Reminder: NO APRIL SESSION

A quick reminder that the  APRIL session is cancelled due to a conflict with the club’s annual Girls Rock Camp for adult women (and other non-binary people) . But here is some news that may raise your now-flagging spirits: Peter and Ann-Marie are hosting a house concert  for LATOCQ! The band features Claude Méthé (Québécois fiddler) and  David Greely (Louisiana fiddle) and Dana Whittle (guitar). Billed as “A trip inside two French traditions – from Louisiana to Québec – on fiddle and in song”, you can find more information about them, including audio and video clips, on the LATOQC website. For tickets, speak to Read More …

February 2nd: David Woodhead’s Confabulation CD release

There is still time to get your tickets for David’s CD release next Friday, February 2nd, at Hugh’s Room. The show starts at 8:30. More info and tickets are available on the Hugh’s Room Live site. The new CD, Tunnels and Visions, will be available at the show or, if you ask nicely, David might just bring some to the next session. You can listen to some Confabulous tracks on David’s website. By the way, if you haven’t already done so, please change your bookmarks for Hugh’s Room from hughsroom.ca to their new site, Hugh’s Room Live (dot com). Their Read More …

Two upcoming events

Sorry to miss the pre-session reminder last week: things have been a bit mad. Glad a lot of you made it anyway, and we were thrilled to welcome two new players! We wanted to let you know about a couple of things that are happening in the near-ish future, so you can participate if you are interested. On Tuesday, October 24th, both the Scott Library (York) and the Music Library (UofT) will be hosting a Wikipedia contribution event on the theme of Canada 150: Music and belonging.  To participate, all you need is a (free) Wikipedia username. We’re not sure Read More …