TRANZAC is proud to be a part of Canadian Music Week.

Now in its 31st year, CANADIAN MUSIC WEEK is recognized as one of the premier entertainment events in North America focusing on the business of music. We bring together Sound Recording, New Media and Broadcast for one spectacular week of events… Combining informative, intensive conferences, cutting edge trade exhibition, award shows, film festival and Canada’s biggest New Music Festival. Canadian Music Fest spans 6 nights of performances, with 1,000 showcasing bands at more than 60 live music venues in downtown Toronto.

IF YOU’RE GOING TO ATTEND ANY INTERNATIONAL MUSIC CONVENTION THIS YEAR… Make it CMW 2013 – Where Music Means Business!

More, plus ticket info, at at cmw.net

WEDNESDAY MARCH 20 – KOOL FM Presents
7:30PM Bleachers
8:30PM Wool on Wolves
9:30PM Rend
10:30PM Flash Jam

THURSDAY MARCH 21
7:30PM Your Favorite Enemies
8:30PM Intergalactic Lovers
9:30PM Eastborough
10:30PM City of Glass

FRIDAY MARCH 22
7:30PM Hue
8:30PM Acres of Lions
9:30PM Angel at my Table
10:30PM Greater than Giants

SATURDAY MARCH 23
7:30PM Luke McMaster
8:30PM Esther Maria
9:30PM Six60
10:30PM Zameer

Friday 8 March, 10pm, FREE/pwyc

L CON Presents:

THE BALLADS REIMAGINED. A THREE PART SERIES:

03.08 at Tranzac – PART ONE : BASS, VOICE, + MACHINES : w/ The Mike Smith Group
03.14 at Holy Oak – PART TWO : STRINGS + VOICE : w/ Ryan Driver
03.16 at Saving Gigi – PART THREE : VOICE : w/ Isla Craig & Caylie Staples

ALL SHOWS WILL HAVE ENTIRELY DIFFERENT SETS & WILL BE PWYC.

*limited edition balsa wood gliders will be available for sale with download code.

Check out more at:

http://lconontheinternet.tumblr.com/post/43986406460/the-ballads-reimagined-a-three-part-series

TRANZAC Main Hall

advance tickets available online at somewheretheremusicfestival.eventbrite.ca

Friday 22 February:

7pm    talk: Somewhere There and its Public – Scott Thomson, founder of Somewhere There [bio]

8pm    Free Improvisation – Victor Bateman (bass) Allison Cameron (amplified objects) Christine Duncan (voice) Germaine Liu (percussion) [bios]

9pm    The Rent – Kyle Brenders (saxophones) Nick Fraser (drums) Wes Neal (bass) Scott Thomson (trombone) [bio]

Saturday 23 February > matinee

1pm    Medium/Format/Marker: La Jetée in Multiples – Nicholas Loess w/ Ben Grossman & Joe Sorbara [bios]

2pm    Free Improvisation- Tania Gill (piano, melodica) Ben Grossman (hurdy gurdy, percussion) Joe Sorbara (drums, percussion) [bios]

3pm    CCMC – Paul Dutton (sound singing) John Kamevaar (percussion, electronics) John Oswald (alto saxophone)
Michael Snow (piano, analogue synthesizer) [bios]

Saturday 23 February > evening

7pm    talk: Wondering About an Experimental Folk Music – Martin Arnold, Trent University [bio]

8pm    Martin Arnold & Friends – Martin Arnold (melodica, tenor banjo, electric guitar, etc.) Allison Cameron (keyboards, sound objects, banjo, etc.) Rob Clutton (string bass, guitar, etc.) Ryan Driver (analog synth, guitar, voice, etc.) Pete Johnston (string bass, octave mandolin, etc.) Stephen Parkinson (guitar, mandolin, keyboards, etc.) Doug Tielli (guitar, banjo, voice, etc.)

9pm    Ken Aldcroft’s Convergence Ensemble – Ken Aldcroft (guitar) Wes Neal (bass) Karen Ng (alto saxophone) Nicole Rampersaud (trumpet) Joe Sorbara (drums, percussion) Scott Thomson (trombone) [bio]

Sunday 24 February > matinee

2pm    talk/ discussion: Can Improvisation be Taught? – Casey Sokol, York University [bio]

4pm    Not The Wind, Not The Flag – Colin Fisher (guitar, trap set, bouzouki, ney, tenor saxohpone, guzheng, hulusi, percussion) Brandon Valdivia (trap set, mbira, slit drum, percussion) [bio]

Sunday 24 February > evening

7pm    Twelve X – Matt Miller (electronics) Neil Wiernik (electronics, bass)

8pm    Three Solos – Rob Clutton (bass) Paul Newman (tenor saxophone) Heather Segger (trombone) [bios]

9pm    Lina Allemano Four – Lina Allemano (trumpet) Andrew Downing (bass) Nick Fraser (drums) Brodie West (alto saxophone) [bio]

Little Sun (formerly Dry River Caravan) hits the Tranzac on Valentine’s Day!

Thursday 14 February, 10pm FREE/pwyc

with Jaron Freman-Fox and the Opposite of Everything

JARON FREEMAN-FOX

Winner of the 2012 Independent Music Awards ‘Instrumental song of the year’

Nominated for the 2011 Canadian Folk Music Awards: “Best Instrumental Solo Artist” and “Pushing the Boundaries”

International Songwriting Competition finalist

“The hyper-kinetic Jaron Freeman-Fox is the Jimi Hendrix of the violin. With the chops of a classical virtuoso and the soul of a wild-eyed punk, he plays world music in the truest sense of the word, leaping from Gypsy to Klezmer to Celtic to Country without skipping a beat.”
-Ottawa International Jazz Festival

https://www.facebook.com/jaronfreemanfox?fref=ts

LITTLE SUN

How many years it takes to the birth of the mountain? I ask because in fact we are in the midst of a revival. He was born into the world with wide eyes and smiled. No one knows that the road ahead will have to shop for a bunch of Grimey cats. One thing for sure, will never end the war, and we will sail back to the Giants, all the while eating a peach pie and sang songs for the future. Join us for a better tomorrow, and more beautiful today.

https://www.facebook.com/littlesunband?ref=ts&fref=ts

NAGs Players Present: Rapunzel

By Ginty Burns

Thursday Feb. 7, 8pm
Friday Feb. 8, 8pm
Saturday Feb. 9, 1:30pm and 8pm
Thursday Feb. 14, 8pm
Friday Feb. 15, 8pm
Saturday Feb. 16, 1:30pm and 8pm

Tranzac Main Hall, $12-$20, tickets at nagsplayers.com

A wicked witch catches a man stealing her rampion (you’ll have to come to the show to find out what that is!) and takes his baby girl, Rapunzel, as payment. She locks Rapunzel in a tower with no door or stairs, and the only way in or out is to climb up Rapunzel’s hair. A handsome prince comes along to save the day. But does he? This is panto-land, and as the audience cheers the goodies and boos the baddies, much can go wrong.

Barnyard Records releases 2 CDs:

Nick Fraser’s “Towns and Villages” featuring Tony Malaby
and  Martin/Wiens/Duncan/Lewis/Lozano “At Canterbury”
Tranzac Main Hall, Saturday 2 February, 9pm, $20 (includes both CDs)

Nick Fraser: “Towns and Villages”

“Towns and Villages” is the debut recording by the Nick Fraser Quartet. It features the leader on drums, New York saxophonist Tony Malaby, Andrew Downing on cello and Rob Clutton on double bass.

As a member of Drumheller, Lina Allemano Four, Peripheral Vision, and Deep Dark United, drummer Nick Fraser has been an active and engaging presence in the Toronto jazz community since he moved there from Ottawa in 1996. Tony Malaby is one of the world’s foremost saxophonists in this field of music. He has been based in New York since 1995 and has been a member of many notable jazz groups including Charlie Haden’s Liberation Orchestra, Paul Motian’s Electric Bebop Band, and Mark Helias’ Open Loose. He was named Musician of the Year (2004) by All About Jazz New York who called him “one of the most distinctive artists of his time.”

Jean Martin / Christine Duncan / Rainer Wiens / Frank Lozano / Jim Lewis: “At Canterbury”

“At Canterbury is a live studio recording, the first collaboration by these five artists; Rainer Wiens, one of the most original modern jazz guitar stylists in Canada, who has been hailed as a genius “composer, arranger and facilitator of world musical traditions”, Jean Martin and Christine Duncan of Barnyard Drama and the Element Choir, and long time musical co-conspirators Frank Lozano and Jim Lewis. Though most of these players have worked together in one combination or another over the years, this project, the brainchild of Lozano, is the free-spirited, grooving, cinematic, trippy, passionate, sometimes furious, sometimes soulful, resulting journey of this inaugural group adventure.

Thursday 31 January, 6pm

Tranzac Main Hall, $10/PWYC.

There’s been a lot of talk about the value of a Toronto casino. What are the economic benefits and the social costs?

If you’re interested in finding out, join us for a discussion on whether it’s a sure bet or a risky gamble.

Learn from a panel of some of Toronto’s most in-the-know pundits, who will explain the context, issues and rationale about having a casino in Toronto’s downtown, and what options are still on the table.

Breakout sessions will allow you to connect and collaborate with others to raise your own ideas about what direction Toronto needs to go in — and how its citizens can get the politicians there.

Register now to guarantee a seat, at http://topoli02.eventbrite.com/

…or join us and register at the door!

PANELISTS:
- Lis Pimentel: President of UNITE HERE Local 75
- Adam Vaughan: Toronto City Councillor for Ward 20, Trinity-Spadina
- Ken Greenberg: architect, urban designer, teacher, writer, former Director of Urban Design and Architecture for the City of Toronto and Principal of Greenberg Consultants

Full details and agenda on the registration page, here: http://topoli02.eventbrite.com/

Come celebrate Australia Day at the Tranzac on Saturday 26 January!

Featuring Calamity Royale and her Minions, with Joe Hall and special guests, performing Aussie tunes.

Plus, there’ll be Aussie beer available and complimentary Vegemite on toast!

8pm, FREE!

Bob Wiseman Album Release, with special guests:

Dwayne Gretzky
Drew Smith
Mary Margaret O’Hara
John Southworth
Mamabolo
Ronley Teper
Jim Guthrie
Magali Meagher
Ann Bourne
Jim Guthrie
and more!

Thursday 24 January.  Tranzac Main Hall.  8pm.  FREE/PWYC
www.bobwiseman.ca

Dream Awake

Tranzac Southern Cross Bar, Wednesday 16 January, 7:30pm.  FREE/PWYC

Internationally renowned 12-string guitarist Josh Wilkinson of Dream Awake fame will host a showcase of local talent this Wednesday 16th January at the Tranzac. Guest performers will include singer/songwriters Jay Pollock, Steve Gleason and More Than Breathing.

Don’t miss it!

Check out more at http://www.myspace.com/dreamawakemusic