DONOVAN LOCKE TRIO
6.00
Donovan Locke is a jazz vocalist and entertainer who is passionate about performing and inspiring others by ensuring honest and fun performances. Donovan believes that an audience will always respond to an honest performance.
ARIANE MORIN’S BALKAN BRASS
8.30
Classic fiery balkan tunes, and maybe some klezmer, featuring some of the finest brass musicians from the Toronto music scene, led by Montrealer folk saxophonist Ariane Morin. With Max Forster on trumpet, Nathan Dell-Vandenberg on trombone and singing, Ian Tulloch on sousaphone and Naghmed Farahmand on percussions.
$15 cover after 10PM and $20 after 2AM, with all proceeds going directly to the musicians performing.
LOVE HURTS
11.30
Love Hurts loves country music, and this 6-piece band of veteran Toronto musicians will make you love country music, too.
Established in 2022, Love Hurts has been breathing new life into bonafide country classics and forgotten gems, pinning heart wrenching 50s balladry alongside 70s outlaw swagger, and 90s honky-tonk revival with swooning 60s countrypolitan. From Patsy Cline to Linda Ronstadt, George Jones to George Strait, Love Hurts makes the cream of the country music songbook sound as fresh as the day it was made.
Fronted by two dynamic singers, Barbara Johnston and Lowell Sostomi, and back by a cracking band who eat country licks for breakfast, Love Hurts follows no guide but a great song: if the tune makes you weep, call your momma, drink 15 beers, or cuss out your ex, you just might hear it at Love Hurts’ next gig.
Long-time lovers of the genre will rejoice to hear Love Hurts’ faithful versions of old favourites, yet new ears to country will be won over by the excitement of their live shows. Dueling pedal-steel (Adrian Cook) and electric guitar (Shaun Hogan), and a down n’ dirty rhythm section that’ll make your grandma grin (Ty Rowles & Kyle Watt): Love Hurts puts on a live show that is not to be missed.
So calling all members of life’s rich pageant: in country music there’s a song for each of you. And if Love Hurts is playing, you’re all invited to the dance.
EIGHTH STREET ORCHESTRA
2.30
The biggest little brass band on the street.