September 2019
Lindi Ortega
Kick off the 2019/2020 season with JUNO nominated, Canadian-born Lindi Ortega. With her signature red cowboy boots and onstage “country gothic noir” persona, she offers a fiery and dramatic take on modern country that’s impossible to ignore. The show will feature a feisty, rockabilly mix “drenched in passion, heartache and country swagger” (Huffington Post) and will include familiar songs like “Tin Star” and “Ashes,” mixed with songs from her recent release, Quentin Tarantino-influenced Liberty.
Find out more »Leahy
Over the course of their notable career, Canadian group Leahy has secured a place as one of the country’s most highly regarded progressive folk-roots bands. To date Leahy has sold more than half a million albums worldwide. They have been featured in three PBS television specials and are the subject of an Academy Award winning documentary, The Leahys: Music Most of All. As well as touring extensively throughout Canada, the US and Europe in support of three acclaimed records – Leahy, Lakefield,…
Find out more »Tom Lavin & the Legendary Powder Blues
For 41 years, Tom Lavin & the Legendary Powder Blues have been Canada’s leading blues band, selling over 1 million records worldwide. Highlights include winning a JUNO award for “Most Promising Group of the Year”, headlining the world-famous Montreux Jazz Festival, winning the Blues Foundation award and touring the US and Europe with legends like Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King and James Brown. Their mix of swing, blues, jazz & rock & roll appeal to audiences across the…
Find out more »“Remembering Stuart McLean” Featuring Pianist John Sheard, The Brilliant Band & Guest Vocalists
Toronto pianist, producer and composer, John Sheard, takes local fans on a walk down memory lane with his show Remembering Stuart McLean. The intimate evening of backstage stories, tour-bus tales, music and humour from 20 years on the road with Stuart, is an honest and genuine tribute to a man he spent so many years building memories with. Stuart McLean was a bestselling author, award-winning journalist and humourist, and host of CBC Radio program, The Vinyl Cafe. Stuart's ten Vinyl Cafe books have all…
Find out more »October 2019
Pavlo
Pavlo is a true world artist who brings audiences to their feet with his unique style and Mediterranean spirit. This sizzling guitarist blends Greek, flamenco, Latin and Balkan flavours. Over the span of his 20-year career, Pavlo has released 15 albums including two collaborative projects, 2015’s Guitarradas with Remigio Pereira and 2009’s Trifecta with fellow guitar masters Rik Emmett and Oscar Lopez. Pavlo is currently on tour promoting his second PBS special “Live in Kastoria” Greece and is still driven by his father’s…
Find out more »Daniel Champagne
*Cafe Show* “Daniel Champagne exudes a natural ease on stage, as he sings poignant lyrics and beautifully crafted melodies that invariably whisk the heart up with grand romanticism. Coupled with an exhilarating guitar talent that transcends mere acoustic playing to replicate a whole band, Champagne is just magical” – (themusic.com.au) Daniel Champagne is a singer/ songwriter and one-of-a-kind guitar virtuoso. He began writing songs and training classically throughout his teens; honing his craft and developing what would become the dynamite live…
Find out more »November 2019
The Legendary Downchild Blues Band- 50th Anniversary Tour
After 18 albums, countless awards and wowing sold‐out audiences around the globe, The Legendary Downchild Blues Band are celebrating their 50th Anniversary this year with a brand‐new show featuring hits like “Flip, Flop & Fly,” as well as fan favourites and hidden gems from throughout their illustrious career. Downchild came to international prominence as the inspiration for Hollywood stars Dan Aykroyd and the late John Belushi’s hit film, The Blues Brothers. The band is Donnie “Mr. Downchild” Walsh (guitar and harmonica),…
Find out more »Maddie Storvold
*Cafe Show* An alt-country prairie troubadour, Maddie Storvold is an emerging storyteller from Edmonton. She was recently featured on and won CTV’s The Launch, giving her the opportunity to record and release a single written and produced by Bryan Adams, in conjunction with Scott Borchetta's Big Machine Label Group. The single “Don’t Say You Love Me” went to #1 on the iTunes Canadian country charts in less than three hours, and peaked at #3 across all genres. From emotive finger…
Find out more »Kim Churchill with Special Guests
Kim Churchill’s style is explosive, with intricate fingerpicking, percussive beats, powerful harmonica melodies and a soulful voice. His songwriting reflects his coastal lifestyle – growing up on the East Coast of Australia, with the surf at his front door - and his nomadic life on the road. Whether he’s blazing through a distorted guitar solo or harmonising with himself over feather-light instrumentation, there’s a sense that his music is authentic. His ambitious new venture, a global multi-EP project, features songs…
Find out more »Formidable! Aznavour, The Story of a Legend
Charles Aznavour’s musical career spanned more then 7 decades. He wrote and recorded over 1200 songs, singing them in a variety of different languages and selling more then 180 million records worldwide. Formidable, created in honour of Aznavour, plunges us into the streets of Paris at the time of “La Bohème”. Surrounded by five French musicians, Jules Grison embodies, lives and vibrates to the rhythm of the music; a show in the purest tradition of the great French song and the…
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