THE ROBINSON’SONS
6.00
A bigenerational trio of musicians with a similar, if not exact, last name.
HEAVY METAL KLEZMER W/ MYK FREEDMAN
8.30
Myk Freedman's Klezmer Club play ecstatic Klezmer music. The band members have deep experience playing in the tradition, but in this band they are drawn to the experience in the moment and will take things to different places. Guitarist Myk Freedman has been active in New York City and Massachussetts for over a decade since he left Toronto, performing with musicians including John Zorn, Elliot Sharp, William Parker and more. Pianist Tania Gill (Tania Gill Quartet, The Titillators, Brodie West Quintet), bassist Victor Bateman (Murray McLachlan, Another Country, Vektor and many more) and clarinetist Peter Lutek (virtuoso who's played with everyone) are all also alumna of the Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band. Drummer Dave Clark is in the Rheostatics, was the drummer on Gord Downie's solo albums and leads the Woodshed Orchestra among many other wonderful things.
15$ cover after 10pm, 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.
JOAN SMITH & THE JANE DOES
2.30
Smith, she of “towering pipes and a remarkable dirty guitar tone” (torontomusicreviews.com), and guitarist/producer Tom Juhas from the Jane Does – a female 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 and Stevie Nicks’.