On an orange table sits a ticket and theatre program for Soulpepper Theatre's production of "Six String: A History Of The Guitar," running to July 27 2025 at the Young Centre in Toronto, ON.

OK, it's boomer catnip—& if you h8 not hearing a song in its entirety, it'll drive ya bonkers. But I thrilled @ how much @bdslips.bsky.social @swinghammer.bsky.social & co. crammed into this 90min showcase of guitar-driven music, & legends who've made their marks w/ SIX STRINGs. #TheaTO #TOMusicCity

‘He sold me the dream,’ Toronto musician claims landlord negligence is stopping him from opening east-end music venue - NOW Toronto Mercy on Gerrard paused after founder claims he was scammed into signing a lease for a space that’s facing nearly $300,000 worth of repairs.

Bummer update: it doesn't look like "Mercy on Gerrard" will ever open as a performance venue, after the renter (not owner) discovered further unsafe conditions of the roof and basement that the landlord hadn't disclosed: #Toronto #TOMusicCity

THE SHAPE OF HOME: SONGS IN SEARCH OF AL PURDY ALBUM RELEASE Monday, May 5th Live @ The Monarch Tavern 12 Clinton Street | Doors open @ 7:30 p.m Admission $10 or $35 with vinyl purchase Featuring: Frank Cox-O'Connell Beau Dixon Hailey Gillis Raha Javanfar & Andrew Penner.

Back in #Toronto after a week+ outta town, & hoping to see some #TheaTO (& #TOMusicCity?) pals @ tonight's THE SHAPE OF HOME cast album release party!

Aw, no. This is a real loss for #Toronto 's live music scene. #TOMusicCity

Tonight's album release party at the Monarch Tavern is CANCELLED.

Cancelled today, due to illness. (Sigh.) #TheaTO #TOMusicCity #CdnCult

THE SHAPE OF HOME: SONGS IN SEARCH OF AL PURDY ALBUM RELEASE Monday, February 24 Live @ The Monarch Tavern 12 Clinton Street | Doors @ 7:00 PM Admission $10 or $35 with vinyl purchase Featuring: Frank Cox-O'Connell Beau Dixon Hailey Gillis Raha Javanfar Andrew Penner

I Missed THE SHAPE OF HOME: SONGS IN SEARCH OF AL PURDY during its @crowstheatre.bsky.social run, so I'm glad to get the chance to hear its creator-performers sing the songs live tonight @ The Monarch Tavern. #TheaTO #TOMusicCity #CdnCult

Show poster for improvised music series TRACK COULD BEND's #100 edition, 16 February 2025 at 918 Bathurst St., Toronto, doors at 4:30pm, music 5-7, potluck dinner 7-8, music 8 to 11pm. PWYC. (FREE hot chocolate & tea to warm yer bones.)

If you have good snow tires/snow boots/snowshoes, the 100th edition of local “Improvised music and weird rock offshoots” series TRACK COULD BEND is still on today, 4:30pm onwards. FREE hot chocolate & tea to warm yer bones, PWYC music to soothe yer soul. #TOMusicCity

In the spacious basement of Sonic Boom, a record store in Toronto, The Weather Station's Tamara Lindeman (a white woman with shoulder length straight blonde hair, wearing a tan turtleneck and black anklelength skirt) & Ben Whiteley (a unshaven white man with a curly mop of hair and glasses, wearning a black striped button up shirt and black slacks) play acoustic guitars on a small stage in the stacks. Behind them hang t-shirts for bands like Joy Division, Nirvana, and Nine Inch Nails.

I think tonight's @theweatherstation.bsky.social performance was my 1st post-pandemic in-store? Tamara remarked @ the start that it felt like the halycon days of Soundscapes in-stores, & thanked Sonic Boom for hosting her & Ben for their 6 song acoustic set from her new album HUMANHOOD. #TOMusicCity

A hopeful sound: Toronto’s small live music venues claw back from COVID missing just one thing — more foot traffic "We just need people to come out and see the shows," says Rivoli Toronto owner John Christensen.

@thestar.com checked in w/ Wavelength's Jonny Dovercourt & the owners of the Rivoli, Handlebar, & The Cameron House, to see how #Toronto live music venues are faring. TL;DR: crowds have been slow to return consistently since the pandemic eased. #TOMusicCity #CdnCult

Cool, cool.

(Someone let me know when @StarEntertain is resurrected and starts posting on BSky.)

#TheaTO #ComedyTO #TOMusicCity #CdnCult