Preview/contest: TONE Festival

TONE 2018

June 3rd–22nd, 2018

This Ain't No Jazz Festival.

For the second year, some of the city's most adventurous bookers are combining forces to find local shows for some equally adventurous musical acts. Eight shows spread out through June, all with some of the best local creative music forces complementing the visitors. All of these are worth checking out:

• Manas / Clarinet Panic Redux / Kurt Newman's Nashville Minimalism Unit Sunday, June 3rd @ Baby G [co-presented with Mechanical Forest Sound] N.B.: due to a scheduling conflict, Manas will not be able to perform in Toronto! The show is still happening with the remaining two acts.
• Waclaw Zimpel & Kuba Ziolek / Joseph Shabason / Nick Storring Tuesday, June 5th @ Baby G
• Anthony Coleman / c_RL Friday, June 8th @ Array Space
• Jessica Moss / Tryal / Manticore Saturday, June 9th @ Burdock
• Efrim Manuel Menuck / Fet.Nat / Fresh Snow / Scattered Clouds Friday, June 15th @ The Jam Factory [co-presented with Wavelength & Boiler Room Records]
• The Revival Ensemble / Sick Boss Löve Sunday, June 17th @ Tranzac
• Oren Ambarchi & Will Guthrie / Jazz Bras Dot Com / Retired Tuesday, June 19th @ The Jam Factory [co-presented with The Music Gallery's Departures Series]
• Charles Gayle / Ways Friday, June 22nd @ Array Space

Bonus! Karen Ng + I will be talkin' TONE (and playing some music from these artists) on The Night Shift, Wednesday night 9 to 11 p.m. on CJRU 1280AM. Tune in for the grooves, shout-outs and food jokes!

TICKETS + MORE INFO

Artist info and everything else you need is all on TONE's website. TONE shows are $10-$15 in advance, $12-$18 at the door. Advance tickets are available at Rotate This, Soundscapes, and Circus Books and Music. Four-show and full festival passes are available as well!

CONTEST

I'm proud to be co-presenting the festival opener with MANAS + more at The Baby G on Sunday so I'm going to share the joy by giving away a pair of tickets to the show!

To enter, shoot me an email to mechanicalforestsound@gmail.com, with "contest" in the title and your name in the body. I'll randomly draw a winner on Friday, June 1st at noon.