TD Salsa in Toronto Featuring TD Salsa on St. Clair Canada’s #1 Latino-themed cultural celebration, the TD Salsa in Toronto Festival features a series of city-wide events throughout June and July that celebrate […]
The Together We Rise Festival is a celebration of the Greater Toronto Area’s Asian diaspora's heritage and artists featuring multi-disciplinary arts programming. The festival is a first-of-its-kind event for Scarborough, […]
This year’s TONE festival opens on June 2 at Tibet Street Records with a night of instrumental dynamism. “In the rarefied, underground world of experimental free improvisation,” writes the Washington Post of TONE’s first headliner, “saxophonist Jack Wright is King.” Wright performs with longtime collaborator Evan Lipson (bassist), Ben Bennett (drummer and noteworthy YouTuber), and Zach Darrup (guitarist). The ensemble explores more widely the […]
The fifth edition of the TONE Festival presents an iconic convergence of generations and perspectives in musical experimentation. From June 2 to 28 curators Tad Michalak and Karen Ng demonstrate why Toronto continues to embody and embolden genre-defying creation and improvisation. TONE has established itself as a staple of the summer festival season and for […]
On June 7 at the Great Hall audiences will experience guitarist and composer Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog. A contemporary troubadour, Ribot has produced numerous recordings and collaborated with or contributed to the works of Tom Waits, Caetano Veloso, Solomon Burke, and Ceu, to name a few. Ribot’s ensemble includes drummer Ches Smith (who has played with everyone from Xiu Xiu to John […]
Seattle-based drummer, producer and emcee Kassa Overall premieres new single “Ready To Ball”, the first release with his new label, Warp Records. Kassa joins a fresh generation of talent evolving the British label’s legacy of producing groundbreaking adventures in sound and vision. His limitless talents for rhythmic exploration, both as a virtuosic jazz drummer and as […]
NXNE is Canada’s most important discovery music festival, presenting thousands of essential emerging artists , often just before they break, from across Canada and around the world - since 1995. From June 13 -17, 2023, over 20 of Toronto’s best live music venues will again come alive with great new music! NXNE makes great music […]
Diamond-selling and multi-JUNO Award nominated singer-songwriter Amanda Marshall is set to release a brand new original song collection entitled Heavy Lifting (Coalition Music (Records) / The Orchard) this summer, and brings the "25 & Counting: The Heavy Lifting Tour" to Massey Hall this June. The tour will feature special guest Sophia Fracassi, Kiss Radio's February and March […]
On June 21 TONE unlocks reactive potential at the Tranzac with Zoh Amba (saxophone) and Chris Corsano (percussion). Each artist brings a prodigious world of sound to their improvising practice, capable of blistering roars, transcendent oases, and worlds in between. Brussels-based Farida Amadou brings her transformative bass playing that takes turbulent crushed tones and renders them familiar and nuanced. The rhythmic agility of Ways (Brodie […]
Jenn Grant returns to the Danforth Music Hall to celebrate the release of her new album Champagne Problems (out June 21), joined by special guests Aquakultre, Amy Millan, Hannah Georgas, Kim Harris and more to be announced. Jenn Grant's music is deeply empathetic and generous of heart, so of course one day she would invite the whole country […]
On June 25 at the Rex, Brooklyn-based Caroline Davis (saxophone) presents Alula with ensemble members Chris Tordini (electric bass) and Kate Gentile (drums), which according to Something Else! “might very well be her most ambitious project yet even as it’s also structurally her most spare.” The album version of Alula featured Matt Mitchell (synthesizers) and another Deerhoof member, Gregory Saunier […]
TD Toronto Jazz Festival presents The TD Toronto Jazz Festival is excited to present extraordinary saxophone innovator Colin Stetson. Colin Stetson was born and raised in Ann Arbor, spent a decade in San Francisco and Brooklyn honing his formidable talents as a horn player, eventually settling in Montreal in 2007. Over the years he has worked […]
