JACK BREAKFAST at The Sixth (1642 Queen West), tonight (Saturday, December 4), doors 9:30 pm. $5.
In the past couple of years, songwriter Jack Breakfast has taken an interest in birds that seems to have infiltrated everything he does. A pair of trumpeter swans about to take flight adorns the cover of his fourth and latest album, The Escapers, and his website’s home page looks like a gallery of feathered creatures.
Perhaps this ornithological interest is the reason why a performance by the Toronto songwriter has become such a rarity or maybe it’s just that few venues in this city have a piano, which is Breakfast’s instrument of choice.
Tonight, however, Breakfast brings his lonesome and personal songs of love and undoing to Parkdale art gallery, The Sixth. Performing solo, it will be an intimate evening in a unique and utterly appropriate space.
By day, The Sixth is a workshop and gallery filled with Iner Souster’s Fauxbots and Junkstraments, robots and musical instruments made from found materials. By night, the storefront transforms into a performance space for bands and theatrical events.
While a room full of stuff made out of salvaged junk seems like it should be ramshackle, The Sixth is not. It’s a cozy space and it’s inspiring to see what Souster makes out of things that others have left behind.
