Week of Events
Purim Celebrations
Purim Celebrations
Celebrate the Jewish festival of Purim with Makom and Toronto Partnership Minyan! Featuring evening & morning readings of the megillah (scroll of Esther), adult party, festive meal, childcare, kids' megillah reading, family carnival, and dedicated parties for middle-schoolers and for high-school teens. Registration required.
Precious Little Presents
Precious Little Presents
Precious Little Presents: Round the table we turn Contraptions and shenanigans. Storage and porridge, song-title geography. Improvisation and Omni-visualation. We're out in the workshop, hammer and saw, Phonometers in hand we measure and draw. Erasing the borders, the box opens wide. Where is the door? Turn it all on its side. David Woodhead / electric […]
Conversation Jazz Jam
Conversation Jazz Jam
Conversation - a Tranzac Jam is a weekly jam that invites musicians and dancers into a safe space where the only rule is be in the moment while creating music in community with others. Each week a house band starts off the night with a 45 minute set of music and then the floor is […]
Terry Jones
Terry Jones
A lifetime member and Columbia recording artist with the Perth County Conspiracy, Terry Jones has played innumerable concerts over 50 years, with various versions of this band, at small venues, concert halls and universities. In 1970 Terry played lead guitar in a musical, "The Line of Least Existence", alongside Danny Devito, Judd Hirsch, and members of The […]
The 24th Annual Banjo Special
The 24th Annual Banjo Special
A showcase of Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Irish banjo styles played by four of Canada's top pickers. A fun night and a Toronto tradition! In its twenty-fourth year, The Banjo Special once again brings together 4 of Canada’s top players to celebrate this wonderful instrument. Come and join Chris Coole, Arnie Naiman, Brian Taheny, Chris Quinn, […]
Drones Over Dufferin
Drones Over Dufferin
Join Drones Over Dufferin for a night of improvised, ambient music. This ongoing musical collaboration between brothers David and Duncan MacKinnon features guitar and pedal steel combined with digital and reel-to-reel tape loops.
Tranzac Open Stage
Tranzac Open Stage
The Tranzac open stage is every Monday in the Southern Cross room. All are welcome! Start: 7pm Sign up: 6:30pm 8 minute slots (or two songs) The open stage is a safe space in accordance with the Tranzac code of conduct.
Furniture Music
Toronto Zine Library Open Hours
Solitary Shrew
Toronto Folk Singers Club
Nick Fraser Presents
Nick Fraser Presents
NICK FRASER PRESENTS (JAZZ, IMPROVISED MUSIC): Nick Fraser has been an active and engaging presence in the Toronto new jazz and improvised music community since he moved there from Ottawa in 1995. He works with and presents with a veritable “who’s who” of Canadian jazz and improvised music. Downbeat Magazine: “Drummer Nick Fraser is a […]
The SPECIAL INTEREST Group
The SPECIAL INTEREST Group
the SPECIAL INTEREST group brings a new rhythm to songs of hope & struggle …. Infusing songs from civil rights, gospel, folk and protest movements with elements of folk, blues, rock, R&B, jazz, reggae & ska. Songs of social change, from picket lines and protest marches, addressing contemporary issues from peace to climate change to […]
Shab-e She’r
Shab-e She’r
Shab-e She’r Poetry Nowruz Celebration Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night) XCIX Canada’s most diverse & brave poetry reading + open mic series Featured poets: Hanan Hazime & Joshua Chris Bouchard + Open Mic for poetry in any language Host: Bänoo Zan Time: Wednesday, March 27, 2024 Place: Living Room, Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, ON […]
Comhaltas Irish Slow Session
Ronley Teper & the Lipliners
Ronley Teper & the Lipliners
Children at heart who love comedic, poetic, theatric, yet at times serious storytelling alongside truly magical music, should prepare themselves for the surprising world of Ronley Teper. Teper invites a rotating roster of some of the finest musicians to publicly improvise around her storytelling that cycle through many influences from folk, funk, jazz, cabaret, cinematic, […]
Strangetooth
Strangetooth
Strangetooth is a Toronto based bluegrass band known for their rich vocal harmonies, stellar picking, and eclectic song choices.
Serotonin: A Feel Good Comedy Show
Serotonin: A Feel Good Comedy Show
The last Thursday of every month, hosts Surer Qaly and Chris Middleton invite their friends to do some stand up at the Tranzac. It'll start around 8 pm, but you should get there for 7:30 pm just in case. It will be a good time, promise.
Crosby/Dwyer/Melanson/Ng
Crosby/Dwyer/Melanson/Ng
This new quartet returns for Karen Ng's Tranzac monthly Ted Crosby - sax, clarinet Ben Dwyer - bass Phil Melanson - drums Karen Ng - sax, clarinet
Saturday Bluegrass Casual
Jamzac
Days of Grace – flute and guitar duo
Days of Grace – flute and guitar duo
Days of Grace returns to the Southern Cross for an afternoon of original, contemporary folk songs set to the sweet sounds of voice, guitar, flute, and recorder. The show will feature lots of new songs along with favourites from their last show.
Tavern of Song #12 “Losing My Religion”
Tavern of Song #12 “Losing My Religion”
Tavern of Song began in the summer of 2022 as a shared endeavour between the father/daughter programming duo, Jim and Meredith Shedden. Their goal was to host a regular concert series at their neighbourhood pub that promoted up-and-coming musicians, highlighted established members of the Toronto live music scene, and fostered community between audiences and performers, […]
Michael Balazo: Work in Progress for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Tranzac Presents: Ryan Driver’s Big 5-0 ft. The Ryan Driver Sextet
Tranzac Presents: Ryan Driver’s Big 5-0 ft. The Ryan Driver Sextet
Please join us for the following three things that will happen simultaneously. • A celebration of 50 years of Ryan Driver living! • A celebration of 25 years of the Ryan Driver Sextet (formerly Quintet / Quartet) performing! • A special performance of the Ryan Driver Sextet with a star-studded lineup of special guests! The […]
Chris Pruden with Isaiah Farahbakhsh
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