In Barbara’s music you can hear echoes of jazz, folk, blues, barrel-house boogie and old-time-religion hymns. She writes story telling songs, offering up intimate portraits of people's lives played in the old blues style on a parlour guitar or upright piano. A singer songwriter and interpreter, Clela’s vibrant blend of folk and jazz creates the […]
LuA (Maryem Tollar and Shameema Soni) have been recording at Canterbury Music Company with Ernie Tollar, Waleed Abdulhamid and Naghmeh Farahmand. Come and check out their original songs at the intimate Southern Cross at The Tranzac (Toronto) that will be on their debut recording to be released in 2024 PWYC
Join Dennis and Ross as they celebrate the timeless collaborations of Paul Desmond and Jim Hall. Featuring Hiro Tanaka on bass and Jackson Haynes on drums.
Howard Gladstone is a singer/songwriter with a residency on the “first Sunday of every month” in the Southern Cross Room. He performs original material in the folk, roots, jazz, vein along with stellar accompanists Tony Quarrington (guitar) and Bob Cohen (bass). Most months also feature a Special guest performer to add spice and interest and […]
Bill Wood’s songs have been described as “what happens when 30 years of songwriting, honed over decades of hard life experiences, meet the craftsmanship of a career musician who doesn’t know what it means to compromise.” Bill Wood and Shelley Coopersmith perform original songs that range from heartbreaking ballads to classic country shuffle. You’ll swear […]
Dave Clark Presents! showcases fantastic local artists who perform their original music. Each event is a surprise gift of sonic goodies for you to behold. See upcoming brilliance and veteran magic perform for your pleasure.
Fortunato Durutti Marinetti is the poetic jazz rock project of Daniel Colussi. Within is weird folk by Chris, Judith and Stefan. What could go wrong?
If you ever wanted Dun-Dun Land without the Dun-Dun, you're in luck this month--less lucky was the Dun-Dun Man himself, who has to undergo emerg dental surgery earlier that same day, but in his stead is his old friend Matt Collins, a.k.a. Spruce Needles, whose batch of slide-blues tunes should be a great complement to […]
jazz and improvised music Josh Cole - double bass Rob Clutton - double bass Ryan Driver - synth Blake Howard - percussion
A note from Brodie West: For my monthly at the Tranzac I will often schedule my quintet called The Brodie West Quintet which is Tania Gill piano, Josh Cole bass, Nick Fraser drums, Evan Cartwright drums and myself. Sometimes the drummers are substituted up and in that case it's usually Phil Melanson who is there […]
Never Was is a quartet named after a curious sentence from The You Train by science fiction and fantasy writer, N.K. Jemisin. Featuring Madeleine Ertel on trumpet, Naomi McCarroll-Butler on alto saxophone and clarinets, Patrick O'Reilly on guitar, and Joe Sorbara on drums and percussion, the group explores original music in the Black American Creative […]
Hosted by Kurt Newman, this monthly series creates a space for experiments in country and folk music forms, which can range from more or less straight-ahead to more or less psychedelic. Between sets: comedy from the best of Toronto's left-of-center comedians.
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