TANYA WILLS QUARTET
6.00
Singer/songwriter Tanya Wills is as comfortable on stage in a musical as she is in a club with her Quartet, and has sung everything from swing to blues/folk and jazz. Known not only for her dynamic performance, but also as a great vocal technician, Tanya brings a sensual and evocative sound to her musical interpretations. She has performed in a great number of Toronto’s most popular Jazz venues such as Hugh’s Room, Jazz Bistro and Hirut, and is one of the featured vocalists for The Wintergarten Orchestra, a Toronto based, 11 piece Vintage Jazz Ensemble – a sensational band for her to flex her Cabaret muscles, and to add her German and French repertoire. With her Quartet, Tanya brings her unique sound to the stage with three of her favourite gentlemen – master musicians, Bill Bridges, Ron Johnston and Kevin Coady.
DAVE CLARK’S WESTERN SLANG COUNTRY BAND
8.30
The Western Slang band walks a country music tightrope in a worn out nudie suit, holding a broken umbrella and wearing a beatific smile. Lead vocalist Dave Clark (Rheostatics, the Woodshed Orchestra, Charles Spearin) has curated a special songbook of his original C&W tunes for his awesome band of pals featuring; Lowell Whitty (drums), Michael Herring (bass), Paul Kolinski (guitar/bgs), Tania Gill (piano) and Nichol Robertson (guitar). The band can simmer to boiling in a heartbeat. This is country music with elegance, grit and all the shit that life can give walking side by side.
15$ cover after 10pm, with all proceeds going directly to the musicians performing.
BAD UNCLE
11.30
Accordion driven, polkabilly thrash, sometimes operatic, disco experimentalism to folk music.
A quartet of no-goodniks singing songs of undead graveyard lust and unbathed forestry workers in an accordion driven frenzy of nightmare-folk.
Discarding conventional approach to genre, Bad Uncle has brought their edgy blend of accordion driven, polkabilly thrash, sometimes operatic, disco experimentalism to folks all over Quebec, the East and West coasts of Canada, The United States, Middle Earth and the ocean floor.
DREAM TABERNA
2.30
Dream Taberna is what happens when you finally go to sleep after a night of falling love at Drom - but when you wake up in your dream you realize you're still at the party... Lucid dreams and distorted reality inspires the music of this quartet, made up of some of this city's most singular musical voices. Fall into a trance with Dream Taberna and find out where you wake up...