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.]

Monday Roundup #33

In the absence of concert listings, my regular Monday dispatches have fallen off. After bringing some life to the blog with the "bumping into" series, I figure I should get back in the groove. I'm guessing that this will be a bit like what used to get shoved into the end of the post when I was doing listings — some bandcamp suggestions, nods to a few livestreams, and sundry community notes (email me if you have anything that needs broadcast in the latter category!). Plus maybe a look back through the MFS archives.

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Community notes:

• It looks as if after much dithering that some manner of vaccine passports are coming to Ontario, which might give some sense of security and procedural clarity to show-goers as well as folks who put on events. Stay tuned for news for how this all unfolds in practice. Hopefully safer gatherings will be a possibility as summer starts to wind down — but there's plenty of nice weather for park hangs ahead of us yet.

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Video hits:

• Labyrinth Ontario has shared the first of this year's series of Modal Music in the Parks videos, this one featuring some North Indian Classical sounds from Pankaj Mishra (sarangi) and Tanjeer Alam (tabla) — and click the link above to dig in a little deeper, including interviews with the artists:

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It happened this week...

• ...on September 4, 2017 at Allan Gardens (Intersection – Day 4).

Castle If & Music In The Barns - Untitled (Theme For a Labyrinth)

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

Suzanne Ciani - [edited excerpt]

[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: Suzanne Ciani

Artist: Suzanne Ciani

Song: [edited excerpt]

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

Suzanne Ciani - [edited excerpt]

This year's Intersection Festival started with a genuine happening, with this presentation of modular synth legend Suzanne Ciani. The night began with a screening of A Life In Waves, the recent documentary tracking her several careers (electronics sound pioneer for TV commercials, leading New Age musician) and re-discovery as a sonic forerunner whose early work is only truly being appreciated now. That, plus a Q + A session hosted by Katie Jensen, gave the audience a sense of Ciani's engaging personality before she played a live set for Buchla synthesizer in quadraphonic sound, which was grounded by inspiration from birds, winds and waves of all kinds.