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July 2018
SongStudio Faculty Concert
SongStudio is a week long songwriting workshop started by Rik Emmett (Triumph), and Blair Packham (The Jitters) as the Humber College Summer Songwriting Workshop in 2005. Now celebrating its 14th year, and based out of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, SongStudio is opening its Saturday Night Faculty Concert (normally an event for its registered participants only) to the public. Serving as the ‘kick off’ event for the workshop, this concert will feature 6 of this year’s faculty, performing…
Find out more »Sam Baker
Sam Baker is a man of few words. Always beautifully chosen, and fully wrought. Words placed like plants and objects in a Zen Garden. His website is stark: white, black, sepia, and shades of gray. Baker turned inward, to relearn the use of his body and brain after a Peruvian train bombing almost killed him in 1986. It’s taken years to heal. Time to reconnect. The road back was arduous, but it opened up new vistas in art, poetry, and…
Find out more »Solo Piano Double – Elizabeth Shepherd & Aaron Davis
Buy 3 Get 1 Free Bundle Our "Solo Piano Double" series is an intriguing concept in that each artist will give a 45 minute set - they will not likely be sharing the piano stool and dueting, although that is possible but not requested! We are offering a wonderful incentive to pick four concerts and pay for just three. It all comes down to great playing, open minds and the spirit of discovery. Tuesday, July 24 we welcome another amazing…
Find out more »SongStudio Student Showcase
Now in its 14th year, SongStudio is an annual one week song writing workshop held each July at the Royal Conservatory of Music, and run by well-known songwriters Rik Emmett, Blair Packham, Bill McKetrick, and Allister Bradley. Each year, the workshop attracts songwriters of all ages and musical genres from right across Canada, the U.S., and sometimes, as far away as England, Scotland, Taiwan, Jamaica, and Australia to Toronto to study the art of song writing, and have their songs…
Find out more »Jeff Daniels + Ben Daniels Band
Jeff Daniels Since 2000, Jeff has played many and varied venues such as The Birchmere in Alexandria, VA, Club Passim in Boston, MA, New York City’s 54 Below, Chicago, New York and Nashville’s City Winery, The Barns at Wolf Trap in Vienna, VA, Austin’s Cactus Cafe, the Ram’s Head Tavern in Annapolis, MD, Mucky Duck’s in Houston, The Ark in Ann Arbor, MI, Chicago’s Old School of Folk Music, Chicago’s S.P.A.C.E., Seattle’s Third Door, Alaska’s Blue Loon in Fairbanks and…
Find out more »Solo Piano Double with Marilyn Lerner & Lance Anderson
Buy 3 Get 1 Free Bundle Our "Solo Piano Double" series is an intriguing concept in that each artist will give a 45 minute set - they will not likely be sharing the piano stool and dueting, although that is possible but not requested! We are offering a wonderful incentive to pick four concerts and pay for just three. It all comes down to great playing, open minds and the spirit of discovery. The last Tuesday in July -…
Find out more »August 2018
Hannah Sanders and Ben Savage
‘An exquisite soundscape, which is the result of passion, precision and unbridled intimacy’ - R2 Magazine A chance meeting at their local Black Fen Folk Club in Cambridge uncovered Hannah and Ben’s shared musical passions and sympathies, that over time has developed into a unique and intimate show of American roots and English folk music. Huddled round a single microphone, singing intimate duets with just mountain dulcimer, dobro and guitar Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage are a folk duo that look…
Find out more »Colleen Brown + Sarah MacDougall
Colleen Brown tears at our hearts as she does her own. With versatile songs and a voice akin to Joni Mitchell, she is relentlessly unafraid. In 2015 she released her 4th studio album ‘Direction’ – co-produced by Joel Plaskett – topping college radio charts, and touring Canada, Germany and the UK. Kerry Doole of exclaim.ca says ‘she is the rare vocalist that impresses equally on vibrant soul and quiet folk…travelling in Brown’s Direction is one very pleasing trek.’ The project…
Find out more »Sylvia Tyson + Scarlet Rivera
Sylvia Tyson Sylvia Tyson started performing professionally in 1959 as one-half of the internationally acclaimed folk duo, Ian and Sylvia. She wrote her first song, “You Were On My Mind”, in 1962, and three years later it reached #3 on the Billboard chart for a group called We Five, subsequently hitting the British charts as a hit for Crispian St Peter. Through the sixties and early seventies, Ian and Sylvia produced thirteen popular albums and toured extensively in North America…
Find out more »Solo Piano Double with Laura Fernandez & Bob Wiseman
Buy 3 Get 1 Free Bundle Our "Solo Piano Double" series is an intriguing concept in that each artist will give a 45 minute set - they will not likely be sharing the piano stool and dueting, although that is possible but not requested! We are offering a wonderful incentive to pick four concerts and pay for just three. It all comes down to great playing, open minds and the spirit of discovery. Wednesday, August 8 promises to be a…
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