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Toronto – Earlier this week singer-songwriter Mike Evin played to a small but appreciative crowd at Kensington Market's Bread & Circus. The Montreal-born and sometimes Toronto-based musician has just moved back to the big city. He brought an upbeat attitude to his set, playing songs from both the archives and his latest album "Do You Feel The World?" Opening for Mike was Toronto-based Kristen Cudmore of Language Arts . Hailing from Nova Scotia, Kristen alternated between nylon-string & electric guitars, a synth, and a [...]

Toronto – Earlier this week singer-songwriter Mike Evin played to a small but appreciative crowd at Kensington Market's Bread & Circus. The Montreal-born and sometimes Toronto-based musician has just moved back to the big city. He brought an upbeat attitude to his set, playing songs from both the archives and his latest album "Do You Feel The World?" Opening for Mike was Toronto-based Kristen Cudmore of Language Arts . Hailing from Nova Scotia, Kristen alternated between nylon-string & electric guitars, a synth, and a [...]

Toronto - I have to admit, my Thursday evening NXNE gameplan was cobbled together about 5 minutes after I woke from a nap. I read the bio's for the bands playing on that evening, listened to what music snippets I could, and drew up an itinerary. When I'm in a state like that, I naturally lean towards either Mozart piano concertos, or chill singer songwriter fare. This is why it's no huge surprise that one of the bands I chose was a chill singer songwriter Lindy at the Bread & Circus. Over the [...]

• LINDY - Beautifully Undone

I've been putting off reviewing this record. You can probably tell by the fact that it's already been out about three weeks. That's because reviewing it requires me to listen to it more than once. This is music for people who hate music. It is music for the shirtless late-twenties fuck at the back of the crowd at some disgusting Gomorrah of a festival, eyeing up girls half his age and dancing behind his ridiculous over-sized sunglasses. It is music for people whose aesthetic year zero is April 1995, and for whom V Festival is the essence of [...]

Alanna Clarke promo photo Toronto - With only a handful of bands on my "must see" list and none of them playing Thursday, I wandered into Bread and Circus for the Factor Breakthrough Series - Best of Alberta, mostly because I'm from Alberta, and one showcase of bands I knew nothing about seemed as good a bet as another. Alanna Clarke opened, and I've got to hand it to her, the girl's got talent. The 19 year old singer-songwriter from Cochrane, Alberta impressed with a set of [...]

Toronto – You know I really like Bread & Circus. It's a super laid back place in the heart of Kensington Market and it easily lends itself to intimate musical experiences. It's been a full year since I've last frequented the joint, but I am now going to make an effort to get back there over the summer. While the drink selection isn't huge, the prices are reasonable, and the staff is friendly. Thursday evening began at the Circus with Steph Macpherson, a singer-songwriter based out of Victoria B.C. It was a foot-tapping experience. She played well-constructed [...]

new long_one from Scottish indie-pop-rockers the THE VIEW has taken a leak. fyi back in the '07 their debut was Mercury nominated. BREAD AND CIRCUSES D.O.B : March 14, 2011 Label : Columbia Tracklist : 1. Grace 2. Underneath The Lights 3. Tragic Magic 4. Girl 5. Life 6. Friend 7. Beautiful 8. Blondie 9. Sunday 10. Walls 11. Happy 12. The Best Lasts Forever via : Rapidshare, Torrents wotyougot

Después de mucho meditar, los muchachos de The View decidieron cual será el titulo de su tercer disco , que está proximo a ser lanzado: Bread And Circuses . En el momento en que estaban ultimando detalles del disco, los miembros de la banda optaron por este titulo, en reemplazo de su idea inicial, The Best Lasts Forever . La fecha de lanzamiento para el re-nombrado trabajo está pactada para el 14 de marzo. Paralelamente, The View ha anunciado los detalles de una gira íntima por el Reino Unido, que comenzará [...]

Toronto - I dig sketch comedy. It's funny. It's short enough to hold my borderline ADHD attention span. It can be both thought-provoking and mind-numbing; good things in equal measure. My only quam is that sometimes, it lacks originality. Solution? Whip a healthy dose of improv into the mix, and BAM! You have yourself some PB and J . (READ: No, I am not referring to the nutty, delicious spread famous for it's connection to jam and childhood days of yore). The PB and J Sketchprov Show is a hilariously funny comedy troupe [...]

Toronto - I have to be honest. Almost every day, between my mid-morning Americano and post-dinner catch-up on PerezHilton.com, I ask myself a question that has been asked by the human species since the dawn of time: why me? Usually, this inner rhetoric follows an event or series of events so ironic that it causes me to briefly question the very fabric of my moral being. For instance: just last week after helping an elderly man through the turnstile at Bathurst station, I became lodged between the metal arms. A few minor scrapes and one broken sandal strap later, [...]

Toronto – Now in its 16 th year, it's clear that NXNE has become an increasingly important landmark on the musical calendar. Just trying to decide what shows to go to on any given night is a daunting task. This year it was important for me to make sure that I not only checked out bands I had never heard before, but preferably at venues I had never seen before. As great as the old stomping grounds are, it's nice to check out what the other Toronto spots have to offer. This made it a natural [...]

Maylee & PEGWEE POWER!!: photo by Michael Ligon Plants & Animals [ MySpace ] (March 12, 12 am, Lee's Palace): I already recounted how my Friday night during last week's Canadian Musicfest had started out. I ended up in line at Lee's Palace, optimistic I'd get in to the Billions / Chromewaves showcase but after waiting in line for an hour and half (and missing both The Russian Futurists' and The Acorn's sets) I just about threw in the towel, but fortunately the friendly people [...]

Ghost Bees—June 20, 2009 @ Bread and Circus Oh, what an incredible ending to the night/festival... Ghost Bees were absolutely wonderful! Ghost Bees: Erl King (Live @ Bread and Circus, June 20, 2009)

I'm playing live at CMW in Toronto, Canada, March 14th! Bread and Circus time: 9pm 299 Augusta Ave Toronto, ON, M5T1R9 Tags: bread and circus , Canadian , canadian music week , sofia talvik , toronto canada Related posts New interview [...]

There's been quite a bit of press for The Drake Hotel 's 5 year anniversary over the past few weeks; that is, the anniversary of its make-over and relaunch by entrepreneur Jeff Stober . In the past five years, the Drake has become many things to many people, and the various factions that have attempted to make the Drake their own have often bumped against each other. Members of the dance rock outfit OPOPO play the Drake Hotel Underground during the year end "What's [...]

• Great Bloomers - Catching Up

What a weekend it was . 2 nights, 2 venues, 24 acts (including hosts Iron Cobra and The Flirts ), more than 8 hours of entertainment, minus two 20 minute intermissions, and a lot of very impressed audience members, many of whom left talking excitedly about acts they'd not known before these shows. Julie Tepperman played anxious bride Rachel in Convergence's Theatre's side-splitting excerpt from their play "Yichud/Seclusion", Friday night at Bread and Circus (this and all subsequent photos in this post are by Skye Regan). [...]

So, I haven't exactly been keeping a strict schedule of daily posts this past week. The truth is, I've still been "internet-ing" plenty - but mostly for other people; answering interview questions, sending on hi-res photos, etc., etc. Melissa D'Agostino and her character Lupe (who's on the bill for Saturday's Comedy Bar show) were interviewed in Torontoist this week. And it sure has paid off; Gracing the Stage (and this weekend's launch parties ) has been extensively profiled by Torontoist's theatre writer, [...]

It is with great pride and pleasure that I announce a weekend of top notch music, comedy, and theatre, to officially launch this website. Yes, we've been posting daily (or just about) since January 4th , but on February 20th and 21st, gracingthestage.ca will be announcing its presence in the real world in a BIG way, with two nights showcasing some of Toronto's best music, comedy, and theatre artists, at two of the newest and most exciting performance spaces in the city. Maylee Todd leads members of Toronto's indie rock community in a [...]