It’s another one of those super Saturday afternoons on Roncesvalles Ave. in TO’s west end just south of The Junction, Star-calibre guests at Bill Heffernan’s weekly 5-8 show at Gate 403 (403 Roncesvalles) and the return of the Laura Hubert Band 4-7 to the Inter Steer a few doors away, will lend a festival atmosphere to the strip. (And another show across the street at The Local just makes it even better!)

Heffernan welcomes a pair of artists performing together for the first time ever: veteran multi-instrumentalist Richard “Poppa K” Keelan, who was once a member of Perth County Conspiracy and these days is a fixture at Junction-area music events; and hugely inventive and daring multi-genre guitarist Michael Keith, who last time I saw him was experimenting with a 3-string ukelele doing a Turkish-Blues fusion music of his own invention. The mind boggles to think what this pair might get up to!