\ TO CENTRAL \ We recently told you about the passing of popular songwriter Michelle Lecce-Hewitt, who succumbed to cancer on April 8 after a ten-year battle with the disease. This month would have seen her turn 44 but instead tonight friends, fans and fellow players will gather to pay tribute to her in a…
\ By Donna Lypchuk for TorontoMoon.ca \ The news on “the longest street” is that the Hard Rock Café at Dundas Square (279 Yonge Street) is closing at the end of May 2017. This is not that much of a heart-wrenching handwringer for those of us who barely cared in the first place when it…
\ TO CENTRAL \ Although she’s probably better known for her bongo playing and vocal backups teaming up with other artists in various Roots/Pop and soft Rock combos (not to mention her children’s music persona, Cousin Molly —voted best in that realm by City Parent Magazine!) Laura Thomas is also a pretty fine songwriter. I…
\ BURLINGTON \ I’ve written many times about versatile Boogie Woogie Blues and smooth Jazz/Pop piano player and singer Michael Keys, most recently last month for his Good Friday jam at Black Bull pub in Burlington, and also previously about his induction into the American Heritage organization’s Blues Hall of Fame a couple of years…
\ ETOBICOKE \ I’m glad to see that Markland Pub out in Etobicoke is either continuing or has resumed its rockin’ Blues shows that made the place a Sunday destination for me on many an occasion a dozen or so years ago. The downside of the rise of social media is that places that aren’t…
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SHOW LISTINGS for Friday, May 26, 2022 For KEY to listings codes and schemata see note at end of shows list. Names of subscribers appear in bold, are underlined and, where applicable, include a live link to their websites. For Subscription details visit http://www.torontomoon.ca/subscribe/ Advertisers’ listings are in larger, highlighted type, include live link to…
In what has become a familiar event —even though for some reason organizers neglect to send press releases and other promo to his publication, despite promises to do so from a couple of them I’ve met and given contact info to at various venues— the talent-rich 18th edition of the “Tin Pan North” festival runs…
By Donna Lypchuk for TorontoMoon.ca Mary had a little lamb —but not for dinner in Greektown with a bit of cumin, tzatziki and a nice Pinot Noir. Instead, she brought one to school in the 1830s, where it made the children laugh and play in Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA, which to this day still only…
\ TO WEST \ A songwriter who is known to eschew glorification —he initially declined to appear at a December 10 ceremony to accept his 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature— Bob Dylan might well wonder exactly what off-ramp he took from “Highway 61” if he were venturing into TO’s west end to celebrate his birthday…
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\ ETOBICOKE \ A little article I wrote in my to-nite magazine in August of 2002 about bass player and singer Kenny Forde, who was remembered Sunday May 21 at a private service following his recent passing at 52 years of age, perhaps summed up how he was perceived by many on the Etobicoke music…
SHOW LISTINGS for Sunday, May 21, 2022 For KEY to listings codes and schemata see note at end of shows list. Names of subscribers appear in bold, are underlined and, where applicable, include a live link to their websites. FOR SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS VISIT: http://www.torontomoon.ca/subscribe/ Advertisers’ listings are in larger, highlighted type, include live link to…
“May 2-4” long weekends ain’t what they used to be, and for live music fans that’s a good thing. Time was, even ten years ago, that almost every club that normally booked live music would shut down their stages for the duration. But with the rise of the “staycation” (thanks to insane price rises, zealous…
SHOW LISTINGS for Friday, May 19, 2022 For KEY to listings codes and schemata see note at end of shows list. Names of subscribers appear in bold, are underlined and, where applicable, include a live link to their websites. For Subscription details visit http://www.torontomoon.ca/subscribe/ Advertisers’ listings are in larger, highlighted type, include live link to…
\ BURLINGTON \ Some longtime readers may, like me, initially be a little confused when they hear that “SEBB is hosting a Blues-Rock jam tonight at Black Swan.” They may assume that the host of the Monday night open stage at the Danforth Ave. tavern in TO East, Sebastian Agnello (aka Seb to fans and…
\ TO WEST \ Tonight, sad to say, is the third-last installment of the popular weekly “Hump Night Blues” shows happening Wednesdays at a west TO billiard hall/music venue, as the property has been sold and the new owners want a clean slate to start their occupancy on June 1 we’re told. It’s been a…
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SHOW LISTINGS for Monday, May 15, 2022 For KEY to listings codes and schemata see note at end of shows list. Names of subscribers appear in bold, are underlined and, where applicable, include a live link to their websites. For Subscription details visit http://www.torontomoon.ca/subscribe/ Advertisers’ listings are in larger, highlighted type, include live link to…
\ ETOBICOKE \ For those of us for whom the pain of losing our mothers before we were ready to still stings —in my case even after a decade and for others I know, much longer— Mother’s Day is a bittersweet occasion. I read somewhere once the observation that “you never really get over losing…
