Ayal Senior & Friends rez returns in May for a special Mother's Day Edition, #5 for 2024! Accompanying Senior as usual is the tremendous Kurt Newman whose recent LP, 'Cagey Doves' by the Country Phasers is an essential ripper for '24! Grip that action here: https://rat-drifting.bandcamp.com/album/cagey-doves Senior & Newman are getting ready to drop a […]
Wheeee! Arranging ensembles is so much fun, and this group is one you do not want to miss. Join Michael Palumbo and his friends as they improvise together for one night only at the Tranzac on May 11 at 10pm. Michael Palumbo & Friends #5 Saturday, May 11 at 10pm - PWYC Tranzac Club - […]
Low Country Hill is the moniker for Paul Hogeterp's soulful alt-folk project and is a loose translation of his Dutch-Frisian family name. It’s a fitting metaphor for what music can be. Terps are small hills where people once settled to be protected from surging floods. Songwriting serves as Hogeterp’s modest perch from where he gets […]
Song Experiment is a monthly song lab hosted by Cassie Norton to provide songwriters a venue for explorations into different approaches to song-writing, instrumentation, arrangement or all three. Drawing/colouring supplies and big banner paper will be provided for all doodlers, so you can collaborate too! This month features a small group of seniors and kids […]
I'm excited to present the next edition of the Musica Universalis monthly! This time around we have Derrick Vellla, from the band tomb mold, conjuring the spirits of Alex de Grassi, Michael hedges with some beautiful solo fingerstyle guitar.. and then a brand new ensemble formation to animate the improv/jazz music of Colin Fisher.. featuring […]
With her palette of acoustic folk instruments, Collette whittles out of her imagination beautiful song gems. She brings them to you wrapped in the exciting package of her band of seasoned masters, The Savants: Rebecca Campbell(Jane Siberry, Ian Tamblyn...),John Switzer John Switzer(Jane Siberry, Vance Gilbert, Katherine Wheatley etc.³) Martin Worthy (Joe Hall, Paul Quarrington), Tim […]
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.
Strangetooth is a Toronto based bluegrass band known for their rich vocal harmonies, stellar picking, and eclectic song choices.
Never Was Never Was has been many different bands and, in its current form, it remains many different bands: a modular ensemble featuring Brandon Davis and Adrian Russouw on basses, Madeleine Ertel on trumpet, Kelvin Mansaray on violin, Naomi McCarroll-Butler on alto saxophone and clarinet, Racha Moukalled on vibraphone, Kae Murphy on trumpet and woodwinds, […]
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