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November 30, 2021

SHOW LISTINGS for Wednesday, November 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.) Events preceded by question mark (?) usually take place but have…

November 29, 2021

\ ETOBICOKE \ Toronto —and seemingly, judging by the latest Billboard chart, most of North America— has gone crazy for Heavy Metal Rock in the past week and according to the Toronto Star yesterday tickets for tonight’s “intimate” Daily Bread Food Bank benefit concert with Metallica at Opera House in east TO are being scalped…

November 28, 2021

Tyler Ellis at Dora Keogh -JULIAN TAYLOR

\ TO EAST \ With the holiday season fast approaching, the bar that hosts the Riverboat Mondays open stage with Julian Taylor and Tyler Ellis tends to get booked up for private parties and other special events. So tonight’s edition of the popular 9-12 event at Dora Keogh on Danforth Ave. near Broadview will be…

November 27, 2021

Darlene Sacks on handpan drum -COMPILATION,w

\ TO EAST \ There are those who vehemently deny that they even exist, but Toronto percussionist Darlene Sacks says that this afternoon she will offer irrefutable proof that not only is the handpan drum (or, more technically, simply the “handpan,” for reasons detailed below) actually real but that it’s also a legitimate musical instrument.…

November 27, 2021

Darlene Sacks on handpan drum -COMPILATION Sunday, November 27, 2021 | 161127Su There are those who vehemently deny that they even exist, but Toronto percussionist Darlene Sacks says that this afternoon she will offer irrefutable proof that not only is the handpan drum (or, more technically, simply the “handpan,” for reasons detailed below) actually real…

November 26, 2021

They say home is where the heart is and for performers that usually means a stage in a room in which they’re appreciated and that as a result is pretty much full for their show. That should be the case tonight for a couple of groups that appear in clubs where they’ve developed affiliations of…

November 25, 2021

SHOW LISTINGS for Friday, November 25, 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.). Events preceded by question mark (?) usually take place but have…

November 24, 2021

\ TO EAST \ The last Thursday of every month the small but inviting Black Bear Pub in East York near Scarborough features a rip-roaring Rock/R&B/Blues band that has established a strong following in the area and now also hosts the weekly Sunday jam at the friendly room at 1125 O’Connor Drive. Last month, as…

November 23, 2021

SHOW LISTINGS for Wednesday, November 23, 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.) Events preceded by question mark (?) usually take place but have…

November 22, 2021

\ TO EAST \ Although he’s a Juno-winning Blues songwriter who performs all over the city both doing headline shows and as a much sought-after accompanist to many other highly regarded Blues and Jazz acts, piano player and guitarist Julian Fauth still finds time every Tuesday evening —except of course when he’s on tour— to…

November 21, 2021

\ ETOBICOKE \ If big-band Jazz is to your taste then you’ve got a treat in store for you tonight at The Old Mill Inn nestled on the banks of the Humber River north of Bloor St. West where Etobicoke begins. Starting at 8 p.m. JAZZ.FM91 radio station presents, as part of its “Sound of…

November 20, 2021

\ TO EAST \ An ardently soulful human being in life as well as exhibiting those qualities in her art, as we described earlier this year, Folk-Pop songwriter Bri-Anne Swan has a deep, questing nature that comes through in not only her own compositions, but also in her selection of tunes by other artists that…

November 19, 2021

\ TO EAST \ It’s not yet been six years since I first met Rootsy-Pop songwriter Michael Bär in March of 2011 when he came out to the second week of an open stage I had started at Terri O’s, close to home for him on Danforth Ave. near Broadview. Pretty much since that night,…

November 18, 2021

Sugar Brown (Dr. Ken Kawashima) from cover art for 'Poor Lazarus'

After 19 years, presenting live music three or more nights a week for most of them, Fionn MacCool’s on the Esplanade in downtown TO closed recently with very little notice —unlike the hullabaloo that ensued around the shuttering of The Hideout after just a few years (though very impressive years with original live music seven…

November 17, 2021

SHOW LISTINGS for Thursday, November 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.). Events preceded by question mark (?) usually take place but have…

November 16, 2021

\ TO WEST \ Musical prodigies come along every now and then, though few end up lasting to become full-blown stars the way they are when they’re in their early youth. Derek Trucks now 37, burst onto the Blues scene as an 11-year old guitar phenom and ended up winning three Grammy Awards, including one…

November 15, 2021

\ TO WEST \ Sidemen often get the short end of the stick in terms of public notice, usually sort of fading into the background as the limelight shines on singers, lead guitarists and the like, only occasionally taking a turn in the spotlight doing solos. Taken for granted they may be, but players such…

November 14, 2021

\ TO CENTRAL \ I had started to wonder what had become of the Blues songwriter previously self-anointed as “Colorblind Brian Blain” (these days, I guess, “Formerly Colorblind Brian Blain” is more like it) since telling you about a showcase he did last year around this time at Old Mill in Etobicoke. Even though I…

November 13, 2021

In addition to being a dynamic and versatile singer who can cover a wide range of classic Rock numbers or slow it down and go all tender on an acoustic ballad, Scarborough singer Al Reilly is well known among his peers as a big-time supporter of other people’s performances. It’s one of the reasons his…

November 12, 2021

Double-slide Blues guitarist and songwriter Brian Cober, who has struggled with medical issues for the past two years, now reports that he has been diagnosed with “incurable” cancer after radiation and chemotherapy failed to stem a growth that has spread to his windpipe. In a post on Facebook yesterday Cober, who had just returned to…

November 12, 2021

\ TO DOWNTOWN \ With vinyl and cassette recording now firmly back “in”, people in the U.S. talking about a revival of 1960s-style activism to combat the election of Donald Trump and the fact that icons like Nobel laureate Bob Dylan and the late Leonard Cohen just never went away, maybe the time for a…

November 11, 2021

\ TO DOWNTOWN \ He will never be as famous or influential as Leonard Cohen and arguably never as talented an artist —but then, who could be? But 87-year-old Hugh Patrick Oliver, who returns to his weekly 5 p.m. Friday slot at Tranzac Club today, is certainly a remarkably creative, plucky and interesting poet and…