Monthly Archives: June 2016

Laura Hubert getting gristy at Grossman’s before Jazz festival show | TorontoMoon.ca 160630Th | Shows for Thurs. June 30, 2021

June 30, 2021

\ TO DOWNTOWN \ As I’ve written many times since March of 2013, I believe effervescent and emotive singer Laura Hubert and her longtime piano accompanist virtuoso Peter Hill have long deserved more exposure and better time slots at TO’s most enduring Jazz room, The Rex, which was then finally starting to happen along with…

June 29, 2021

SHOW LISTINGS for Wednesday, June 29, 2021 Listings are organized by area in which the shows occur and within each area field shows are listed chronologically. Listings preceded by an asterisk (*) are repeating weekly events. (Double asterisk indicates repeating event with different hosts/guest/etc.) Events preceded by question mark (?) usually take place but have…

June 28, 2021

SHOW LISTINGS for Tuesday, June 28, 2021 Listings are organized by area in which the shows occur and within each area field shows are listed chronologically. Listings preceded by an asterisk (*) are repeating weekly events. (Double asterisk indicates repeating event with different hosts/guest/etc.). Admission prices followed by a slash and minus (/-) after the…

June 27, 2021

SHOW LISTINGS for Monday, June 27, 2021 Listings are organized by area in which the shows occur and within each area field shows are listed chronologically. Listings preceded by an asterisk (*) are repeating weekly events. (Double asterisk indicates repeating event with different hosts/guest/etc.). Events preceded by question mark (?) usually take place but have…

June 26, 2021

\ TO EAST \ Sunday afternoons at Hirut on Danforth Ave. continue to be a delightful experience under the tutelage of musically eclectic and very affable host Nicola Vaughan. For over three years now, as I’ve mentioned on several occasions, she’s been shepherding a range of talents onto the music-loving Ethiopian restaurant’s nicely appointed stage…

June 25, 2021

SHOW LISTINGS for Saturday, June 25, 2021 Listings are organized by area in which the shows occur and within each area field shows are listed chronologically. Listings preceded by an asterisk (*) are repeating weekly events. (Double asterisk indicates repeating event with different hosts/guest/etc.). Events preceded by question mark (?) usually take place but have…

June 24, 2021

\ TO EAST \ When four-bassoon instrumental band Das Fagott Mannschaft played at Relish around this time last year, I went to great pains to explain to any not so cunning non-linguists amongst the readership that they weren’t actually a holdover from the PRIDE parade that had taken place the previous day. Even though PRIDE…

June 23, 2021

Bri-anne Swan Yellow Rose Cabaret poster

\ TORONTO MIDTOWN \ When someone deliberately plans to take another’s life and then does so, it is rightly called a murder. But when a government does so by executing someone, it’s euphemistically referred to as “capital punishment,” an abhorrent practice still sanctioned by law in some jurisdictions, such as the State of Texas. While…

June 23, 2021

June 22, 2021

\ TO WEST \ Wednesdays at Cadillac Lounge in Parkdale have a lot of flavour this summer as every week till the end of August the 3-horns and 3-singer BackTrack Motown band is appearing on the club’s main stage to put on 7-11 shows that utilize special guests and opening acts to give things an…

June 21, 2021

\ TO DOWNTOWN \ I’m sure witty and intelligent songwriter Lynn Harrison is wondering where the time went as she gets ready for tonight’s first anniversary show of her monthly “Bridge” open mic series at Tranzac Club in the heart of The Annex area. The first few editions of the event she hosts took place…

June 20, 2021

Although originally born south of the border in Detroit and maintaining his home for the past 15 years in Nova Scotia, it might be more accurate to describe blues icon Morgan Davis as a resident of the world. He first came to Canada in 1968 to avoid the U.S. military draft that was at that…

June 20, 2021

Review of 'Painkiller' from to-nite 312, January 15-28, 2004, part 1

Gary 17’s review of Morgan Davis album Painkiller released in late 2003. Click on an image to read in separate window with zoom capability.

June 19, 2021

SHOW LISTINGS for Sunday, June 19, 2021 Listings are organized by area in which shows take place and listed chronologically within each area field. Listings preceded by an asterisk (*) are repeating weekly events. (Double asterisk indicates repeating event with different hosts/guest/etc.). Events preceded by question mark (?) usually take place but have not been…

June 18, 2021

\ TO EAST \ Regular readers already know we’re big fans of perky and pretty Pop songwriter Carmen Toth, who also gigs under the name Social Potion and has an eclectic bag of ear and dance friendly original tunes, as well as carrying off Fleetwood Mac and other covers with passion and precision. But despite…

June 17, 2021

\ BURLINGTON \ As I was happy to discover last summer during a performance by the reunited band the Spoons at a Canada Day celebration in east TO, Gordon Deppe is still as vibrant and entertaining as he’s always been. The group and songwriter that gave the world “Old Emotions”, “Nova Heart” and “Arias and…

June 16, 2021

\ TO EAST \ Eleven years ago today owner Joanne Clayton first opened the doors of her east-TO tapas eatery Relish, which although it has consistently excellent food has become even better known for its live music menu, which includes a wide range of acts performing up to ten shows a week on a professionally…

June 15, 2021

\ TO DOWNTOWN \ As it prepares to wrap its 49th season in two weeks (with, once again, The Curries husband-wife duo closing things out on June 29) the weekly Fat Albert’s Wednesday night coffee house open stage remains a premier event for songwriters to share their talents with their peers. As we’ve told you…

June 14, 2021

SHOW LISTINGS for Tuesday, June 14, 2021 Listings are organized by area in which the shows occur and within each area field shows are listed chronologically. Listings preceded by an asterisk (*) are repeating weekly events. (Double asterisk indicates repeating event with different hosts/guest/etc.). Admission prices followed by a slash and minus (/-) after the…

June 13, 2021

\ TO EAST \ It was great to see big-voiced Roots/Country songwriter Murray Powell getting back into fine form at his set earlier this year as a feature guest at the weekly M-Factor Mondays showcase hosted by Elana Harte at Old Nick Pub on Danforth Ave. a spit east of Broadview Avenue. As we told…

June 12, 2021

SHOW LISTINGS for Sunday, June 12, 2021 Listings are organized by area in which shows take place and listed chronologically within each area field. Listings preceded by an asterisk (*) are repeating weekly events. (Double asterisk indicates repeating event with different hosts/guest/etc.). Events preceded by question mark (?) usually take place but have not been…

June 11, 2022

Sax man Baumann & bassist McManus of Junction City All-Stars -GARY 17

With no fewer than five music festivals going on today in the part of TO west of Bathurst Street and four of them one-day affairs happening on outside street stages, a lot of people are hoping that the weather forecasters are correct when they predict the overnight rain will ease around noon. One of the…