UPDATE: Information about Mike’s funeral services and memorial jam as well as the memorial music endowment page set up by the family can be found in a separate post published and sent to subscribers Friday Sept. 29. \ SCARBOROUGH \ A Scarborough guitar player “with a heart of gold” will be spending eternity in his…
\ TO DOWNTOWN \ A bittersweet tradition that is now five years old, the annual benefit for the Amy Louie Grossman’s Music Scholarship commemorates the life and spirit of the spunky daughter of the TO music club’s owners. Amy Louie was a fixture behind the bar at Grossman’s from a young age until shortly before…
Bass player, soundman, guitarist and sometimes bands promoter/booker Tommy Flannigan wasn’t always easy to like. But he was impossible not to love. The reedy, feisty music warrior, who was 63, passed away in hospital in east Toronto Sat. October 22 after a short, vicious battle with liver cancer. He had complained of a sore back…
\ TORONTO NORTH \ A longstanding destination room for at least two generations of students, Toronto North locals and live music aficionados, The Unicorn Pub at 175 Eglinton Ave. has closed its doors. According to a post on a Leaside-based Facebook group the club closed one day last week, apparently because developers who have bought…
It was our sad duty a few weeks ago to have to report the unexpected and sudden passing of drummer/poet Steve Hunt, well known to members of TO’s Rock and Metal scenes. A funeral was held on June 12 for the amiable and sardonically witty former member of several bands and regular at east-TO jams,…
