Donovan Woods releases new video and a timely message - There ain't no Next Year

There ain't no next year - another day down, another week gone, you're always just talking about tomorrow - you can't beg steal, borrow or make time. . .  so you make plans and hope for the best. . .

Celebrate Massey Hall: $18.94 gets you Jim Cuddy, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Sarah Harmer, Sam Roberts, Whitehorse plus more

By Will McGuirk

Mark the date - Thursday, June 14, 8:00p.m. and celebrate the 124th birthday of the Old Lady of Shuter Street. Massey Hall will be toasted by a variety of Canada's biggest and best sitting in with house band Whitehorse. And yes tickets begin at $18.94, in tribute to the year the Hall first opened. It is part of the Live at Massey Hall series.

Massey Hall will close soon for two year to enable substantial renovations to take place. The entire makeover, already begun, will last seven years. The last concert will be Gordon Lightfoot June 29, 30 and July 1. 

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George Thorogood Meet & Greet at Sunrise Pickering Apr 25, plays Massey Hall Apr 26

By Will McGuirk

Iconic rocker George Thorogood is paying a visit to Durham Region Wednesday April 25 2018. He will be at the Pickering Town Centre location of Sunrise Records for a meet & greet, a day prior to his Party of One show at Massey Hall in Toronto. The first 200 people to purchase one of Thorogood's albums that day will be given  a wristband allowing them to meet him. He will be there 6 - 8 pm. Vinyl reissues for classic George Thorogood albums, "Bad to the Bone", and "Born to Be Bad" were released on March 30th. "30 Years of Rock" by George Thorogood & The Destroyers, which includes the hit songs "Bad To The Bone" and "I Drink Alone", as well as classic covers of "Who Do You Love?", "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer", and many more was also released. This current tour marks the 40th anniversary of Thorogood (and the Destroyers).

Good Lovelies play Massey Hall May 11, with Royal Wood and Fionn

By Will McGuirk

Busy time for the Good Lovelies with a grand date at the old lady on Shuter Street and another at the Grand Dame of Folk Fests, Mariposa. The trio are touring their indie release, "Shapeshifters", recorded with Daniel Ledwell, who has worked with Jenn Grant among others. Beautiful work too, with all instrumentation taking a back seat to the full harmonies of Kerri Ough, Susan Passmore, and Caroline Brooks.

Here's the intinerary:

Friday, May 11- Toronto, ON - MASSEY HALL - Special Guests of Royal Wood
Wednesday, May 30 - London, ON - Aeolian Hall
Saturday, June 2 - Thunder Bay, ON - Port Arthur Polish Hall
Sunday, June 3 - Winnipeg, MB - West End Cultural Centre
Tuesday, June 5 - Saskatoon, SK - The Broadway Theatre
Wednesday, June 6 - Edmonton, AB - The Triffo Theatre
Saturday, June 9 - Vancouver, BC - The Fox Theatre
Sunday, June 10 - Victoria, BC - Capital Ballroom
July 7-8 - Orillia, ON - Mariposa Folk Festival
Wednesday, Aug 1 - Hilton Beach, ON - Old Town Hall Summer Concerts
Saturday, Aug 11 - Goderich, ON - Goderich Celtic

Fionn make cool pop tunes, open for Royal Wood at Massey Hall May 11

White Rock BC twins, Fionn, want you to suspend your first impressions, get past the looks and think deeper, think soul, think bones, think "Skeleton" and maybe skip around your living room while you contemplating how quickly we sum up things in just one glance or one listen and perhaps we could slow down a tad.  The Good Lovelies are also on the bill. Ticket details here.

The Good Lovelies release "Shapeshifter", play Massey Hall May 11 with Royal Wood

The voice times three, the harmonies, the Good Lovelies bring it all in silky delicate number light as breathing, and while they see gold I see This Is Us all of us.

Hey Mama, new track from Nathaniel Ratetliff and the Nightsweats, plays Massey Hall May 18

The latest track from Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats is a four minute trip though the Last Waltz, all of those Winterland Ballroom kats, from Dylan to Van Morrison and Levon Helms & Co. show up in sonic vignettes on this pretty, great track, its oozy like a Sunday Morning, eh Mama? The new album, 'Tearing at the Seams' drops March 9 on Stax.

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Kathleen Edwards returns, plays Live at Massey Hall May 4 with Matt Mays

Matt Mays and Kitty Edwards - its a comeback bill made in CanCon heaven. Sign me up for this one as each are among my favourite artists. Both have been on a hiatus for quite sometime, Edwards has "quit" the business and opened a coffee house in Ottawa. Mays is rolling on back with his new album 'Once Upon a Hell of a Time . . ." and Edwards will be performing as a special guest. Ah yes the call of Massy Hall and friendship is strong so with prices starting at $18.94 you can see these two on the iconic stage. The Live at Massey Hall series is filmed and then made available online. Its an opportunity for artists as diverse as Peaches, Sloan, the Constantines and Tanya Tagaq to perform on the iconic stage. Other acts featured are Timber Timbre, Destroyer, Owen Pallett, The Weather Station and Zeus. The Live at Massey Hall series is in its fourth season and the resulting archive is a unique document of Canada's finest musicians.