Monday Roundup #249

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Concert announcements:

Exit Points #65: Spooooooooooooooooky Edition (feat. unni/Andrew Timar/Mina Zaghari/Nidhi Baadkar/Broken Pink Umbrella/Michael Palumbo / WEI EN/Judy Luo/Ruthless Design/Garden Of Magic/Zack Goldstein) / Array Space 2024-10-31 (Friday). $17.52-$28.27, all-ages. [FB event]

Holy Oak Family Singers present: The Songs of The Spice Girls (feat. Thom Gill/Robin Dann/Caitlin Woelfe-O'Brien/Luka Kuplowsky/Stefna Fratila/Carlyn Bezic/Ivy Mairi/Fez Gilen/Danika Vandersteen/Mira Martin-Gray/Heather Saumer/Josh Cole/Fan Wu/Madelyn Kirby/Steven Foster) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-11-05 (Wednesday – early) [more info]

DYAN (Shawn William Clarke) / Burdock Music Hall 2025-11-05 (Wednesday). $16.95 advance/$20 door. [tickets + more info]

The Max Donaldson Trio [record release!] [Max Donaldson/Ian Afif/Mateos Labbe-Phelan] / Sellers & Newel 2025-11-06 (Thursday). $20 minimum donation. [FB event]

Soundstreams Presents: For the Birds [performing two works from Olivier Messiaen's Catalogue d’Oiseaux alongside two world premieres of two new Soundstreams commissioned works, composed by Kalaisan Kalaichelvan and Maria-Eduarda Mendes Martins, each written in response to one of the Messiaen works being performed] (feat. Louise Bessette) / Hugh's Room 2025-11-12 (Wednesday). $free with reservation. [more info]

Batuki Music Society presents (feat. Okavango African Orchestra & Friends wsg Lorraine Klaasen, Pape Ndiaye, Adama Daou, Dally Dominic) / It's Ok* Studios 2025-11-15 (Saturday). $20 advance/$25 door, all-ages. [FB event]

Long Winter 14.1 (feat. Vivek Shraya [New Models album launch] / Tarek Funk / noonjeem / Wink) / Allan Gardens (Children's Conservatory) 2025-11-15 (Saturday). $20/PWYC [advance tickets skip the line], all-ages. [FB event]

The Mike DeiCont Trio [Mike DeiCont/Leland Whitty/Eric West] / Sellers & Newel 2025-11-15 (Saturday). $20 minimum donation. [FB event]

Whitney K / Monarch Tavern 2025-11-16 (Sunday). $24.73, 19+. [tickets/more info]

saucering [Tilman Lewis/Laura Swankey/Nilan Perera] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-11-27 (Thursday) [FB event]

Triio [Alex Fournier/Bea Labikova/Naomi McCarroll-Butler/Tom Fleming/Racha Moukalled/Stefan Hegerat] / Sellers & Newel 2025-12-11 (Thursday). $20 minimum donation. [FB event]

The Mike Milligan Trio [Mike Milligan/Nick Fraser/Brodie West] / Sellers & Newel 2025-12-13 (Saturday). $20 minimum donation. [FB event]

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Shows this week:

Nick Fraser’s Special Topics [Nick Fraser/Josh Cole/Kae Murphy/Maxwell Stover] / The Rex 2025-10-19&20 (Sunday & Monday). $20. [more info]

Patrick Smith Residency (feat. Patrick Smith/Reg Schwager/Chris Banks) / Dina's Tavern 2025-10-20 (Monday). $no cover. [more info]

Music Hosted by Karen Ng (feat. Alex Lukashevsky [solo] / Karen Ng/Allison Cameron/Stephen Parkinson) / Wenona Lodge 2025-10-21 (Tuesday). [more info]

Agnes [Rob Clutton/Bea Labikova/Mira Martin-Gray/Doug Tielli/Kevin Turcotte/Mark Zurawinski] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-10-21 (Tuesday)

Money House [Alex Fournier/Stefan Hegerat/Patrick O’Reilly] / Sellers & Newel 2024-10-22 (Wednesday). $20 minimum donation. [more info]

Wednesdays in October Residency (feat. Ronley Teper's Lipliners) / Drom Taberna 2025-10-22 (Wednesday). $10 suggested donation. [more info]

Emily Klassen/Ben Stein/Amahl Arulanandam / Sellers & Newel 2024-10-23 (Thursday). $20 minimum donation. [more info]

Halocline Trance presents (feat. Karen Ng [Backwards Blue release celebration!] / Jeremy Young / Xuan Ye / Measure) / Standard Time 2025-10-23 (Thursday). $20/pwyc. [more info]

Brandon Davis's Stations Trio [Brandon Davis/Patrick O'Reilly/Nick Fraser] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-10-23 (Thursday)

Kathleen McDonnell's Brideen Book Launch (feat. Selkie Sessions [Ivy Mairi/Isla Craig/Andrew Patten/Sean Donald]) / Burdock Music Hall 2025-10-23 (Thursday). $16.95/$28.25 with signed book, all-ages. [tickets + more info]

Dan Pitt/Brittany Pitt/Evan Tighe / Sellers & Newel 2024-10-24 (Friday). $20 minimum donation. [more info]

Death to T.O #13 [cover sets of music by Black Sabbath, David Bowie, Lenny Kravitz, Korn, Avril Lavigne, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Rem, Green Day, The Strokes, No Doubt, L7, Arctic Monkeys] (feat. Secret Sign / Miserable Weekend / J3m / Breeze-so Tired-lavoro / Vallens / Olga / Praises / Kurt Marble / Paste / Wild Black / Sap-flake / Leona Hell) / Lee's Palace & The Dance Cave 2025-10-25 (Saturday). $24.50, 19+. [FB event]

Jon Collin (East of the Valley Blues w/Colin Fisher) / Le Monde 2025-10-25 (Saturday). $20. [more info]

Triio (Mifune Moods) / Annette Studios 2025-10-25 (Saturday) [more info]

Ambient Afternoon (feat. R Grunwald / Drones Over Dufferin / Metric Time Ensemble) / Sounds Good Toronto 2025-10-26 (Sunday – 4 p.m.). $10+/NOTAFLOF, all-ages/family friendly. [FB event]

Sympathetic String Band & Friends (feat. Sympathetic String Band / Charles Spearin) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-10-26 (Sunday – early) [FB event]

Cacophony ["new and improvised collaborations in electronic music, noise and sound art... [t]wo new duos will be formed each night and the audience will have the rare chance to observe their very early stages of sonic collaboration"] (feat. autofeeder x cellsync / astrolope x ref wilcot) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-10-26 (Sunday). $pwyc, $10 suggested. [more info]

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It happened this week...

• ... on October 20, 2017 at Somewhere Else.

Context, NA - unknown

• ...on October 25, 2017 at The Baby G.

Bobbypin - unknown

[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.]

Recording: Bobbypin

Artist: Bobbypin

Song: unknown^*

Recorded at The Baby G, October 25, 2017.

Bobbypin - unknown

In the year-and-a-bit since being the first performer at The Baby G, Alana Marta DeVito returned with a confident swagger in presenting her solo tunes. Like that show a year back, she was playing in support of a former bandmate — she played alongside Petra Glynt's Alexandra Mackenzie (who was right up front dancing throughout the set) in Machetes. And showing some other dimensions, she also was behind the board doing sound for Mackenzie's set and is a part of the Posi Vibez crew, which was on site DJ-ing and adding glitter to the night.

^* Does anyone know the title to this one? Please leave a comment!

Recording: Bobbypin

Artist: Bobbypin

Song: Consequence

Recorded at The Baby G, September 16, 2016.

Bobbypin - Consequence

An exciting night out — not only for the music but also to check out the first night for The Baby G, a new venture from Shaun Bowring and the crew behind The Garrison. True to its name, the new joint (also a re-purposed social club in Little Portugal) was indeed something of a mini-me to its older cousin up the street, scaled-down and mirror-flipped. (I was amused to note that the opening night vibe was similar right down to the old billiard table pushed off to one side.) Even though a smaller room, this has the same sensibility, offering clear views toward a raised stage. Opening night still had the smell of paint and sawdust in the air, so one could sense the room is a work in progress — but it's a pleasing spot right from the get go.

Christening the stage was Alana Marta DeVito, with her solo Bobbypin project developed during her recent time expatriated to Berlin. A former bandmate with headliner Laura Hermiston in their BB Guns days, I first encountered DeVito as a stone-cold guitar hero, but she was also someone you might see in the crowd at a Petra Glynt show. The promo bumf for this project plays up her time in TOPS after she decamped to Montréal — which at first was something I put down to courting name recognition but there is definitely a similar sophisticated pop sensibility at play. Getting used to her rig as a solo performer, there were a few tentative moments, but also a bunch of really tasty tunes. DeVito's Sketches From a Terrace EP is now out, and I have heard we can expect to see her back in town in a couple months.