By Mike Beggs Special to TorontoMoon.ca \ TO CENTRAL \ I dug for —but never did find— an old typewritten “dupe” of a story I did on songwriter Kyp Harness for the defunct Eye magazine in the mid-to-late Eighties. Back then we were both hanging out at the long-running (and still going) Fat Albert’s Folk…
\ TO WEST \ It sure doesn’t feel like almost 18 years since Sam Grosso contacted me to tell me he wanted an ad for the opening of his new room in Parkdale, to be known as Cadillac Lounge. Yet indeed it is almost exactly that long since he opened the room at 1296 Queen…
\ TO WEST \ April has been a sad month for live music in west TO as not one but two longstanding venues with several nights a week of live music have either already ceased live music operation or will be dark after the end of the month. We already reported a couple of weeks…
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Giver. If you had to pick just one word to describe Jon Christopher Long, who passed away too young at 60 in his sleep last Friday, April 20 from coronary disease, that would be it. He was a multi-dimensional force in the Toronto and GTA music community and in all of the many roles he…
The following tributes are excerpts from just some of the many posted on social media and on the Legacy.com online tribute page by family, friends, band mates and clients of the late Jon Long. More will be added when the Musical Legacies Online Museum site is created. [See more details at end of this post.]…
\ TO EAST \ For some time now Jazz drummer and composer Daniel Barnes and various combos he anchors has showcased on the last Thursday each month on the well appointed low-rise stage in the acoustically superior room at Hirut Café Ethiopian restaurant and music bistro in East York. Hirut co-owner Tibebe Woldemichael, who also…
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The funeral for much loved music booster Jon Long will take place on Friday, April 27 at 3 p.m., his family is set to announce in a death notice to be published Wed. April 25. An autopsy into his unexpected but peaceful death in his sleep the morning of Friday April 20 found that…
\ TO CENTRAL \ Playing a distinctive octave mandolin instrument that uses six twinned strings to deliver a more versatile and energetic sound than a traditional acoustic guitar, songwriter Kayt Lucas describes her passionate, soulful Roots-Rock music as “Hard Folk,” but it’s pretty easy listening live. I had a chance to catch her for a…
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\ TO EAST \ It’s been a year and half since Rap sensation Bryan Van Dusen bid TO adieu to move with the love of his life and wife Jenna to the “left coast,” where the pair are still madly in love and enjoying life to the max. But this weekend BVD, as he’s known…
Shock waves are spreading through the GTA music community as news is shared of the unexpected passing of Jon Long overnight the evening of Thursday April 19 or early Friday April 20. A close friend of Jon’s told me this afternoon that he had seen Jon twice for coffees earlier this week and that the…
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\ UXBRIDGE \ Who knew there was so much live music talent in the Uxbridge area? And fifteen local businesses that are willing to feature it at some point tonight or all day Saturday during the two-day affair! What is being called the Springtide Music Festival, featuring some very impressive acts, takes place tonight and…
\ TO CENTRAL \ As the weather finally breaks in our favour after what seems a forever spell of dismal, chilly and even cold, wet and sometimes dangerous weather since Spring officially began, your cabin fever may have you itching to get out and about. You can do early and enjoy some frivolity and fun…
What are the odds, I asked myself as I struggled to decide whether to profile the feature set tonight at Fat Albert’s by exquisitely talented songwriter Lynn Harrison or the album release by a duo of equally gifted Roots/Pop composers calling itself The LYNNeS at Moonshine Café in Oakville? I mean, what’s with all the…
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\ TO WEST \ Yet another near legendary live music venue preparing to close, Cadillac Lounge in Parkdale isn’t limping into oblivion but has a robust schedule of live music between now and the end of the month when its doors are shuttered. Owner Sam Grosso has sold his stake in the room (interestingly a…
UPDATE: The Mike McKenna birthday show has been rescheduled to next Sunday due to the weather. Other show cancellations have also been received since this was posted. If you want to check a show’s status, click the link in the club’s address field to go to Google Maps, where address listings also usually include phone…
\ TO WEST \ It’s the end of an era for Roots-Rock fans who’ve been gathering Saturday afternoons for the past 13 years at Gate 403 on the Roncesvalles strip of west TO for the weekly 5-8 show hosed by affable songwriter Bill Heffernan. The club has been sold and closes after tomorrow’s finale performance,…
By Mike Beggs, Special to TorontoMoon.ca \ PORT CREDIT-MISSISSAUGA \ When patrons hunker down for the suppertime show tonight at Roc’n Doc’s in Port Credit, who better to provide the musical ambience than singer/acoustic guitarist David Hines and electric violinist Victoria Yeh, who recently joined forces in the duo known as Don’t Look Down. Hines’…
