Monthly Archives: January 2018

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January 31, 2022

\ TO WEST \ With the dust barely settled from yet another stellar Dave McManus birthday show Saturday night, the godfather of Junction-area live music is seemingly trying to top himself tonight with a very special guest for his weekly “Hump Night Blues” series in the neighbourhood. Saturday saw acclaimed veteran Hamilton songwriter Paul Langille…

January 30, 2022

SHOW LISTINGS for Tuesday, January 30, 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…

January 29, 2022

\ TO CENTRAL \ We’ve written many times about remarkable sparkplug songwriter, author and song coach/instructor Signe Miranda and her various undertakings aimed at helping fellow composers to unleash their creative power. This evening, from 5:30-9:30 at The Hideout, she’ll be one of six featured guests talking about how to do that as well as…

January 28, 2022

\ TO EAST \ Three shows happening from mid afternoon through till late evening in east TO today all bear special attention for different reasons: in two instances hugely talented veteran artists are making first appearances in local clubs while in the other a long-running monthly open stage event may be drawing to a close. …

January 27, 2022

171205 Moon lights up live music night ALT

SHOW LISTINGS for Saturday, January 27, 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…

January 26, 2022

Danny Fisher of Lost Vegas -LOSTVEGAS.CA

By Mike Beggs, Special to TorontoMoon.ca \ MISSISSAUGA \ Few bands, in my quarter century of experience, have fit as naturally into a club as Lost Vegas has at Caven’s Alley Bar in the Lakeview area of Mississauga. They do a two-night stand there, tonight and Saturday, starting at 9 p.m. With specialties ranging from…

January 25, 2022

\ TO EAST \ You can never go wrong checking out the live music at charming, welcoming and acoustically superior music room and Ethiopian eatery Hirut Café in east TO. For over six years now, since I began a 14-month open stage run there in December of 2011, which demonstrated how well suited it was…

January 24, 2022

\ TO CENTRAL \ I knew that the popular weekly Jazz singer jam hosted by Lisa Particelli had recently hit the 13-year mark so found myself rather befuddled when I noticed last week that for the balance of the month it seemed to be missing from the weekly calendars published by 120 Diner, where, as…

January 23, 2022

\ TO EAST \ As we told you back in November, songwriter and acclaimed vegeran Pop Rock guitarist Alex Radeff has been appearing weekly Tuesday afternoons for the past several months (with a short break over the holiday period) for a 12-3 lunch show at downtown’s True Love Café on Dundas St. E. at Sherbourne.…

January 22, 2022

SHOW LISTINGS for Monday, January 22, 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 Home or Event url. FOR SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS VISIT: http://www.torontomoon.ca/subscribe/ Advertisers’ listings are in larger, highlighted type, include…

January 21, 2022

\ TO WEST \ We referred the other day to the spectacular success of the annual Winterfolk Festival started by Brian Gladstone fifteen years ago next month and as always this year’s 16th edition of the now seminal event promises another great weekend of live Roots, Blues and Jazz music when it takes place Feb.…

January 20, 2022

\ ETOBICOKE \ It hasn’t been a great week for Southside Johnny’s owner John Theodore. But that could all change tonight when he celebrates his birthday with one of the GTA’s most exciting bands that he’s been hoping to get on his very nicely geared-out stage for some time now. The club re-opened last night…

January 19, 2022

If imitation is the highest form of flattery, then songwriter and TO/GTA Roots scene mover and shaker Brian Gladstone must feel his ego being polished to a sheen this weekend. Until he started his now iconic Winterfolk Festival on a whim, a dream and a shoestring sixteen years ago now, no one ever would have…

January 18, 2022

SHOW LISTINGS for Thursday, January 18, 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…

January 17, 2022

SHOW LISTINGS for Wednesday, January 17, 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…

January 16, 2022

David Storey at Winterfolk in 2016 -GARY 17

\ TO CENTRAL \ I very much enjoyed my visit to the Amsterdam Bicycle Club on a Tuesday night in November when the weekly songwriters-in-the-round ABC Songwriters Circle show hosted there by Robert Pelletier featured three very accomplished performers. In addition to enjoying the tunes of the participants, who, in addition to the host included…

January 15, 2022

\ TO CENTRAL \ I was among those who, twenty years ago when it began, were initially pretty skeptical about the actual value of what is now a highly respected and much coveted Maple Blues Award handed out every year by Toronto Blues Society. Back then there were a lot of happening live Blues bars…

January 14, 2022

\ TO CENTRAL \ It’s been a while since I’ve written about uniquely versatile and inventive songwriter Michael Keith, a talent whom I actually first encountered —and was immediately impressed by— way back in 1992 when I began this magazine project as TorontoMoon.ca’s “grandfather” publication The Open Season monthly digest about open mics in TO.…

January 13, 2022

\ SCARBOROUGH \ Saturday afternoon jams have long been a popular musical event in nearly every community, but until recently jams on Saturday nights (and Friday nights for that matter) were a rarity because it was assumed that most people who might come to perform would already be engaged doing a gig of their own…

January 12, 2022

\ OAKVILLE \ I’ve been writing about the annual anniversaries of the Moonshine Café in Oakville for the past several years now, most recently for its milestone tenth back on January 7 in 2016. Although I’ve only actually visited the room a couple of times, both visits were more than satisfactory in terms of not…

January 11, 2022

\ TO CENTRAL \ Although you may have to pay two cover charges to catch both shows (I’m not really sure what the door policy at TO’s Reservoir Lounge is these days) if you venture to the toney bistro-style basement room at 52 Wellington Street E. early enough tonight you can catch two female Jazz/Pop…

January 10, 2022

SHOW LISTINGS for Wednesday, January 10, 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…