Slowcity.ca Open Mic - Family Day edition: Broken Social Scene, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Saxsyndrum, Adam Baldwin, Parting Gift, Pop Evil, Lydia Ainsworth and iskwē

Nothing says Canadian music family like Broken Social Scene, the thunderous hug of a band of BFFS, awesome in their own right individually and yet together still awesome. The TO crew have a new EP out, ‘Let’s Try The After - Vol 1,’ and they step up to open the Fam Jam open mic. Stay and listen to the rest of the voices, its quite the collection of folks and feelings, just like a family but remember its not a real family reunion until some one cries.
Happy Fam Jam with Tedeschi Trucks Band, Saxsyndrum, Adam Baldwin, Parting Gift, Pop Evil, Lydia Ainsworth and iskwē

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Slowcity Open Mic Night - Yellow sun on the snow edition; Shad, Howlin' Circus, Madison Violet, Rachel Beck

Quite an eclectic line-up tonight for this week’s open mic. Shad, Madison Violet, Rachel Beck and Metric

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Howlin’ Circus - Mar 2- Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto
Rachel Beck - Mar 7 - The Dakota Tavern, Toronto
Metric - Apr 26 - Scotia Bank Arena, Toronto

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Slowcity.ca Open Mic Night - baby its still cold outside edition; Wild Rivers, L.A.Foster, Radiant Baby, Bailen and David Gray

By Will McGuirk

Tonight’s open mic - it’s yet another snowy edition so lets see if we can warm up with these tracks from Wild Rivers, L.A. Foster, Radiant Baby, Bailen and David Gray.

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Radiant Baby Feb 23 - The Baby G, Toronto
Wild Rivers Feb 27 - Opera House, Toronto; Feb 28 - Mill’s Hardware, Hamilton
David Gray Jun 7 - Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto

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Slowcity.ca Open Mic Night - baby its cold outside edition

By Will McGuirk

Always like an open mic, good place to gather, chill, meet, collaborate, hear new tunes, reconnect with the old, so we have a new feature on slowcity.ca - our open mic; tonight we welcome Aerialists, Tariq, Merival, Bob Sumner, Abigail Lapell to the mic, all airing new tracks.

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Bob Sumner Feb 1, The Dakota Tavern, Toronto
Aerialists Feb 6, The Burdock, Toronto
Tariq
Merival Feb 7, The Burdock, Toronto
Abigail Lapell Feb 27 , The Burdock, Toronto

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Chilly launches The Gonzervatory Apr 26 with livestream concert from Paris, France

Chilly Gonzales put out a call for music students and seven have been selected to join Gonzo for an eight day all-expenses-paid residential musical performance workshop in Paris, France. Guest professors include Peaches, Jarvis Cocker, SoCalled and others. The Gonzervatory will convene with a livestreamed performance to take place at 8 p.m. CET on his website -> 
Chilly has also released his Live At Massey Hall performance as a full album, digital only. Sign me up if it comes out on vinyl. For now its on your fave streaming site.

Ottawa's MEGAPHONO fest pop-ups in Toronto and Montreal

Trails is just one of the over 70 artists performing at MEGAPHONO in Ottawa Feb 8 to 10, 2018. Trails is also one of several artists playing pre-fest showcases in Toronto and Montreal. She joins Willie Thrasher and Linda Saddleback as well as King Kimbit Feb 5 at The Burdock in TO and Moonfruits steps in for King Kimbit at the La Salla Rossa in the City of Saints the following night.
Alongside such luminaries as Lido Pimienta, Steven Lambke, Daniel Romano's Ancient Shapes, Nap Eyes and Nick Ferrio, MEGAPHONO features a Native North American Gathering with Duke Redbird, the aforementioned Thrasher and Saddleback, Eric Landry, Leland Bell, Alanis Obomsawin and more. The full line-up is on the website plus tickets, schedule, conference deets and all that other vital info. Lucky Ottawa is all I can say.