Volume 24 Issue 5 - February 2019

Part II. Music from Gilbert & Sullivan operas.
Henry Ingram, MC. Edward Jackman Centre,
947 Queen St. E., 2nd Floor. 416-366-7723.
$45. Feb 16, 4pm.
●●Toronto Operetta Theatre. Perchance to
Dream. Music by Ivor Novello. St. Lawrence
Centre for the Arts, 27 Front St. E. 416-366-
7723. $29-$49. Mar 3, 3pm.
●●Toronto Singing Studio. Brigadoon Highlights
– In Concert. Music by Frederick
Loewe, lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner. Bloor Street
United Church, 300 Bloor St W. 416-455-
9238. $25; $20 (sr/st) at the door (cash only).
D. In the Clubs (Mostly Jazz)
120 Diner
120 Church St. 416-792-7725
120diner.com (full schedule)
All shows: PWYC ($10-$20 suggested)
Alleycatz
2409 Yonge St. 416-481-6865
alleycatz.ca
All shows: Call for cover charge info.
Mondays 8:30pm Salsa Night with DJ
Romantico with free lessons.
Tuesdays 8:30pm Bachata Night with Weekly
Guest DJ with free lessons.
Wednesdays 7pm Midtown Blues Jam hosted
by Andrew “Voodoo” Walters.
Thursdays 7pm Spotlight Thursdays.
Fri & Sat 9:30pm Funk, Soul, R&B Top 40 $10
cover after 9pm.
Sat 3pm-6pm Matinee Jazz.
Sun 4pm Blues in The Alley w/ Big Groove.
Feb 1 Lady Kane. Feb 2 Soular. Feb 8 Red
Velvet. Feb 9 URequest. Feb 15 Gyles Band.
Feb 16 Lady Kane. Feb 22 Graffiti Park.
Feb 23 York Jazz Ensemble (matinee), Soular
(evening).
Artword Artbar
15 Colbourne St., Hamilton. 905-543-8512
artword.net (full schedule)
The Black Swan
154 Danforth Ave. 416-469-0537
Winterfolk XVII Blues and Roots Festival
$25 wristband
Ground Floor
Feb 22 7pm Sebastian Agneto; 8pm Jerome
Tucker Band; 9pm Glen Hornblast Band;
10pm Gary Kendall Band; 11pm Wayne Neon
and the Amazing Tubular Orchestra. Feb 23
1pm Ken Yoshioka; 2pm Doris Folkens; 3pm
STAV; 4pm The Lifers; 5pm Peter Verity; 6pm
Maggie & Mr. Rogers; 7pm The Barrel Boys
Trio; 8pm Sue & Dwight; 9pm HOTCHA!; 10pm
Brian Gladstone; 11pm Q&A - Tony Quarrington
& Zoe Adams. Feb 24 1pm Brampton Folk
Club. Glenn McFarlane, David MacLachlan,
Karl Widmeyer, Mark Yan & Barry Mulcahy,
Sally Campbell, Jamie Reilly; 3pm Seneca College
Independent Music Program; 6pm Noah
Zacharin; 7pm Lynn Harrison; 8pm Danny
Marks; 9pm Alessia Cohle.
2nd Floor
Feb 22 11pm Jack de Keyzer Band. Feb 23 3pm
Harpin’ Norm Lucien & Friends; 4pm STAV;
10pm David Storey CD release with the Side
Road Scholars. Feb 24 4pm Donné Roberts;
5pm Brian Blain & Friends; 6pm Jon Brooks;
7pm D’Arcy Wickham CD Release; 9pm Cassie
& Maggie
Feb 9, 7:30pm.
●●University of Toronto Faculty of Music.
Thursdays at Noon: Opera Spotlight. A preview
of U of T Opera’s production of Mozart’s
La finta giardiniera. Walter Hall, Edward
Johnson Building, University of Toronto,
80 Queen’s Park. 416-408-0208. Free. Feb 14,
12:10pm.
●●VOICEBOX: Opera in Concert. Fierabras.
Music by Franz Schubert, libretto by Joseph
Kupelwieser. St. Lawrence Centre for the
Arts, 27 Front St. E. 416-366-7723. $29; $50;
$65. Feb 3, 2:30pm.
3rd Floor
Feb 23 1pm Become a One-Man Band. Sammy
Duke shows how to play 8 instruments at
once; 2pm Fingerpicking the Blues with Brian
Blain, D’Arcy Wickham; 3pm Accordion Summit.
Dwight Peters, Liv Cazzola, Bev Kreller;
4pm Songs of Canada. David Storey, Maggie
MacDonald, James Gordon; 5pm Fiddle Styles
and Traditions. Emilyn Stam, Cassie MacDonald
and Alana Cline. Feb 24 5pm Songs of Protest
and Social Change. Sebastian Agnello,
Jon Brooks, Sue and Dwight; 6pm Songs of
Canada. David Storey, Maggie MacDonald,
and James Gordon; 7pm Harmonica Workshop.
Harpin’ Norm Lucien and Ken Yoshioka;
8pm Masters of Guitar. In the style of old guitar
masters. Brian Gladstone; Lynda Kraar,
and D’Arcy Wickham; 9pm Simone Morris.
See also Mambo Lounge and Dora Keogh.
The Blue Goose Tavern
1 Blue Goose St. 416-255-2442
thebluegoosetavern.com (full schedule)
Bloom
2315 Bloor St. W. 416-767-1315
bloomrestaurant.com (full schedule)
All shows 7pm 19+. Call for reservations.
Burdock
1184 Bloor St. W. 416-546-4033
burdockto.com
Ticket prices vary by show, but typically
$10-$20; check website for individual show
prices.
Feb 1 6:30pm RedFox, 9:30pm Paddy N’ Rob
+ The Harmony Heroes. Feb 2 6:30pm Sikuris
St. Lawrence, 9:30pm Cold Tea & Marshall
Veroni. Feb 3 9:15pm Thomas Steele Group.
Feb 4 6:30pm Michael Eckert, Christine Bougie,
Joshua Van Tassel & Hugh Marsh. Feb 5
6:30pm Probably Poetry: An Evening of New
Work, 9:30pm Carl Lorusso Jr., Noah Zacharin
& MIP Power Trio. Feb 6 7:30pm Confabulation
presents Good Date / Bad Date,
9:30pm Aerialists with Robert Alan Mackie.
Feb 7 6:30pm Pugs & Crows w/ Sam Tudor.
9:30pm The Techno Hall of Fame & Merival.
Feb 8 9:30pm Sunshine State Album Release.
Feb 9 6:30pm Deep Waters EP Release.
Feb 10 2pm 4 th Ave Initiation Tour 2.0 w/
Aja9, 6:30pm Carly Dow & Madeleine Roger.
Feb 14 and 15 6:30pm Khari Wendell McClelland.
Feb 16 6:30pm Alanna Matty EP Release,
9:30pm Marker Starling Album Release
w/ Sing Leaf. Feb 19 6:30pm Kaili Kinnon.
Feb 20 6:30pm Massey Hall Presents: Martin
Kerr. Feb 23 9:30pm Lula Wiles. Feb 24
6:30pm Lunar Bloom + Jessica Pearson And
The East Wind. Feb 27 9:30pm Abigail Lapell
Beat by Beat | Mainly Clubs, Mostly Jazz!
A Jazz Room
Shout Out
COLIN STORY
As I write this, the temperature is hovering just about zero
degrees Celsius, there is a considerable amount of snow on the
ground, and it is raining. It will continue to rain until tomorrow
morning, apparently, as per the forecast, which is typical of Toronto
between New Year’s Day and the Ides of March: slushy, unpleasant and
thoroughly inconvenient. It isn’t all bad, of course, as such weather
affords us the opportunity to indulge in unique seasonal activities,
such as Snowbank Roulette, in which we try to guess which section
of the ugly pile of once-pristine snow adjoining the crosswalk is solid
enough to step on, and which will give way immediately, soaking
our feet for the rest of the day; Being Uncomfortable All The Time,
in which we attempt to wear the right outfit for the day’s weather
(winter jacket, toque, no gloves, umbrella?) but invariably miss the
mark, resulting in profoundly unpleasant transit experiences; and, my
personal favourite, Never Going To The Grocery Store, as we justify our
daily desire to just order something fun tonight, and, seriously this
time, pick up some real food tomorrow.
Thankfully, February isn’t all wet socks, streetcar woes, and
ballooning Pad Thai-related credit card debt. We are fortunate, in
Southern Ontario, to have some compelling reasons to brave the
outdoors, not least of which are a number of stellar shows taking place
this month, including at Toronto clubs such as The Rex and Burdock.
I’d like to take a moment, however, to highlight the programming
at a different venue: The Jazz Room, located in the Huether Hotel, in
Waterloo. (The Huether Hotel building has existed, in various iterations,
since 1899; check out their website for more interesting historical
information.)
The Jazz Room is a comfortable, oak-heavy listening space, with
consistently great sound courtesy of their in-house engineer. With
shows presented by the Grand River Jazz Society, the Jazz Room
has a mandate “to support exceptional musicians from [their] own
community and to invite talent from elsewhere for local audiences to
hear.” Included in the category of exceptional local musicians is the
Penderecki String Quartet, a well-known group that has performed
worldwide from their home base at Wilfrid Laurier University, where,
since 1991, they have occupied the position of quartet-in-residence.
The PSQ joins two different acts at the Jazz Room this month: the first,
pianist/composer David Braid, has been working with string quartets
for some time; his 2016 JUNO-nominated album Flow features
the Epoque String Quartet. The second act to be joined by the PSQ
at the Jazz Room this month is the duo of Glenn Buhr and Margaret
Sweatman, who will be presenting a “jazz cabaret featuring words and
music with a jazz twist.”
Also at The Jazz Room in February: Pianist Florian Hoefner, who
makes two appearances
in our listings
this month – at The Jazz
Florian Hoefner
Room, on February 22
and, two days earlier,
at The Old Mill’s Home
Smith Bar in Toronto,
on February 20. Born
in Germany, Hoefner
attended the University
of Arts in Berlin before
being admitted to the
MMus program at the
Manhattan School
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