Monday, February 20, 2017

Concert Listings Roundup #188

You can read more about why I'm doing listings here. Long story short: This curated and decidedly non-comprehensive list contains nothin' but shows that I am going to/would go to if I had more time.


Gigs of the week:

Somewhere There Creative Music Festival (feat. David Dacks [lecture] / Nick Fraser New Quartet / Craig Dunsmuir & Dun-Dun Band / Body Double [Bile Sister + New Chance]) / The Tranzac (Main Hall) 2017-02-24 (Friday) [FB event]

Somewhere There Creative Music Festival (feat. Amelia Ehrhardt [solo dance] / Lîla Ensemble / roundtable on movement & improvised music moderated by Dawne Carleton) / The Tranzac (Main Hall) 2017-02-25 (Saturday – afternoon show!) [FB event]

Somewhere There Creative Music Festival (feat. The Thing Is / Manticore w/ James Beardmore + Xuan Ye / Future Machines / Prince Nifty) / The Tranzac (Main Hall) 2017-02-25 (Saturday) [FB event]

Somewhere There Creative Music Festival (feat. Rhinoceros Saxophone Quartet [open rehearsal & concert featuring new compositions by Tomasz Krakowiak and Alice Ping Yee Ho]) / The Tranzac (Main Hall) 2017-02-26 (Sunday – afternoon show!) [FB event]

Somewhere There Creative Music Festival (feat. Heidi Chan/Sarah Peebles / Rob Clutton/Michael Lynn / Diane Roblin/Michael Snow / James Bailey/Allison Cameron / The Mike Smith Company / Bristles Trio) / The Tranzac (Main Hall) 2017-02-26 (Sunday) [FB event]

Now in its fifth year, the Somewhere There festival has become a true celebration of the many strands of the local creative music communities. With five shows over the weekend, there's lots of music, plus a keynote lecture and a panel discussion (on dance and improvised music) to provoke conversations. Come and witness new music, unfinished music, impossible music all presented in the spirit of spontaneous joy.


This week's noteworthy shows:

LUKA (Lisa/Liza / Greef / Paterson) / Monarch Tavern 2017-02-21 (Tuesday) [FB event]

The Weather Station presents: Unclassic Classics Volume 3 (feat. Tamara Lindeman / Ian Daniel Kehoe / Geordie Gord / Sam Gleason / Ben Whiteley) / The Cameron House 2017-02-21 (Tuesday – early show @ 6 p.m.!

Ryan Driver (Tamara Lindeman) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2017-02-21 (Tuesday) [FB event]

Piano Party #9 (feat. Daria Morgacheva) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2017-02-22 (Wednesday – early!) [FB event]

Bellwether4 / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2017-02-22 (Wednesday) [FB event]

Ancient Shapes (Uncontrollable Urge / Triples) / Smiling Buddha 2017-02-23 (Thursday) [FB event]

Grey Lands (Fresh Snow) / Monarch Tavern 2017-02-24 (Friday) [FB event]

The Big Sound / The Great Hall 2017-02-24 (Friday) [FB event]

SpLit PeRsoNaLiTieZ (feat. members of Deliluh, Surinam, WHIMM and others [covering the Velvet Underground] / Scott Hardware/Errhead/L. Paradise [live electronic sets]) / Holy Oak Café 2017-02-24 (Friday) [FB event]

Corrodesion presents (feat. Doom Tickler / Blue Light / Jonny / Corrodesion) / Belljar Café 2017-02-25 (Saturday – PWYC!) [FB event]

Array Session #45 (feat. Daniel Janke/Rick Sacks/Martin Arnold) / Array Space 2017-02-25 (Friday – PWYC!) [more info]

End Immigration Detention Network fundraiser (feat. The Highest Order [live album taping!]) / The Silver Dollar Room 2017-02-25 (Saturday) [FB event]

Roman Pilates (The Bim Prongs / Body Of Waste) / The Dupe Shop 2017-02-25 (Saturday – PWYC!) [FB event]

Goodbye for Now, Holy Oak [all star band, all-star singers, live recording] (feat. Kieran Adams/Bram Gielen/Carmen Elle/Johnny Spence/Isla Craig/Victoria Cheong /Mamalia/Mary Margaret O'Hara/Ivy Mairi/Alex Samaras/Alex Lukashevsky/Matt Smith) / Holy Oak Café 2017-02-25 (Saturday) [FB event]

A New Day: Miss America live (feat. The Holy Oak Family Singers [Johnny Spence/Luke Kuplowsky/Carmen Elle/Tamara Lindeman/Ivy Mairi/Anni Spadafora + more TBA) / Holy Oak Café 2017-02-26 (Sunday) [FB event]

Pissbowelking (Colin Roy Gillespie [mem. Greys] / Western Plates [mem. Beliefs]) / Handlebar 2017-02-26 (Sunday) [FB event]

Look Vibrant (Omhouse / Max T) / The Silver Dollar Room 2017-02-26 (Sunday) [FB event]


Add these to your calendar:

Reminder: This post only contains this week's updates — the full listings can always be found over on the right-hand sidebar!

smut (WLMRT / Elegance / Bald Britney) / Smiling Buddha 2017-02-27 (Monday) [FB event]

NOTA Presents: Still Standing: A Benefit for Standing Rock (feat. Poster Boy / Zoo OWL / Lizzy Boredom / Sad Sorcerer) / Smiling Buddha 2017-03-01 (Wednesday) [FB event]

Raging Against the Machine: Coming Together [CD release!] (feat. Thin Edge New Music Collective / Ensemble Paramirabo) / The Music Gallery 2017-03-04 (Saturday) [FB event]

Protruders (Eroders / Tranz Defonze) / The Dupe Shop 2017-03-05 (Sunday – afternoon show! PWYC!) [FB event]

Audiopollination #52.1 (feat. Elizabeth Lima/Jamie Thompson/Laura Swankey/Nilan Perera / Alix Hyde/Kayla Milmine/Andy Yue / Elizabeth Lima/Alix Hyde) / Array Space 2017-03-05 (Sunday) [FB event]

Track Could Bend #24 (feat. Christine Bougie / Someone's Memory / act tbh) / The Steady Café 2017-03-07 (Tuesday – PWYC! new venue!) [FB event]

JLK & The Assassins [ex-Moss Lime] (Nyssa / Komodo / Sigil [membs. FRIGS + HSY]) / The Baby G 2017-03-10 (Friday) [FB event]

Audiopollination #52.2 (feat. Andrew Kay/Max Donaldson/David Shelly / Diane Roblin/Thomas Hainbuch/Harrison Vetro / Brian Abbott/Karen Ng/Zach Clark / Vladimir Luchansky/Rick Sacks/Glen Hall/Branko Dzinovic) / Array Space 2017-03-11 (Saturday) [FB event]

Burger Revolution V T.O. (feat. Paul Jacobs / The Knees Up / The Sulks / Seance Sisters) / The Silver Dollar Room 2017-03-11 (Saturday) [FB event]

Casual Drones 19 (feat. Sandro Perri / Justin Small / Jess Crowe & Bria Salmena / E Adi / Zephyr) / The Baby G 2017-03-16 (Thursday) [FB event]

Quintile [featuring Vinko Globokar's "Limites" and world premieres by Patrick Arteaga, James Lowrie, Julia Mermelstein, August Murphy-King and Andrew Noseworthy] (feat. Caution Tape Sound Collective) / Array Space 2017-03-18 (Saturday) [FB event]

The Toronto Improvisors Orchestra feat. Christine Duncan and The Element Choir / Array Space 2017-03-19 (Sunday) [FB event]

Six Saxes Sing for Spring (feat. Monsoon Trio / Dialectica) / Burdock Music Hall 2017-03-19 (Sunday) [FB event]

Artificial Sounds presents (feat. Schwefelgelb / Kontravoid) / Bambi's 2017-03-23 (Thursday) [FB event]

Buzz Records presents (feat. Colleen Green / The Memories / Goodbye Honolulu / Bald Britney) / Smiling Buddha 2017-03-28 (Tuesday – all ages!) [FB event]

Century Palm (Famines / Sweet Dave & The Shallow Graves / Deathsticks) / Monarch Tavern 2017-03-31 (Friday) [FB event]

Dany Laj and The Looks (Ghosted / New Enchanters) / Bovine Sex Club 2017-03-31 (Friday) [FB event]

Zoobombs (Munizo / Knifey) / The Silver Dollar Room 2017-04-18 (Tuesday) [FB event]

Invocation presents (feat. Michael Hurley) / The Tranzac (Main Hall) 2017-04-22 (Saturday) [FB event]

Colin Stetson / The Great Hall 2017-05-15 (Monday) [FB event]


Mixcloud corner:

  • I had a fun time making a playlist for yesterday's drone brunch — so much so that I ended up with more than eight hours of material! So seeing as I have it all gathered together, I shuffled it up and will convert it into a series of hour-long mixes. To keep things interesting, expect about 40% drone and 60% drone-adjacent sounds from various genres. Here's the first one, expect a new one weekly for the next while.

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