THE HORABLES
6.00
The Horables play an eclectic mix of Klezmer, Jazz Manouche, polkas, Gypsy dance tunes and rags from the age of steam.
RONLEY TEPER & THE LIPLINERS
8.30
Ronley Teper is most known for her genre-blending unabashed, experimental live performances, alongside her rotating collective of improvisors known as The Lipliners. A mix of folk, singer/songwriter, jazz, funk, orchestral pop, post rock, cabaret, and the blues. every tool in the kit is used to craft whimsical, surreal, and engaging contemporary art through music. It’s an approach free of inhibition that hearkens to the experimenter's like Zappa or Waits.
$15 cover after 10PM and $20 after 2AM, with all proceeds going directly to the musicians performing.
AHMED MONEKA & FRIENDS
11.30
A musical representation of Juno-nominated Ahmed Moneka’s journey from Baghdad, Iraq to the heart of Toronto, Canada
—Drawing on his Afro-Sufi-Iraqi music heritage, Juno-nominated Ahmed Moneka delivers a joyful and transcendent mix of African grooves and Arabic folk melodies, informed by contemporary funk, soul and jazz. Reflecting on his personal journey as an artist, actor and activist who arrived in Toronto fromBaghdad as a refugee after an appearance in a movie about gay rights, Moneka and his all-star global ensemble draw listeners into an ecstatic celebration of life, exploring love in all its forms alongside nostalgia for one's home, through original compositions and Middle Eastern classics.
JOAN SMITH & THE JANE DOES
2.30
Joan Smith, she of “towering pipes and a remarkable dirty guitar tone” (torontomusicreviews.com), and guitarist/producer Tom Juhas form the Jane Does – a femme fronted dance rock machine with cutting vocals that amp up to the edge of sanity, pulsing rock beats and relentless guitars which remind noted radio personality and music historian Jeff Woods of ‘Queens of the Stone Age fronted by Stevie Nicks’.