STANDING ROOM ONLY with Gilad Hekselman (guitar) Patrick Mulcahy (bass) Jon Deitemyer (drums) In 2011 Patricia Barber has just finished a new ‘live’ album of the Patricia Barber Quartet recorded ‘ by Chris Grabowski at the wildly popular Green Mill residency. Monday Night, vol2 is available through her website: patriciabarber.com She is also putting the finishing [...]
Featuring Cindy Church & Wendell Ferguson Lee Harvey Osmond James Keelaghan The Claytones T.Nile Ginger St. James Dear Sister Quique Escamilla
While “cover” bands struggle to emulate every nuance of their musical mentors’ original arrangements, the five members of Glendale One choose instead to “uncover” the richness of the Beatles 60’s song library. Following a simple rule of not allowing themselves to use the original arrangements has resulted in some magical moments and an eclectic and evolving musical [...]
Also featuring singing group Airborne 11 and pianist Yuval Fichman Tenor Emilio Fina studied Voice and Opera Performance at the Royal Conservatory of Music Toronto Glenn Gould School under the careful guidance of esteemed vocal teacher Helen Simmie. Emilio sang his first opera role at the tender age of thirteen in Opera Mississauga’s production [...]
There is no other keyboardist in the history of rock & roll with a more stunning, voluminous résumé than Ian McLagan. He was the animating force behind The Faces & The Small Faces and has toured and recorded with: The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Springsteen, Taj Mahal, John Hiatt, David Lindley, Paul [...]
The search is over! Newfoundland folk-rock stars, Sherman Downey & the Ambiguous Case, have won the CBC Searchlight Contest with their song, “Thick as Thieves“. The winner was revealed on Q by host, Jian Ghomeshi. Hundreds of bands from across the country submitted songs to the national CBC challenge. Sherman Downey & the Ambiguous Case beat out Cranbrook’s Good Ol’ Goats [...]
Diane Lee-Clemons has music embedded in her soul! This Floridian hails from Clearwater but now resides in Toronto, Ontario with her family. With a dad who sang in a traveling quartet, an uncle who was the first black CEO of Word Records and an entire family that grew up singing in church, she developed a love [...]
Buckwheat Zydeco, the band USA Today called “zydeco trailblazers,” won a Grammy Award for LAY YOUR BURDEN DOWN in the Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album category. The band has been nominated five previous times in three different categories. This is their first Grammy Award. OffBeat called LAY YOUR BURDEN DOWN “the band’s most adventurous [...]
The Al Lukas Band will be in session at Hugh’s Room on Thursday July 4th, 2013. These musicians have their ears on different genres of music all the time. Carson Webber and Mike Hakomaki, as well as other special guests, all have a distinct voice and a different role to play while telling a story [...]
Tim Tamashiro is joined by the Mark Eisenman Trio at Hugh’s Room for a night of, in his words “drinky jazz, great songs and bad jokes. Eat, drink, laugh and talk all night long. The drinky jazz dress code is snazzy drunk. Bring along your funnest friends. Please Tim Tamashiro is joined by the Mark [...]