Monday Roundup #294

Concert announcements:

More Noise Please! presents Manic Monday (feat. The Nausea / SEHKTOR8 / Crude Flame / Mountain of Woe / Pursuit Grooves / Writhing Deceiver) / BSMT254 2026-09-07 (Monday). $17.31 or pwyc. [tickets + more info]

Rondo Projects #4 ["the final part of Ehsan Sadigh’s Septet IV/IX"] (feat. Bea Labikova/Chris Pruden/Dhaivat Jani/Ehsan Sadigh) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2026-09-08 (Tuesday) [more info]

Audiopollination (feat. Andrew Kobus to go/Xukasia/Janel Jones / flower club/Rohee Uberoi / Noah Campbell/Neal Armstrong/Aisha Sasha John / The Not Michael Lynns) / Array Space 2026-09-11 (Friday). $pwyc/$10 (notaflof). [more info]

Lucid Lounge Saturdays (feat. Ryan Driver/Andrew Downing/Blake Howard) / Water to Wine 2026-09-12 (Saturday). $pwyc. [more info]

Toronto Makam Music Forum (feat. Naomi McCarroll-Butler & Sam Shalabi / The Folios of Iranian Dastgāh [Sadaf Amini/Ava Rostamian/Soheil Sadeghi/Sasan Salaseli/Araz Salek]) / East End United 2026-09-18 (Friday). $30 general admission, $20 student/arts worker. [FB event]

Rob Clutton/Karen Ng/Chris Pruden/Germaine Liu / Sellers and Newel 2026-09-18 (Friday). $20 minimum donation. [more info]

Mike DeiCont & Dan Fortin / Sellers and Newel 2026-11-25 (Wednesday). $20 minimum donation. [more info]

Marilyn Lerner & Matt Brubeck / Sellers and Newel 2026-11-26 (Thursday). $20 minimum donation. [more info]

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Shows this week:

Jazz Rat Mondays (feat. Patrick Smith/Jen Lo/Mark Godfrey/Jon Catanus) / Dina's Tavern 2026-08-31 (Monday). $pwyc. [more info]

Two Duos: Improvised Music (feat. Double Half Hitch Knot [yasmine & Roshanak] / Debacle Rebuttal [vic & Clay]) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2026-08-31 (Monday). [more info]

Track Could Bend #120 (feat. Dave Grenon's Indistinctive Gait w/ Ayesha Lye / Caution Wet Floor Signs) / Wenona Lodge 2026-09-01 (Tuesday). $pwyc. [FB event]

Drones Over Dufferin (biG kNiFE) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2026-09-01 (Tuesday). $pwyc. [more info]

The Lina Allemano Four [Lina Allemano/Brodie West/Andrew Downing/Nick Fraser] / Jazz Bistro 2026-09-01+02 (Tuesday+Wednesday). $20. [more info]

Altered States Artist Showcase (feat. Rebecca Hennessy/Michael Herring/Tim Shia) / Water to Wine 2026-09-02 (Wednesday). $pwyc. [more info]

Holy Oak Family Singers present: Madonna (feat. Holy Oak Family Singers & co.) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2026-09-02 (Wednesday – early). $pwyc. [more info]

the grandson [album release show] [Yoshi Maclear Wall/Ezra Schell/Lee Rosensweet] (Genre Fiction [Ben Culver/Alex McPherson/Miles Cakebread-Kraus/Ali Rashid]) / Burdock Music Hall 2026-09-02 (Wednesday). $10. [more info]

Equinox and Solstice Residency (feat. Ghostlight) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2026-09-02 (Wednesday). $pwyc, sugg. $15. [FB event]

ESP Free Jazz Thursdays (feat Brent Tanemura/Jake Bikay/Diana Piruzevska/Gloria Ksimuniv) / Water to Wine 2026-09-03 (Thursday). $pwyc. [more info]

Tania Gill presents (feat. Tania Gill/Brodie West/Rob Clutton/Nick Fraser) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2026-09-04 (Friday – early). [more info]

Shapeshifter [record launch!] [Brittany Pitt/Dan Pitt/Aidan McConnell] / Sellers and Newel 2026-09-04 (Friday). $20 minimum donation. [more info]

Humbucker Music’s Residency (feat. Humbucker Music [Nick Storring/Mira Martin-Gray/Colin Cudmore/Jason Doell] / Brian Ruryk) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2026-09-04 (Friday). [FB event]

Diane Roblin's Life Force [Diane Roblin/George Koller/Tim Shia/Kevin Turcotte/John Johnson] / La Rev 2026-09-05 (Saturday). $20 (door)/$25.57 (advance). [tickets + more info]

Ministry of Phonic Services presents: Back to School Field Trip ["a festival of outdoor experimental sounds and actions"] (feat. Germaine Liu / Fossils / Day of Niagara) / "River" 2026-09-05 (Saturday). $pwyc. [more info]

Mateos Labbe-Phelan/Max Stover/Ian Afif / Sellers and Newel 2026-09-05 (Saturday). $20 minimum donation. [more info]

Adjacent Spheres ["performing original music inspired by and composed by Dean Veneruz"] (feat. Village [Michael Davidson/Joel Bracken/Aline Homzy/Jen Lo/Hiro Tanaka/Mateo Mancuso]) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2026-09-06 (Sunday)

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Bandcamp corner:

• It's back on September 4th! After that long summer gap, it feels a bit surprising to have Bandcamp Friday again two months running, but there's lots of stuff coming out and artists to support! Here's a couple things I have my eyes on:

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In the mix:

• New ambinet mix! Drone and drone-adjecent music, "country and new age" special. Sounds from Sympathetic String Band, rebecca bruton & Kurt Newman, anthéne, PJS, Heraclitus Akimbo, Brian Eno, Matt Rogalsky, Thought Guild, John Taylor/Norma Winstone/Kenny Wheeler, The Cosmic Tones Research Trio, and Steve Young.

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It happened this week...

• ...on August 31, 2018 at The Revue Cinema (Intersection (Night 1)/The Music Gallery's Departures Series).

Suzanne Ciani - [edited excerpt]

• ... on September 4, 2018 at Wenona Lodge (Track Could Bend #42).

Saturn City - Shepherd

[Do remember that you can click on the tags below to go back and find the original posts (and often, more stuff) from these artists.]