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Shout Out / Review: Bahamas @ The Dakota Tavern, 6 Aug.

Aug 9, 2009, 5:45pm

Shout Out / Review: Bahamas @ The Dakota Tavern, 6 Aug.

Looking back at my weekly listings, I've been recommending an act called Bahamas ever since January of this year. At this point, the band/solo project had no MySpace, and I can't remember what I knew of the band in order to recommend it. The next month, Bob saw them perform at Tranzac. If I didn't know it before, I knew once he posted his photos of the gig that Bahamas' Afie Jurvanen was playing live (at least occasionally) with one of my favourite drummers, Greg Millson from Great Lake Swimmers . [...]

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