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Hugh's Room Live, Toronto's roots music destination, had their yearly visit from blues troubadour Guy Davis.  His show spread out from a night of acoustic blues even including a couple of tunes and a spoken word soliloque from a musical he's written (his folks were big Broadway stars). He was joined at the end by Doris Mason who opene...

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Watch Steve Marriner take off on his signature instrument, the mississippi saxophone though he plays a dozen other instruments

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I had only seen Matt Weidinger in a back-up role, but backing up EVERYBODY! He was a real utility man and probably qualified as a "hardest working" sideman in the west end.  When he appeared on the scene as the "new kid on keyboards" he made a big impression and I remember someone telling me he had bought a house.  You don't usually hear musician an...

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Toronto artist (visual and musical) August Knight invited the entire board of the Toronto Blues Society to a special event called Toronto Rocks at the legendary El Mocambo.  Nobody in my circle knew this guy, but a couple of us thought it's a great chance to check out that classy joint and maybe discover a new artist. We were told some blues artists woul...

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Bill King is in his home-away-from-home, the Redwood Theatre, which is a long bike ride from his home in the west end but that hasn't stopped this nearly octegenarian from pedalling over (if the weather is friendly). Maybe not so much these days. He's quite omnipresent at most of the shows I've attended and has forged a great relationship with ...

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