Canadian Music Week: Where the Oshawa/Durham bands at?

By Will McGuirk

CMW kicked off Monday May 7 and continues right through until Sunday. Among the hundreds of acts playing there are a few well known acts but thats the key to CMW; its a showcase of the new, the emerging, the bubbling under. With scores of venues, affordable ticketing and a slew of activities and events such as panel discussions, award shows, trade shows, an international showcase focus on the USA for 2018, a hackathon, summits, and a film festival there's no excuse to not get out and enjoy the week. Go see the next big thing now and get the bragging rights. Some of the existing big things involved or performing include Mudhoney, Sloan, Nile Rodgers, Bob Lefsetz, Steve Horowitz and Denise Donlon.

Some of the Oshawa/Durham kats involved include

May 9 Beams @ Lee Palace, Lindi Ortega @ Mod Club

May 10 Jaunt @ Garrison, Do Good Badlies @ Dakota Tavern, West Hammock @ Adelaide Hall

May 11 Crown Lands @ Phoenix

May 12 Sarah Fazackerley @ Paddock, The Standstills @ Horseshoe

Casper Skulls to grow with Audiotree North

Audiotree North will launch Friday May 11 as part of CMW at the Legendary Horseshoe Tavern with Ought, Caspar Skulls, Begonia, Pkew Pkew Pkew and Pony performing. An Audiotree North live session with Casper Skulls has been released. It follows on the session by Lido Pimienta which can be seen here. 

Lido Pimienta focus of Audiotree North video series, CMW launch at the Horseshoe May 11

2017 Polaris Music Prize winner Lido Pimienta performs "Fornicarte es un Arte" at Toronto's Revolution Recordings as part of a new collaboration between Audiotree of Chicago and Paquin Entertainment in TO. The goal is to create a new platform to showcase new acts. Audiotree North will launch Friday May 11 as part of CMW at the Legendary Horseshoe Tavern with Ought, Caspar Skulls, Begonia, Pkew Pkew Pkew and Pony performing. Pup and Begonia have also been featured previously by Audiotree North.

Fabrizio Cammarata to play CMW at the Cameron House

By Will McGuirk

I miss Okkervil River, waiting for new tunes but Fabrizio Cammarata is a fair substitute. The Sicilian singer/songwriter last put out an album in 2011, "Rooms", and has released an EP in the interim. But he is touring still. He will be playing a few times at the Cameron House in TO over the course of Canadian Music Week. "Long Shadows" will feature on his upcoming album due November 2018.

Cammarata says on his website, the song features “total solar eclipse of memory. Two young women. They look alike… but not quite. It’s as if one was the idealized version of the other, the real one: in black and white, she’s naked, in the wild, like an angel, perfect. In color, she’s in a household context, where she can be smiling, crying, yelling at you, violent, let down. It takes a moment to understand. It only takes a total eclipse inside yourself.”

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