\ BRAMPTON \ It’s not uncommon for not just prophets, but also for artists, writers and musicians to be taken for granted in their hometowns. But for David Love tonight will be a chance to bask in local appreciation while making his admirers happy too. His David Love Band is exactly the sort of act…
-Gary 17, TorontoMoon.ca [email protected] * [email protected] SHOW LISTINGS for Thursday, August 30, 2021 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…
\ TO CENTRAL Uptown \ Veteran Roots songwriter Howard Gladstone and singer/pianist Laura Fernandez have been performing together for some time now and Latin-Jazz songwriter and radio show host Fernandez is part of Gladstone’s new trio act (with Tony Quarrington) that we told you a bit about in June. Fernandez is also involved with sonic…
\ ETOBICOKE \ Maybe next week we can fill you in with more details in the back story, as our correspondent plans to cover tonight’s debut of fabulous classic & contemporary Rock band Groovestone as they debut a new Tuesday evening series at Southside Johnny’s in Etobicoke. It’s a first for the club with a…
\ PETERBOROUGH \ It’s always a pleasure to report good news and it appears that there’s something to be happy about at the Black Horse Pub in Peterborough these days. Because a mainstay veteran performers of “The Electric City,” Rick Young, who seemed in a very precarious way when we wrote about him last November,…
\ TO CENTRAL \ Whew, it was looking like a near thing there for a while. Award-winning Roots songwriter Michael Laderoute told me recently, hopefully with his tongue at least somewhat in cheek, that he was considering “getting an old black suit, a vintage Caddy, 2 capos and cheap wine, maybe get a pork pie…
\ NEWMARKET \ With nice weather continuing to hold as summer starts its descent into the autumn, you may be tempted to take a road trip at some point, and if so this weekend offer yet another raft of rib fests and other suchlike events in various locales across the outer portions of the GTA.…
-Gary 17, TorontoMoon.ca [email protected] * [email protected] SHOW LISTINGS for Thursday, August 23, 2021 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,…
\ PETERBOROUGH \ It would be now just about forty years since the summer afternoon in the late 1970s that I first encountered the outrageously delightful duo known as Reverend Ken & Washboard Hank (also know sometimes as The Duke of Washboardom and the Parson of Panhandlerdom) on the streets of London, Ontario, where they…
-Gary 17, TorontoMoon.ca [email protected] * [email protected] SHOW LISTINGS for Tuesday, August 21, 2021 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,…
\ SCARBOROUGH \ Blues brunches have become a popular feature of rooms across the GTA and the most recent addition to the rooms trying out the concept is the stately Olde Stone Cottage in south Scarborough. The club has also tried Sunday dinner-and-a-show events on an occasional basis, but these new shows are running weekly…
\ TO CENTRAL/WEST \ As regular readers will know, every year for the past decade or so I have made a point of including listings from the annual Canadian National Exhibition, which runs from tonight till Labour Day, in our calendar of shows. Although the headline acts don’t need the extra publicity, the Ex has…
-Gary 17, TorontoMoon.ca [email protected] * [email protected] SHOW LISTINGS for Saturday, August 18, 2021 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,…
\ TO CENTRAL/WEST \ As regular readers will know, every year for the past decade or so I have made a point of including listings from the annual Canadian National Exhibition, which runs from tonight till Labour Day, in our calendar of shows. Although the headline acts don’t need the extra publicity, the Ex has…
-Gary 17, TorontoMoon.ca [email protected] * [email protected] SHOW LISTINGS for Thursday, August 16, 2021 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…
By Mike Beggs, Special to TorontoMoon.ca \ TO WEST \ For almost two decades, David Celia has made his bones as an Alt/Folk/Rock artist (with four CD’s), as a sideman on guitar (Ian & Sylvia, etc.), and by touring regularly across the True North and across the pond (playing such festivals as Glastonbury in England…
\ TO WEST \ Gillian Nicola is a young up-and-coming songwriter based out of Hamilton who seems to keep popping up all over the GTA and beyond the past few months. In addition to frequent slots at clubs in her home city, she hosts regular open mic nights in Georgetown and Waterdown, appears regularly at…
-Gary 17, TorontoMoon.ca [email protected] * [email protected] SHOW LISTINGS for Monday, August 13, 2021 For KEY to listings codes and schemata see note at end of shows list. Names of subscriberslyppear 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…
\ TO CENTRAL-UPTOWN \ There are festivals and special events aplenty taking place all across the city and in 905, 519 and 705 regions, as today’s listings detail. But one lower-profile event that’s worthy of some notice is a fundraiser taking place in a unique venue that’s hosted many interesting shows in the past, some…
By Mike Beggs, Special to TorontoMoon.ca \ BRAMPTON \ There’s a theory that the Blues grow on you with age. Maybe that explains why I found myself buying a Stevie Ray record last week. Or why I immediately gravitated to the music of American Blues guitar icon Walter Trout, who makes a much-anticipated appearance at…
