Sam-R @ NXNE
Saturday, June 13 @ 10 PM - The Pilot
Sam-r is a Toronto-based hip-hop/blues artist, “a rapping drummer telling honest stories of resilience, culture, and community.”
Sam-r is a Canadian artist of Lebanese-Syrian heritage, blending the raw storytelling of hip-hop with the soul of blues. Known for his rare combination of rapping and drumming, and his unique style of storytelling, his music reflects the struggles and triumphs of his immigrant experience.
Lineup
7 PM - Doors
8 PM: C.Ruth & the Mango Street Trio
9 PM: Tell It To Sweeney
10 PM: Sam-r
11 PM: TAREK FUNK
12 AM: Honeybear, The Band
NXNE 2026 is 19+, valid IDs will be checked upon arrival.
NXNE is Canada’s most important discovery music festival, presenting thousands of essential emerging artists, often just before they break, from across Canada and around the world - since 1995. And applications to play the festival are now open.
From June 10-14, 2026, over 30 of Toronto’s best live music venues will host some of the best new bands in the world.
For NXNE 2026, we welcome musicians and fans back to NXNE, undeniably the ultimate club-hopping experience in Toronto. Each venue will feature a skillfully curated program of the best-rising talent from across Canada and around the world for fans to discover before they break onto the world stage.
Identification will be verified upon entry.
We recommend early arrival to avoid capacity restrictions. Set times subject to change - please check nxne.com for latest updates.
HABIBI CULTURE II (Afterparty)
A community arts and culture showcase celebrating SWANA (Southwest Asian and North African) expression and creativity.
HABIBI CULTURE II brings together families, artists, and community for an interactive, multi-sensory experience rooted in culture and connection.
Expect a vibrant mix of art, movement, music, and hands-on activities — designed to be welcoming, participatory, and engaging for all ages and backgrounds. The culturally rich event decor and aesthetics will provide plenty of photo opportunities throughout the space.
PART ONE: DAYTIME CELEBRATION (4:00–7:00 PM) — FREE, ALL AGES
A family-friendly community celebration — children, youth, families and the elderly are encouraged to attend.
Visual arts exhibit featuring local creatives and a dedicated children's showcase of 'little artists' from Durham Region.
Kids zone: Reading circle, arts workshop, song and dance activities and engaging installations.
HABIBI CULTURE community canvas — a public art piece that attendees can co-create.
Live handpan musician, DJ and henna artist
Funded by the City of Oshawa
Sponsors: BOND|ST Event Centre
PART TWO: AFTERPARTY (8:00–11:00 PM) — TICKETED (19+)
A high-energy, live music showcase, mixer and dance party.
Live musicians take the stage to perform sets
DJ spinning Arabic, afrobeats, amapiano and more
Art remains on display as the space transforms into an immersive, late-night cultural experience
Sponsors: BOND|ST Event Centre
About the Organizer: Al Markaz
Al Markaz is a grassroots arts, culture, and impact platform rooted in community. We create spaces that bring people together through storytelling, creativity, and cultural experiences — with a focus on SWANA voices.
Tim Brady — Guitare Électrique @Canada
Le guitariste virtuose et compositeur Tim Brady présente deux concerts qui mettent en lumière la richesse de la création pour guitare électrique à travers le Canada.
La guitare électrique est un instrument voué à la création musicale depuis ses débuts en 1932 – et on ne lâche pas! Ce grand événement sur 2 jours nous présente la création musicale pour guitare électrique à travers le Canada, avec des solistes et compositeurs de Québec, Ontario, Nouvelle-Écosse et Manitoba. Ces concerts feront découvrir une panoplie de styles et d'approches: les influences jazz et folk de Sam Wilson, la musique de chambre avec Instruments of Happiness et ses solistes invités, une musique électro-expérimentale avec Andrew Noseworthy, et 2 pièces solos majeures de Tim Brady. Le concert du 13 novembre sera aussi le lancement du nouvel album double de Tim Brady – For Electric Guitar, sur l'étiquette People Places Records, qui marque le 40ème anniversaire de son premier disque de guitare électrique solo dR.E.aM.s, sorti en 1985.
13 novembre
1ère partie : Soliste – guitare électrique solo – Andrew Noseworthy (Toronto, ON/TNL)
Musique de : Tim Brady « Of Julie’s Dance : Inv. #8 »; Kenyon Duncan « Dissent #3 »; Adam Zolty « Anthill », Javier Dinama « Pieza para guitarra eléctrica n.1-3 », Andrew Noseworhy « Pull up”.
2ième partie : Soliste – guitare électrique solo – Tim Brady (Montréal, QC).
« For Electric Guitar » (2024), création: « Really, Really Solo Electric Guitar Music” (2025)”
Lancement du CD double “For Electric Guitar” (People Places Records)
INTERSECTION DAY 5: “There’s No Place Like Home”
DAY 5: MONDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
Intersection Music & Arts Festival with the Canadian Music Centre and Arraymusic Presents:
LMNL: "THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME"
A multi-locational interactive in-person/online hybrid concert performance of "Rainbow," created by Jerry Pergolesi and Louise Cambell.
Facebook Event Page
FREE and open to the public at both locations.
2pm @ the Canadian Music Centre (20 St. Joseph St.), Arraymusic (155 Walnut Ave.) and streaming online.
Performance livestreaming on:
https://www.facebook.com/intersectionfestival
https://www.twitch.tv/intersectionfestival
Workshops and rehearsals happening on Day 2 and Day 4 (https://intersectionfestival.org/festival/day-4)
Toronto performances led by Andrew Noseworthy (CMC) & Yang Chen (Arraymusic)
Toronto in-person performance featuring: Naomi McCarroll-Butler, Mary-Katherine Finch, Sara Constant, Sarah Fraser Raff, Joyce To, Adrian Irvine and more...
Online performers featuring: Tina Pearson, Yaz Lancaster, Adam Cuthbert, Phong Tran, An Laurence, Priscilla Smith, Paulino Cravens, Bert Power and more...
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Rainbow is a post-modern deconstruction and re-imagining of the classic popular song “Over the Rainbow” sung by actress Judy Garland as the character Dorothy Gale and featured in the 1939 movie “The Wizard of Oz.” In the queer community, the song “Over the Rainbow,” the actress Judy Garland, and the character Dorothy Gale function as signifiers and enduring symbols of vulnerability and defiance, both of which are deeply entrenched in queer life. “Over the Rainbow,” Garland and Dorothy represent a sense of utopian wonder and longing for a place where one belongs. The song appears in the movie when Dorothy is in conflict, unable to control her own circumstances. Her aunt tells her to “find yourself a place where you won't get into any trouble" to which Dorothy muses to her small dog Toto, “Do you suppose there is such a place?” and then proceeds to sing “Over the Rainbow.”
The queer community has forever constructed its own “place” both physical and metaphysical, where “trouble” is a slippery and subjective term; where one creates their own reality on their own terms by re- appropriating contemporary culture for their own purposes. A lasting euphemism derived from the film: the ubiquitous “we're not in Kansas anymore" serves as a commentary on the sense of displacement and belonging in a strange yet familiar place of one’s own making.
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This event would not be possible without support from the Toronto Arts Council, the Toronto Arts Foundation, the City of Toronto, the Canada Council for the Arts, Canadian Heritage, and The SOCAN Foundation.