues music run by north GTA resident Woody S. Woodley to raise awareness and dough to fund research into lupus…
\ TORONTO \ Sam Taylor and his East End Love Blues band is part of a very talented multi-act lineup paying tribute tonight to The Guess Who at an 8:30 Hugh’s Room show on Dundas St. West near Bloor. But will he have regular bass player David Macmichael with him? Macmichael’s own indie Pop Danger…
SHOW LISTINGS for Thursday, September 17, 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 \ It’s taken more than a year longer than originally anticipated for Bri-anne Swan to release her latest full-length album, Letters Home —though it was a delay most joyously occasioned as the soulful indie Roots songwriter gave birth to her second son, Simon. Now her new musical “baby” is ready to pop…
\ HAMILTON \ Expressions of shock and accolades honouring his many contributions to music and art in Hamilton erupted yesterday as news of the death of Bill Powell began to spread. His longtime wife and partner in all his endeavours, Lynne Powell, posted on Facebook yesterday morning that the painter, founder of the Festival of…
SHOW LISTINGS for Tuesday, September 15, 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 Monday, September 14, 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…
