November 8, 2pm matinee @ The Mansion
$5 door, kids under 12 free!

Lake of Stew Official Website
Lake Of Stew is a six-piece acoustic string band based in Montreal, Quebec. Featuring a rotating cast of lead vocalists and impressive full-group harmonies, they sing a wide variety of original tunes, ranging from waltzes to sing-alongs, barnburners to boogies.
The [...]

Oct 31, 2-6pm in the Skeleton Park neighborhood:

2:30pm @ 94 Main St: The House is Black n’ friends
3pm @ 265 Raglan Rd: Rueben deGroot n’ friends
3:30pm @ Main St. & Raglan Rd: Slaves of Spanky n’ friends
4pm @ Store Famous (Barrie & York): PS I Love You n’ friends
4:30pm @ Frank’s Fish & Chips: [...]

The Gertrudes, PS I Love You and False Face featured as part of the Apple Crisp Showcase at POP Montreal,
plus we’ll be screening work by the Apple Crisp Music Video Club!
The Jupiter Room, 3874 St. Laurent, Sat Oct 3rd, 8pm, $5

Saturday July 11th 8pm
@ The Artel (205 Sydenham St)
$5 at the door
The Silt

www.myspace.com/thesilt
The silt is a trio of multi-instrumentalists named Ryan Driver (vocals, nylon-string guitar, drums, analog synth, flute), Doug Tielli (vocals, elec. guitar, trombone, bass, melodica) and Marcus Quin (simultaneous bass and drums, vocals, bass clarinet, er-hu, lap steel). Since 1999, they have been [...]

Velvet Underground Tribute Night
Tues June 9, 9pm @ The Mansion (506 Princess Street)
10 Bands performing the 10 songs on the album ‘Loaded’:
PS I Love You
False Face
Mississippi Grover
Hawkward
Cities Turn to Sand
The House is Black
TimKnightUs
Benjamin Nelson
Rueben DeGroot
The Gertrudes

PS I Love You

False Face

Rueben deGroot

Friday May 1, 8PM
@ The Artel - Arts Accommodation and Venue (205 Sydenham Street)
$5 door, all ages
A night of experimental folk:

The Weather Station
“When The Weather Station’s Tamara Lindeman (also of Entire Cities) felt called to express the pain of recent losses, she picked up her banjo, and random household objects, and taught herself to slowly [...]

Saturday April 4, 9PM
@ BarNone (394 Princess Street)
$5 door, 19+ event

FemBots
“FemBots use “junkstruments,” but their music’s far from disposable…” — Eye Weekly

“There’s a truly spectacular class of independent music coming out of Canada, and it’s so frustratingly genre agnostic and post-everything that to even bother labeling it is an exercise in futility. Toronto duo FemBots [...]

CFRC Funding Drive Festival 2009
Tuesday February 3 @ The Grad Club
Advance Tickets $7 - $12 on sale at Lower Carruthers Hill
Featuring: Magic Jordan / The Gertrudes / False Face / Cities Turn to Sand
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Tuesday February 24, 7PM
@ The Next Church, 89 Colborne Street
$5 door, All Ages, homemade dessert for sale!

Pete Samples, a multi-instrumentalist and a one-of-a-kind creative force constructs an electronic sound heavily influenced by rock and roll. Combining unique instrumentation with magic tricks and an engaging persona, this solo artist’s musical creations are an ethereal and fantastical [...]

Tuesday January 27, 7PM
@ The Next Church on 89 Colborne Street (NOTE: different venue!)
$5 door, All Ages, homemade dessert for sale!

Gentleman Reg has been performing in Canada since the turn of the millennium, garnering attention for his two acclaimed full-lengths, 2002’s Make Me Pretty and 2004’s Darby & Joan. With a voice from the [...]