After a summer break, AGO First Thursdays are back with the launch event of the fall season. Our programming considers notions of landscape, nature and nationhood with the theme Nostalgia Canadiana. The event celebrates the final weeks of the exhibition Picturing the Americas: Landscape Painting from Tierra del Fuego to the Arcticand landmark reunion performances by the Canadian indie legends Rheostatics with Kevin Hearn, which premiere the next night at the AGO.
Headlining the event is a supergroup of sorts, with a program called Music Inspired by Rheostatics. In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Rheostatics’Music Inspired by the Group of Seven, local musicians celebrate the band’s legacy by performing a Rheos song themselves. Vocalists include Laura Barrett (The Hidden Cameras), Terra Lightfoot, Casey Mecija(Ohbijou), Mike O’Brien (Zeus), Sandro Perri, Marker Starling (Mantler), plus a special performance by Canadian folk legend Mary Margaret O’Hara. Local guitarist and musical mastermind Thom Gill has put together a house band, and the tribute kicks off in Walker Court at 9 pm.
Sponsored By: Art Gallery of Ontario
