\ TO EAST \ Where will you be when the lights go out tonight? When the electricity is dimmed or cut at 8:30 for the annual observance of Earth Hour, you couldn’t do much better than to be sharing the Living Room with Kayt Lucas! The versatile and engaging songwriter-mandolin/guitar player and singer and her…
A masterful musician, composer and arranger-producer (for which he won a Juno award in 1998), Tony Quarrington creates musical works of enduring substance that go beyond the idea of a concept album to nudge at opus territory. We told you previously about one of his powerfully elegant concept projects, the six-song musical theatre composition “Emily’s…
\ TO CENTRAL \ Songwriting, like any art, is an evolutionary and sometimes risky process and Carmen Toth appears now to be at that stage where she’s ready to take chances developing a new style and persona as she celebrates the release of her latest recorded product tonight. Her earlier compositions, as heard on two…
-by Beverly Kreller, SPEAK Music \ TO WEST \ Think Earth, Wind and Fire meets Enrique Iglesias, The Supremes meet Carlos Santana, and you have Toronto band The Achromatics. On their debut album, being released tonight at Hugh’s Room (2261 Dundas St. W.) They move effortlessly between R&B, Blues, Soul, Pop, tasty Funk, Jazz and…
by Sarah French Toronto based guitarist / singer-songwriter Jake Chisholm is set to release his new cd, Diamond In A Coalmine at Dakota Tavern on April 11. Inspired by classic Blues, Soul and Rock, Chisholm’s tasteful yet intricate guitar work and songwriting evokes vivid and shameless tales of love, lust, and lessons learned. An in-demand session player on the TO Jazz…
She’s bright, buoyant, funny and deep and crafts songs with feel-good music but lyrics that are sometimes a bit abstruse, other times feel ironic or even pointed, but that also on occasion can be poignantly sweet or sentimental. It’s quite a range to pack into one 9-song album, but on Chances Are I Like You…
