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\ SCARBOROUGH \ A visitation with the family and memorial service for the late Mike Murphy will be held on Sunday, October 1 in the facility in Pine Hills Cemetery where he used to love riding his bike, the family has announced. Visitation will take place from 10-11 a.m. in the building at 625 Birchmount…
The following message now appears on the website of Hugh’s Room, the club at 2261 Dundas St. West that closed abruptly last week: “A committee has been struck and yesterday met to explore ways to restructure and make Hugh’s Room work in the future. “The focus is squarely on several priorities: •Re-opening the doors as…
\ TORONTO \ Drummer/singer Bill Hedefine will be carrying on a longstanding tradition tonight as he helms the open jam at Grossman’s Tavern despite the death of his longtime Blues guitar ace bandmate Brian Cober on Thursday. “We will be playing music this Sunday night,” Hedefine posted in the Grossman’s Sunday Night Jam group on…
\ TO CENTRAL \ Even more than how people treat you while you’re alive, perhaps, a measure of how one is truly loved can be taken in how they keep your memory once you’re gone. For Roots songwriter and sunny personality Christine Gaidies, who passed away much too young on July 17, today’s memorial jam…
Musicians will gather at two events this weekend to pay tribute to the late Gary (Mo’ Kauffey) Wickizer, who passed away Monday after a battle with cancer. Mo had been booked to perform at Moonshine Café in Oakville on Friday, March 18, so the club at 137 Kerr St. has now booked popular Blues artist…
\ TO EAST \ Dora Keogh jam host Julian Taylor has been a longtime friend of the late Bruce Adamson, who passed away December 15, since the guitarist became a member of J.T.’s Staggered Crossing band in 1997. So tonight he’s turning his weekly open stage in the club at 141 Danforth Ave. into a…
\ TO DOWNTOWN \ I was delighted to discover early today, only a few hours before it starts, that there’s another memorial/tribute concert tonight for the late James Gray, multi-instrumentalist and accompanist extraordinaire. It’ll be two years tonight (or early tomorrow) since Gray unexpectedly passed away from a heart attack overnight, the news spreading through…
It was our sad duty a few weeks ago to have to report the unexpected and sudden passing of drummer/poet Steve Hunt, well known to members of TO’s Rock and Metal scenes. A funeral was held on June 12 for the amiable and sardonically witty former member of several bands and regular at east-TO jams,…
\ ETOBICOKE \ It’s been over a month now since veteran crooner and genial entertainer Buddy “The Bear” Armstrong passed away suddenly December 22 while in hospital receiving dialysis treatment following a surgery also related to his chronic diabetes. As is so often the case with people who are mainstays of the music scene, his…
140927Sa Please note this article has been updated from its original posting due to an unintentional error of attribution made by your editor. Tonight’s show tribute to Nik Beat likely first of many \ TORONTO EAST \ Although a funeral and life celebration for the late Nik Beat (born Michael Barry) already took place earlier…
