Week of Events
Spring Roots: Kristin Lindell, Jesse Whiteley and Jess Knights
Spring Roots: Kristin Lindell, Jesse Whiteley and Jess Knights
Come celebrate Spring with live roots music featuring toe tapping original and swing tunes by Kristin Lindell and Jesse Whiteley on keys. We'll do some familiar favourites by the Kinks and the Beatles as well as some swing tunes and originals from our new album River of Light. We'll be sharing Lilac, a song about […]
Holy Oak Family Singers
Holy Oak Family Singers
Thom Gill and Luka Kuplowsky head up a rotating crew of Toronto artists for eclectic and intimate tribute nights. Reimagining the songbooks of lumaniraries (Arthur Russell, Judee Sill, Roches, The McGarrigles) and local legends alike. Basic Categories: Singer-songwriter, Folk
Man meets Bear – Bird City – Norvaiza
Man meets Bear – Bird City – Norvaiza
Three short mostly-solo sets from local(ish) musicians to warm the room on an early May night. Bird City is Guelph-based legend Jenny Mitchell (Jenny Omnichord, The Barmitzvah Brothers), Norvaiza is the solo project of Toronto-based Todd Macdonald (Silver Pools, The Winks), and Man meets Bear is also based in Toronto. Originally intended as an album […]
Clela Errington and Barbara Lynch
Clela Errington and Barbara Lynch
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 […]
Song Scaping: Whacky… Unconventional… LOVE
Song Scaping: Whacky… Unconventional… LOVE
SONG SCAPING The last of a four month residency at the Tranzac of workshops and performances by Andrea Kuzmich, intersecting traditional vocal polyphony, improvisation, and song. Like all past events, it starts with collective singing, where we'll teach some choruses of songs to have you join us in performance. Then a performance by Brenna MacCrimmon […]
Musical Oddities Tour
Musical Oddities Tour
Kyla Tilley (she/her) and Paul Cafcae (he/him), join forces to embark on a tour spanning 17 towns in 5 provinces of Eastern and Central Canada to promote their latest releases. This double-act program offers an eclectic mix of acoustic music influenced by a number of genres ranging from folk, to rockabilly, to prog rock and […]
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