Live music

Hard Luck Thursday

Hard Luck Thursday

Dive Bars If you love dive bars, the Hard Luck Bar is amongst one of the coolest in the city.Like most bars these days, it is a hit and a miss for the size of the crowd. Weekdays can be a tough spot to fit and Thursday is tricky because people don’t want to go into...

Rebuilding the Toronto Blues Scene

Rebuilding the Toronto Blues Scene

All photos by Joe Taylor The Toronto Blues Festival Months ago, I saw the ad for this spectacular show at the El Mocambo. This had 3 of my favourite blues artists in Toronto today. When I arrived, I soon found out this was the first show put on by a brand-new...

Revving up the Rivoli

Revving up the Rivoli

It was quite refreshing to go out on a Tuesday evening and find a packed room to see live music. Personally I went to see the return of Haley McNeil, who moved to Toronto from her hometown of Teeswater Ontario. She had an opportunity to grow her style of music and...

Warrior Women Love

Warrior Women Love

This article is just my point of view of why you should be going out to see live music happening on Saturday Oct 3rd at the Painted lady. This show has a purpose to give back to the community. This story started about 2 years ago. I contacted Rose Cora Perry to ask if...

Harry Manx brings his Thing!

Harry Manx brings his Thing!

Review By Joe Taylor Let me admit this right away, especially for you Harry Manx fans. This was my very first time seeing this man live in concert. I have wanted to see him for a few years now but never could find my opportunity. When I heard that Steve Marriner and...

Middle Eastern Enchantment

Middle Eastern Enchantment

Labyrinth Ontario Labyrinth Ontario is a nonprofit organization that focuses on the promotion and presentation of traditional Modal music. This music helps develop the way you listen to music that is not the way of traditional western music. For my first time sitting...

My first Pillow Fite!

My first Pillow Fite!

I don’t remember how I heard about this show. After doing a little research on this band and finding out they came from Halifax and are doing the classic cross Canada tour, I was curious. I just came back from my first time out east and I now have an affinity for east...

A True Blue Moon

A True Blue Moon

I thought Blue Moon Marquee was a two piece band? How did the Horseshoe get lucky and have a four piece band and a guest harmonica player show up? Well we will delve into that very soon, but first, I thought the opening act was a perfect touch to such a great evening...

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