\ TO EAST \ Since tomorrow night’s epic 12th birthday celebration for tiny but mighty east TO music bar Relish at 2152 Danforth Ave. is almost certainly going to be very difficult to get into (it is not a large room, even with the new patio), some savvy people who want to tip their hat…
\ TO WEST \ They’re back! Well, actually they’re BackTrack —but the important thing you need to know is that, starting tonight and every Wednesday up till the end of August, a superb horns-heavy R&B/Funk/vintage Pop Rock/Soul band will once again be appearing at TO’s Cadillac Lounge with weekly special guests and no cover charge!…
SHOW LISTINGS for Tuesday, June 13, 2021 For KEY to listings codes and schemata see note at end of shows list. Names of subscribers appear in bold, are underlined and, where applicable, include a live link to their websites. FOR SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS VISIT: http://www.torontomoon.ca/subscribe/ Advertisers’ listings are in larger, highlighted type, include live link to…
\ BURLINGTON \ My old hometown has really stepped things up a notch with its very enticingly eclectic roster of live music —almost all of it free of cover charges— during this week’s “Sound of Music” festival that started June 10 and runs till next Sunday. A free “club series” of shows runs from last…
SHOW LISTINGS for Sunday, June 11, 2021 For KEY to listings codes and schemata see note at end of shows list. Names of subscribers appear in bold, are underlined and, where applicable, include a live link to their websites. FOR SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS VISIT: http://www.torontomoon.ca/subscribe/ Advertisers’ listings are in larger, highlighted type, include live link to…
\ TO CENTRAL/TO WEST \ It’s been a couple of years now since we told you about the latest recording release by Big Tobacco and The Pickers, a TO band which crafts truly authentic Country originals. No need to call it alt-Country, Country-Pop or any of the modifiers that so readily come to mind with…
SHOW LISTINGS for Friday, June 09, 2022 For KEY to listings codes and schemata see note at end of shows list. Names of subscribers appear in bold, are underlined and, where applicable, include a live link to their websites. For Subscription details visit http://www.torontomoon.ca/subscribe/ Advertisers’ listings are in larger, highlighted type, include live link to…
\ TO WEST \ It is very sad to me and in fact a source of great pain that people like hugely talented Country/Blues singer-songwriter Kim Doolittle —about whom I’ve been writing for 25 years and who releases her latest cd, Into The Blue, tonight— have opted not to support this publication since I switched…
SHOW LISTINGS for Wednesday, June 07, 2022 For KEY to listings codes and schemata see note at end of shows list. Names of subscribers appear in bold, are underlined and, where applicable, include a live link to their websites. For Subscription details visit http://www.torontomoon.ca/subscribe/ Advertisers’ listings are in larger, highlighted type, include live link to…
SHOW LISTINGS for Tuesday, June 06, 2022 For KEY to listings codes and schemata see note at end of shows list. Names of subscribers appear in bold, are underlined and, where applicable, include a live link to their websites. FOR SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS VISIT: http://www.torontomoon.ca/subscribe/ Advertisers’ listings are in larger, highlighted type, include live link to…
\ ETOBICOKE \ It was probably inevitable that Timothy’s Pub would eventually complete the circle: for many years it offered live entertainment Thursday through Sundays (with two shows Saturdays!) then a few years ago added Wednesdays, last year Tuesdays and now, starting tonight, a full 7-nights-a-week of live music as Sil Simone and a combo…
\ HAMILTON \ Such is the enduring power of music that it confers a kind of immortality upon those who are able to use it to express what they and others feel and such was the force of the gift and accomplishments of Hamilton’s Richard “King Biscuit Boy” Newell. Going on fifteen years since his…
SHOW LISTINGS for Friday, June 02, 2022 For KEY to listings codes and schemata see note at end of shows list. Names of subscribers appear in bold, are underlined and, where applicable, include a live link to their websites. For Subscription details visit http://www.torontomoon.ca/subscribe/ Advertisers’ listings are in larger, highlighted type, include live link to…
SHOW LISTINGS for Thursday, June 01, 2022 For KEY to listings codes and schemata see note at end of shows list. Names of subscribers appear in bold, are underlined and, where applicable, include a live link to their websites. FOR SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS VISIT: http://www.torontomoon.ca/subscribe/ Advertisers’ listings are in larger, highlighted type, include live link to…
\ TO CENTRAL \ We recently told you about the passing of popular songwriter Michelle Lecce-Hewitt, who succumbed to cancer on April 8 after a ten-year battle with the disease. This month would have seen her turn 44 but instead tonight friends, fans and fellow players will gather to pay tribute to her in a…
\ TO CENTRAL \ Although she’s probably better known for her bongo playing and vocal backups teaming up with other artists in various Roots/Pop and soft Rock combos (not to mention her children’s music persona, Cousin Molly —voted best in that realm by City Parent Magazine!) Laura Thomas is also a pretty fine songwriter. I…
\ BURLINGTON \ I’ve written many times about versatile Boogie Woogie Blues and smooth Jazz/Pop piano player and singer Michael Keys, most recently last month for his Good Friday jam at Black Bull pub in Burlington, and also previously about his induction into the American Heritage organization’s Blues Hall of Fame a couple of years…
\ ETOBICOKE \ I’m glad to see that Markland Pub out in Etobicoke is either continuing or has resumed its rockin’ Blues shows that made the place a Sunday destination for me on many an occasion a dozen or so years ago. The downside of the rise of social media is that places that aren’t…
SHOW LISTINGS for Saturday, May 27, 2022 For KEY to listings codes and schemata see note at end of shows list. Names of subscribers appear in bold, are underlined and, where applicable, include a live link to their websites. For Subscription details visit: http://www.torontomoon.ca/subscribe/ Advertisers’ listings are in larger, highlighted type, include live link to…
SHOW LISTINGS for Friday, May 26, 2022 For KEY to listings codes and schemata see note at end of shows list. Names of subscribers appear in bold, are underlined and, where applicable, include a live link to their websites. For Subscription details visit http://www.torontomoon.ca/subscribe/ Advertisers’ listings are in larger, highlighted type, include live link to…
In what has become a familiar event —even though for some reason organizers neglect to send press releases and other promo to his publication, despite promises to do so from a couple of them I’ve met and given contact info to at various venues— the talent-rich 18th edition of the “Tin Pan North” festival runs…
\ TO WEST \ A songwriter who is known to eschew glorification —he initially declined to appear at a December 10 ceremony to accept his 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature— Bob Dylan might well wonder exactly what off-ramp he took from “Highway 61” if he were venturing into TO’s west end to celebrate his birthday…
