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Friday, November 18: Sarah Greene (with Paul Kolinski and Tania Gill) and Vanessa John’s FarAwayGirls at Tranzac

This Friday, join us for the final Sarah Greene presents show of the year, featuring special guest, FarAwayGirls.

7:30 pm Sarah Greene (with Paul Kolinski and Tania Gill)
8:30 pm FarAwayGirls (trio)
Tranzac Southern Cross Lounge (292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto)
PWYC (generously)
Please note Tranzac has a masking policy

Re: FarAwayGirls:

How far is too far?

Far away perspectives? Locations? Imaginations? How does one define what exactly is far away?
These two rollicking, perambulatory mortals (Vanessa, on electric guitar and Alex on bass and tenor sax) crossed paths many moons ago…

They’ve explored their own independent expeditions but, no matter how far they meander.. They always manage to find their way back to each other which results in the collaboration and generation of sounds. In addition, this pair have met other likeminded vagabonds throughout their journeys which often accompany and add much conscience to the creation.

Far away can be considered to be both objective and subjective.. While these two create to demonstrate their own interpretations of what far away means to them.. What does far away mean to you?

Joined for this show by Paul on drums.

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My usual third Friday of the month slot in December at Tranzac will be a Barnyard Drama Singalong (Friday, December 16, 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm) so please come by for that.

Friday, October 21: Sarah Greene & Paul Kolinski; Sweet Pea and Joules the Fox 

My monthly residency at Tranzac will feature Sweet Pea (full band set); Joules the Fox (on tour from Germany) and an opening duo set by me and Paul.

Paul and I have been looking forward to playing with Sweet Pea for a while now and adding Joules to the bill is icing on the cake. I had the pleasure of seeing Joules play at Folk Music Ontario this past weekend and was struck by the originality, intimacy and quirkiness of her songs. This is going to be an early one folks!

6:30 pm Sarah & Paul
7:30 pm Sweet Pea
8:30 pm Joules the Fox

PWYC (as always)

Sunday, September 25: In Basements on Sundays #139 • Sarah Greene, Paul Kolinski & Tania Gill. 7 pm – 10 pm, PWYC

This Sunday, I’m playing Shawn William Clarke‘s series, In Basements On Sundays (#139!) with Paul Kolinski and Tania Gill.

This is the first time that Tania and Paul and I will be playing together as a trio and Paul and Tania will also be playing solo sets. Rest assured that the basement of Wenona Craft Beer Lodge (1069 Bloor St W near Havelock) is much nicer and cozier than the basement pictured here.

I’m playing a show this Friday, August 19 in Tranzac’s Southern Cross Lounge with Jessie Dara. She is wonderful! I highly recommend you come.

Jessie’s new album, Cyanotype Child, is available on Bandcamp:

Cyanotype Child is the first full-length album of Jessie Dara, a Canadian singer/songwriter living in Toronto, ON. Recorded between 2015 and 2019, the album chronicles efforts at self-embrace in unreconciled reflections, a search for what we can come back to in a constancy of seasons and imperfectly striving towards change. Captured in narrative lyricism and imprinting imagery: a “well-worn suit of wishes”, the truth a river knows about redemption, dreams lost in their own reflection, the observing moon on the other side of a game of peek-a-boo; the abstract and the physical active players in the songs.

Weaving dreamy folk pop with soulful lines of Rhodes piano and brass the effect here is warm and the delivery to a meeting place in the tender human condition direct. From out of the shades of indigo that a life lived is painted in, here is a songwriter trying to capture something of inner being, the cyanotype child coming into focus, feeling its way towards the light.

My monthly Tranzac residency is back: this Friday, July 15 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm with Gaye Zimmerman-Huycke and Tania Gill on piano! 

My Tranzac residency rolls on as summer is at peak delightfulness. A quick note that if you come by for the show, there is also a patio this week in the club’s Green P Parking lot for Fringe (Fringe’s POSTSCRIPT Patio); so consider checking that out before or after.

I’ll play an opening set at 7:30 pm, backed by Tania Gill on piano; then my July special guest Gaye Zimmerman-Huycke will knock your socks off with her songs. I have known Gaye for nearly twenty years (!) as she is part of a truly musical, magical family. But her songwriting only came into full view more recently, as she’s been sharing songs that often sound like they could be a hundred years old.

Gaye Zimmerman-Huycke is a singer/songwriter and guitarist who has been playing in bands since she was 16 and writing and singing songs nearly all her life. She has sung professionally for children and their families for the last twenty-five years. Gaye is currently a member of the wee Scottish band Calendon County and in the big pick-up band Gordon’s Acoustic Living Room, which has a long-running residency at Free Times Cafe. She is thrilled to be playing her songs in Tranzac’s Southern Cross Lounge.

Doors: 6:30 pm
Sarah & Tania: 7:30 pm
Gaye Zimmerman-Huycke: 8:30 pm

PWYC (pass the hat) as always. Hope to see you there!

** please note: Tranzac has a masking policy in effect

Friday, June 17: Sarah Greene (with Tania Gill) and Erika Werry and the Alphabet (duo) at Tranzac

Playing a sweet little (early) monthly this month in the Southern Cross Lounge. Doors: 6:30 pm; show: 7 pm. I’m opening, with accompaniment by Tania Gill, and then Erika Werry and Mike Hopkins (the Alphabet, duo) will play at 8 pm. Done by 9 pm, PWYC. Hope to see you there!

Friday, December 31: Support The Arts Cabaret – NYE Edition. 8 pm, $15 (proceeds go to TRANZAC’s bar renovations GoFundMe)

Throughout the pandemic my friend Vicki Fraser has hosted a series of Support The Arts Cabaret nights on Zoom and they have consistently been a fun, uplifting, connecting experience. She hosted a virtual NYE gathering last year and … well … here we are again.

Tomorrow’s Support The Arts Cabaret – NYE Edition – will kick off at 8 pm and go until 9:30 pm or 10 pm (you’ve got plenty of time to listen to tunes and toast the New Year post-Zoom). Vicki has made this a fundraiser for TRANZAC. Proceeds will go towards our bar renovations GoFundMe, which is now past 20% of its goal. Tickets are $15 and available here.

Featuring:

Dave Muir
Rebecca Campbell
Bernd Licht and Georga Urban
Paul Forrester
Ben Sures
Todd Harrison and Virginia Dimoglou
Dave Clark
Gaye Zimmerman
Sarah Greene
Bob Wiseman

And your host, Vicki Fraser

Tickets available here:

https://myevent.com/supporttheartscabaretnyeforthetranzac

Saturday, April 3: Feature Performance at Virtual Open Mic

For the past year (!?) during this pandemic Todd Harrison and Virginia Dimoglou have been hosting a Zoom open stage on Saturday nights, greatly increasing a sense of community for the dozen or so regulars who “go”. A while ago they started having feature performers the first Saturday of every month, and Todd kindly asked if I would be the feature performer for April, so Saturday, April 3 I will be playing four songs (vs the usual two).

We are raising money this Saturday, April 3 for Encampment Support Network. Throughout the pandemic ESN has been doing amazing work advocating for and assisting people living in encampments in Toronto. This is particularly important right now because the City of Toronto is currently trying to evict everyone living in the encampments by April 6.

Everyone is welcome to come and listen and if you like get on the wheel (the wheel randomly selects who will play next) and play a song. The open stage runs from 8 pm – 10 pm.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/singinyourhomes