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.]…
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…
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…
If you were the betting kind familiar with the history of music promoter and versatile drummer Jon Long and the longtime live music room Black Swan at 154 Danforth Ave., you could be collecting some winnings right about now. To this writer it was as inevitable as the fact that, no matter how bleak…
For one reason or another drummer and promoter Jon Long is no longer part of the Wednesday jam at Lola Pub in Kensington Market, as we had reported that he was last week. It’s difficult to know for sure exactly why, since Jon has been incommunicado the past couple of days. His voicemail message box…
Drummer and shows promoter Jon Long seems to be popping up all over the place these days. Ever since resuming his role as a jam host at Black Swan Tavern a few months ago —albeit for a biweekly Sat. afternoon jam instead of a weekly Wed.— it seems there’s no end to his relentless campaign…
Promoter, drum host and jammer Jon Long tells us that he’s looking forward to his latest Saturday afternoon 1-5 jam at Black Swan June 22 in part because his former lady friend Teresa Hart has told him she’ll be stopping in to play along with a fellow former member of the fem-Punk band Fidget, Elissa…
Kensington jam Friday will be for street-level musicians He may be known as part of a music instruments company that’s steadily moved in a corporatist direction over the past several years but Jon Long’s heart —and actions— are firmly with the street-level musician. Long, in fact, is these days only very peripherally involved with the…
Not only is Jon Long’s Danforth Jam back at the Black Swan Tavern (154 Danforth Ave. near Broadview) it’s a more happening event than it’s ever been! It appears the move from Wednesday evenings to a bi-weekly (including this afternoon) 1-5 slot in the beautifully renovated upstairs lounge was the right call. Best of all,…
By Mike Beggs, Special to TorontoMoon.ca \ PORT CREDIT-MISSISSAUGA \ Six years. 316 shows. That’s how long the enjoyable cover band Redder has been hosting the Saturday afternoon open jam at Port Credit Legion. Not a bad go, considering all of the different parties the host has to keep satisfied over the course of an…
\ TO EAST \ She’s never really had a public profile in the music biz, yet many in the Jazz genre and legions of east-Toronto music fans and fellow musicians across the city know who composer-songwriter and piano player Julie Long is. While Julie has spent most of her adulthood raising her kids, music has…
\ TORONTO EAST \ Summer long weekends are always a craps shoot when it comes to live entertainment in bars and other public venues. When the weather is nice it can lead people to head out of town to lake country or perhaps fire up the barbecue in the back yard and invite friends over…
\ OSHAWA \ As governments more and more wash their hands of responsibility for the welfare of self-employed people with modest or poverty level incomes who fall ill, beyond paying for basic emergency health care services, more and more frequently the musical community is being called upon to gather to raise funds for those of…
Long weekends are usually considered dead zones when it comes to live music in clubs and other venues. But not so the Family Day weekend, at least not this one. I suppose some folks are off in southern climes while others could go north for a skiing or snowmobiling getaway (but why would you need…
/TORONTO WEST/ As I’ve written about before on several occasions, Roncesvalles Ave. on Saturday afternoons is a special place to be for live music pretty much any weekend of the year. But today it’s extra-special as the local Business Improvement Area and community-oriented residents in the area put on the 5th annual Roncy Rocks…
Former credit manager for Long & McQuade Musical Instruments and longtime TO music promoter and versatile drummer Jon Long is rolling the dice. He’s gambling that he can parlay his longstanding Danforth Jam events at Black Swan together with his energy, invaluable industry experience and contacts into an enterprise that can help musicians build audiences…
The human body is an amazing and often unpredictable thing. When it’s working like it’s supposed to, it is magnificent, but when it’s busted it makes everything in our lives feel worthless. And when the injuries also affect one’s brain, life can feel very hopeless at times. But one of the most wondrous things about…
After what seemed, to her fans like me at least like an unduly long period of time away from the public spotlight, I’m happy to say that Country-Pop songwriter Kirsten Jones has been starting to pick up her performing pace a little of late. She’s been teamed up with Nancy Dutra and David Newland for…
\ TO EAST \ He’s never played a musical note on any instrument that I’m aware of, but James Ratch has been responsible for more people enjoying more live music than many of those who call themselves career musicians. As a promoter of Hard Rock and other acts, as security director at live shows and…
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