Welcome to The Sundown Sessions: A monthly music series featuring talented Canadian indie artists of all genres! Created & hosted by artists Amy Craze & Tiffany Luvv.

For December's session, we will be returning to the legendary Rivoli (duh)!

We have a phenomenal lineup of Avery Raquel, Sixxera, Jakin & Lyubov Kay! 

Doors open at 6:30pm and the show starts at 7pm. 

Come support indie artists and their incredible music!

Beverly Glenn‑Copeland takes over Toronto for a transcendent evening of community music.

Beverly Glenn-Copeland and Elizabeth Copeland bring an evening of deep resonance, where music, language, and spirit converge toward healing and connection. Glenn, the visionary singer, songwriter, and composer, alongside Elizabeth, the celebrated author, theatre artist, and educator, in a collaborative performance exploring creativity as a force for collective renewal. Glenn’s The One Ahead, his first new album in nearly two decades, channels joyful gratitude and the unyielding pulse of life. Together, they shape a shared practice of song and story where community itself becomes the art form. 

Also performing are Kamra and Topanga Trio. 

Kamra, a recording artist and cultural worker of Igbo Nigerian descent based in Yellowknife, NT, constructs electroacoustic environments that reimagine how we listen, move, and relate. Their projects: Activation Residency and Forest Fringe Farm, transform community and land into living frameworks for creative practice. 

St. John’s based Topanga Trio is singer-songwriters and multi-instrumentalists Katie Baggs, Carole Bestvater, and Valmy who meld guitar, violin, bass, and piano into radiant, harmony-driven arrangements. Their music embodies the strength of collaboration and the sustaining power of song.

This event is presented in collaboration by Burn Down the Capital, Venus Fest and The Music Gallery. 

Event schedule (subject to change):

7:00 pm Kamra
7:45 pm Beverly Glenn-Copeland & Elizabeth Copeland
9:15 pm Topanga Trio

Sounds of Solidarity 3: Rebuild

Join us for Sounds of Solidarity 3: Rebuild, an evening of art, music, poetry, and community dedicated to the power of resilience and renewal. As our people continue to face destruction and displacement, we come together to celebrate life, honour our roots, and take action toward rebuilding what has been lost.

This year’s theme, Rebuild, is both a reflection and a call to action, to restore our culture, strengthen our community, and uplift one another through unity and creativity. Through every song, every poem, and every shared moment, we reaffirm our connection to our heritage and to the people who continue to endure with courage and grace.

What to expect:

• An incredible lineup of artists, musicians, and poets sharing their voices, stories, and sounds through powerful performances that celebrate our collective strength

• Local vendors showcasing unique handmade crafts and cultural treasures

• Traditional homemade food bursting with the taste and spirit of home

All proceeds from this event will be split between the Rammun Foundation, and Sudan Solidarity Collective. Attendees can also choose to top up their ticket purchase with an additional donation, every contribution makes a difference.

The event will be livestreamed on YouTube for those unable to attend in person.

people | places | records Tranzac Club Southern Cross Residency continues! This month we'll feature sets from Leslie Ting+Germaine Liu and Evan Ziporyn+ContaQt!

Leslie and Germaine are fresh off new productions of "What Brings You In," an immersive production centred around first-time experiences of attending therapy. The album version of the project was released previously via PPR in stereo and binaural versions, and the violin+percussion duo's explorative process will be featured here with improvisations and pieces from the project.

Evan Ziporyn+ContaQt are also fresh off new releases and shows, including their recent ensemble residency at Western University and the new album, "Art Decade," out on Cantaloupe Music. For this show, the group will perform ambient selections from the album and from their "Virtual ContaQt" series/releases. Half of the members from the group will be present in person while the other half will join remotely from other locations for an in-person/virtual hybrid experience.

Saturday November 22nd, 10pm-12am
292 Brunswick Ave
PWYC!

Graphics by Erika Verhagen

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)

Performing with Lyubov Kay for Merla Mae’s National Ice Cream Day Event, 6:30pm-7:30pm.

Live in-person/hybrid performance of new music for combined ensembles Bell Dreams and Contaqt, two experimental music ensembles with members working across Saskatchewan, Ontario, British Columbia, and the United States.

Featuring:

Jeff Morton, pedal steel guitar, keyboard, electronics

Edith Skeard, flute, voice, electronics

Ernie Dulanowksy, modular synth, keyboards, electronics

Jerry Pergolesi, trumpet, percussion, electronics

Sarah Fraser Raff, violin

Allison Wiebe, piano

Andrew Noseworthy, guitar, electronics

Presented by Unheard Sound Collective and PAVED Arts as part of the annual Sounds Like: An Audio Festival, in partnership with ContaQt.

people places records presents:

Erich Barganier: "Geisslerlieder" Album Release Show

w/guests Emmanuel Jacob Lacopo, Patrick O'Reilly and Andrew Noseworthy

August 8th 2023

8:00 pm – 11:00 pm / Doors: 7:00 pm

La Sala Rossa

4848 Boul. Saint-Laurent, Montréal, QC, Canada

Erich Barganier (he/him) is a composer &

multi-instrumentalist who writes music that explores

experimental technology, the edge of noise,

improvisation, generative processes, and new forms

of notation. Recent collaborators include Mark

Stewart, Noise Catalogue, BlackBox Ensemble,

House on Fire & Instruments of Happiness.

Barganier's new album is a grotesque antithesis to the stereotypical “guitar god,” centered on the idea of masculine failure through the lens of the electric guitar solo. All of the guitars on the album are prepared, digitally manipulated, detuned, struck with hammers, combs, and pipes; and all performed by the composer.

The fragility of the "ideal" masculine image based on strength drives the downward-spiral narrative of the record– a flailing and helpless dance rooted in tight, restrictive form that slowly breaks apart over the course of five tracks.

"Geisslerlieder" is available everywhere August 3rd. For more info about the album and to preorder visit: https://peopleplacesrecords.bandcamp.com/.../geisslerlieder

Open Ears: YANG CHEN AND GUESTS PRESENTS

7:00pm

The Registry Theatre

122 Frederick St.

Kitchener, ON

longing for _, the debut album of Toronto-based percussionist Yang Chen manages to do the unthinakable: showcase their audacious eclecticism, sharp curatorial sensibility, and exceptional skill all at the same time. As such, Chen is right at home on the celebrated cross-border imprint People Places Records, a label known for embracing young, vibrant artists operating loosely within the bounds of contemporary composition.

longing for _ includes collaborations with one of People Places’ head honchos, guitarist-composer Andrew Noseworthy alongside other respected (and largely emerging) talent such as Yaz Lancaster, Connie Li, Jason Doell, Sara Constant, Sarian Sankoh, Stephanie Orlando and Charles Lutvak. On it, Chen performs on everything from bicycle to steel pan evoking styles that span elegiac R&B to full-on electroacoustic abstraction.

Intersection Music & Arts Co-Presents: Christopher Tignor live in Toronto, ON at Arraymusic!

Join us for the Toronto date of acclaimed Brooklyn-based experimental composer and violinist Christopher Tignor’ spring tour where he will wage a self described, “war against what electroacoustic music might be, solo, 100% live, no tracks or loops, just blood, sweat, tears and a lot of rosin.”

With special guests Alex Ven+Andrew Noseworthy’s Ambient Works.

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023

7:30pm doors, 8pm show

Arraymusic

155 Walnut Ave., Toronto, ON, M6J 3W3

15$/10$ students