-Gary 17, TorontoMoon.ca [email protected] * [email protected] SHOW LISTINGS for Thursday, February 28, 2022 Listings are organized by area in which the shows occur and within each area field shows are listed chronologically. For KEY to listings codes and schemata see note at end of shows list. Names of subscribers appear in bold, are underlined…
Monthly Archives: February 2019
High Court County lassoes a big one with 3 nights at Corral | TorontoMoon.ca 190226Tu | Shows for Tuesday, February 26, 2022
\ OSHAWA \ We’ve written a few times now about the “outlaw Country” band High Court County, which combines high-energy takes on of Country standards with its own Country-Rock originals to deliver a very exciting and dance-friendly show. Most recently in October we predicted that their one-night Tuesday debut that month at The Corral in…
Rock ‘n’ Roll rebel Johnnie Lovesin will make the afterlife louder
-By Gary 17, TorontoMoon.ca The first person I ever saw play a guitar live, in 1964 or early ‘65 in a church basement in the upper-middle-class suburb of Aldershot in Burlington, was a scruffy, “greaser” (as we called them in those days) bad boy who lived with his family in the motel they owned and…
D’Arcy Wickham connects viscerally without words on Signal Hill | TorontoMoon.ca 190224Su | Shows for Sunday, February 24, 2022
\ TO EAST \ As lovers of Classical and some Jazz music well know, sometimes music needs not even a syllable of lyrics to create vivid portraits and emotions in the mind of the listener. Stirring, sweeping vistas and interactions can be conjured up in compositions created by masters of instrumental music, which is why…
Storey revealing a new chapter with cd release tonight | TorontoMoon.ca 190223Sa | Shows for Saturday, February 23, 2022
\ TO EAST \ A songwriter as quintessentially Canadian as maple syrup and ice storms —and whose life has exhibited equally dramatic contrasts— David Storey is now poised to claim a place among the icons of the craft as his extraordinary catalogue of pithy, unforgettable songs continues to unfold. That tale adds a new chapter…
Winterfolk battles Cold Weather in east TO this weekend | TorontoMoon.ca 190222Fr | Shows for Friday, February 22, 2022
Wayne Neon & The Fabulous Tubular Orchestra is one of the acts at Black Swan tonight -PHIL CIGLEN \ TO EAST \ The seventeenth annual Winterfolk Blues & Roots Festival kicks off tonight on Danforth Ave. near Broadview, but having changed the weekend on which the event takes place it’s this year going up against…
Put ‘Going to Market’ with these Boogaloo boys on tonight’s to-do list | TorontoMoon.ca 190221Th | Shows for Thursday, February 21, 2022
By Beverly Kreller \ TO WEST \ The musical connection was immediate and electric and the chemistry palpable when Winnipeg native and now in-demand Toronto keyboardist Joel Visentin joined up with two hip, on-the-scene musicians in 2015, guitarist Adam Beer-Colacino and drummer Jeff Halischuk, to form JV’s Boogaloo Squad. All three instantly recognized that they…
4-year-old getting help tonight from Machine in leukemia battle | TorontoMoon.ca 190220We | Shows for Wednesday, February 20, 2022
Claire Hunter has ‘Something To Give’ you tonight | TorontoMoon.ca 190219Tu | Shows for Tuesday, February 19, 2022
\ TO WEST \ An engaging young Pop/Roots songwriter who’s been appearing on stages across the city frequently in the past couple of years, often as part of multi-act shows, Claire Hunter tonight releases an ep of originals. In performance videos on social media and her website she comes across as an earnestly focused young…
TorontoMoon.ca 190218Mo | Shows for Monday, February 18, 2022
-Gary 17, TorontoMoon.ca [email protected] * [email protected] SHOW LISTINGS for Monday, February 18, 2022 Listings are organized by area in which the shows occur and within each area field shows are listed chronologically. For KEY to listings codes and schemata see note at end of shows list. Names of subscribers appear in bold, are…
Sneak-ing up on 40 years hosting at Grossman’s, Bill Hedefine will spark memories tonight | TorontoMoon.ca 190217Su | Shows for Sunday, February 17, 2022
\ TO CENTRAL \ It’s now just about 40 years since drummer and songwriter Bill Hedefine first got involved with hosting a Sunday jam at Grossman’s Tavern. Much has changed in that time, including the fact that cannabis products are now legal and smoking in the alley doesn’t risk a jail sentence. But unlike 27…
Love 60s-style will come to life in Mississauga tonight |TorontoMoon.ca 190216Sa | Shows for Saturday, February 16, 2022
By Mike Beggs, Special to TorontoMoon.ca \ MISSISSAUGA \ In video footage recently unearthed on you-tube, the late Janis Joplin makes a 1969 appearance on the TV show “This Is Tom Jones”, where they do a great duet on the song “Raise Your Hand” (released by STAX star Eddie Floyd in ’67). It also serves…
TorontoMoon.ca 190215Fr | Shows for Friday, February 15, 2022
-Gary 17, TorontoMoon.ca [email protected] * [email protected] SHOW LISTINGS for Friday, February 15, 2022 Listings are organized by area in which the shows occur and within each area field shows are listed chronologically. For KEY to listings codes and schemata see note at end of shows list. Names of subscribers appear in bold, are underlined…
Show live music some love tonight too! | TorontoMoon.ca 190214Th | Shows for Thursday, February 14, 2022
TorontoMoon.ca 190213We | Shows for Wednesday, February 13, 2022
-Gary17, TorontoMoon.ca [email protected] * [email protected] SHOW LISTINGS for Wednesday, February 13, 2022 Listings are organized by area in which the shows occur and within each area field shows are listed chronologically. For KEY to listings codes and schemata see note at end of shows list. Names of subscribers appear in bold, are underlined and, where…
R.I.P. “Uncle” Herb Dale, treasured songwriter and music booster
I’m so very sad to learn of the passing on Sunday Feb. 10 of one of our longtime subscribers, an icon of a host on the open stage scene and very talented Country songwriter Herb Dale. According to life partner and musical accompanist Fran McCann, Herb passed “peacefully and at home with me, my daughter…
TorontoMoon.ca 190210Su | Shows for Sunday, February 10, 2022
-Gary 17, TorontoMoon.ca [email protected] * [email protected] SHOW LISTINGS for Sunday, February 10, 2022 Listings are organized by area in which the shows occur and within each area field shows are listed chronologically. For KEY to listings codes and schemata see note at end of shows list. Names of subscribers appear in bold, are underlined and,…
Hervé’s love of music will live on thanks to benefit tonight | TorontoMoon.ca 190209Sa | Shows for Saturday, February 09, 2022
\ TO CENTRAL \ Of all the qualities and characteristics for which the late keyboardist Hervé Basset, who passed unexpectedly in June of 2017. is remembered, his pure love of music is perhaps foremost in many minds. A longtime supporting subscriber to TorontoMoon and booster of the local scene, whether you knew him as a…
TorontoMoon.ca 190208Fr | Shows for Friday, February 08, 2022
-Gary 17, TorontoMoon.ca [email protected] * [email protected] SHOW LISTINGS for Friday, February 08, 2022 Listings are organized by area in which the shows occur and within each area field shows are listed chronologically. For KEY to listings codes and schemata see note at end of shows list. Names of subscribers appear in bold, are underlined and,…
More than Just Jillian at album release tonight | TorontoMoon.ca 190207Th | Shows for Thursday, February 07, 2022
McManus and Krewe have been Humping for 4 years tonight | TorontoMoon.ca 190206We | Shows for Wednesday, February 06, 2022
TorontoMoon.ca 190205Tu | Shows for Tuesday, February 05, 2022
-Gary 17, TorontoMoon.ca [email protected] * [email protected] SHOW LISTINGS for Tuesday, February 05, 2022 Listings are organized by area in which the shows occur and within each area field shows are listed chronologically. For KEY to listings codes and schemata see note at end of shows list. Names of subscribers appear in bold, are underlined…