SHOW LISTINGS for Tuesday, May 23, 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 Monday, May 22, 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 \ A little article I wrote in my to-nite magazine in August of 2002 about bass player and singer Kenny Forde, who was remembered Sunday May 21 at a private service following his recent passing at 52 years of age, perhaps summed up how he was perceived by many on the Etobicoke music…
SHOW LISTINGS for Sunday, May 21, 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…
“May 2-4” long weekends ain’t what they used to be, and for live music fans that’s a good thing. Time was, even ten years ago, that almost every club that normally booked live music would shut down their stages for the duration. But with the rise of the “staycation” (thanks to insane price rises, zealous…
SHOW LISTINGS for Friday, May 19, 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…
\ BURLINGTON \ Some longtime readers may, like me, initially be a little confused when they hear that “SEBB is hosting a Blues-Rock jam tonight at Black Swan.” They may assume that the host of the Monday night open stage at the Danforth Ave. tavern in TO East, Sebastian Agnello (aka Seb to fans and…
\ TO WEST \ Tonight, sad to say, is the third-last installment of the popular weekly “Hump Night Blues” shows happening Wednesdays at a west TO billiard hall/music venue, as the property has been sold and the new owners want a clean slate to start their occupancy on June 1 we’re told. It’s been a…
SHOW LISTINGS for Tuesday, May 16, 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 Monday, May 15, 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 \ For those of us for whom the pain of losing our mothers before we were ready to still stings —in my case even after a decade and for others I know, much longer— Mother’s Day is a bittersweet occasion. I read somewhere once the observation that “you never really get over losing…
SHOW LISTINGS for Saturday, May 13, 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 \ It might have been at Grossman’s Tavern that I first heard Erin Ford play going back to what must be getting on close to two decades ago now. It’s been a long time since then but the feisty and fiercely talented Blues-Rock guitarist, singer and composer is back there for an…
SHOW LISTINGS for Thursday, May 11, 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 \ One of the things I really enjoyed about hosting open mics for about 25 years in TO was hearing and meeting “new” talents who in many cases were accomplished veterans but who had been flying under my radar along with that of many other people. One good example of those “discoveries”…
SHOW LISTINGS for Tuesday, May 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 UPTOWN \ The fact that there’s no mention of rental arrears on the bailiff’s notice that is plastered to the door at the Seven44 club (the former Chick ‘n’ Deli at 744 Mount Pleasant Rd —hence its name for the past few years) is perhaps a hopeful sign that whatever dispute they’re having…
\ TO EAST \ If you’re of a certain age you’ll remember as a teenager a small handheld device that at the time was a veritable miracle of technology: the transistor radio. This small invention (about the size of a modern smart phone) was the forerunner of today’s far more sophisticated yet perhaps not ultimately…
SHOW LISTINGS for Saturday, May 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…
SHOW LISTINGS for Friday, May 05, 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 EAST \ A group that just sort of appeared out of nowhere (as far as I was aware) six months ago, High Court County seems on a fast track to prominence on the TO bar scene these days, having played several disparate venues across the GTA in that time with their Country-Blues and…
\ TO EAST \ It’s never easy keeping an open mic going for more than a few months or maybe a year or two. For various reasons people either get bored or have life changes, so attendance can be quite variable and often trails off when the novelty wears off after a few months. To…
