Tag Archive for Pete Otis

Pete Otis has succumbed following New Year’s Eve collapse -R.I.P.

Pete Otis just after completing his New Year's Eve set before collapsing. -GEORGE WILLIS on Facebook

I have been dreading the possibility of having to make this post since discovering early in the week that my longtime friend, supporter and all-round enabler of the Toronto live music scene, Pete Otis, had collapsed following his set during his SongTown New Year’s Eve show at Black Swan Tavern. Last night, on Sat. January…

UPDATED: McKenna birthday and Gate closing parties will be essential travel for fans despite ice storm | TorontoMoon.ca 180415Su | Shows for Sunday, April 15, 2022

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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…

Lack of interest scuttles Music Industry Advisory Council meeting

Jay Douglas plays Pied Piper fo Nunziata and Ford at City Counicl in 2013, -Screen capture from Sun TV

\ TO CENTRAL \ How much of a priority is Toronto City Council’s Music Industry Advisory Council to its 36 members? Not much of one based on what happened —or rather what didn’t happen— at the Wednesday, February 7 meeting of the body, comprised of six city councillors and 31 “representatives” of the local music…

R.I.P. drummer icon Pentti ‘Whitey’ Glan

Whtey Glan @ Blue Goose with Danny B Band 2015 -pic by Big Walt's Toronto blog

Another iconic drummer from the heyday of the “Toronto Sound” of Rock and R&B/Blues from the 1960s has shuffled off the mortal coil. Drummer Pentti “Whitey” Glan passed away on November 7 at 71 years of age after a short bout with cancer, with which he was diagnosed in September after follow-up tests from treatment…

Buhot trying out new room for monthly Round show | TorontoMoon.ca 170407Fr | Shows for Friday, April 07, 2022

\ TO EAST \ We’ve written on a few occasions about the monthly In “The Round” showcase presentations staged by Grunge-Roots songwriter Boris Buhot over the past couple of years. They’ve featured some stellar songwriters and putting disparate talents together to swap tunes and often accompany one another nearly always leads to some interesting surprises.…