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September 5
RON NIGRINI 'Undisguised Hearts'
CD Release
$16 adv / $18
Songwriter, guitarist, craftsman, poet - just some of the words that come to mind when you mention Ron Nigrini. His sweet style has been called "Jim Croce meets Harry Chapin". Ron has been performing for more than 35 years and has a list of credits far too numerous to list but which includes being the opener for The Mamas & The Papas for a crowd 10 000 at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto.
A refugee from Toronto area coffeehouses playing his own brand of folky pop in the '70's, Nigrini actually got his start in 1965 in a duo called The Coachmen. By 1967 he had joined Dan's Heard and drifted around from act to act until 1970 when he finally decided to go solo starting his days on the coffeehouse circuit in the American midwest and eastern seaboard.
Nigrini and his wife live in Commanda, Ontario. He still writes and records and successfully sells out his yearly pilgrimige to Hugh's Room. |
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September 6
ADI BRAUN
with Geoge Koller and Kevin Barrett
$15 adv / $18
Born in Toronto, Adi grew up in Europe surrounded by music and musicians. Her
parents were opera singers, and her father, Victor Braun, was one of Canada’s leading
baritones. Her first instrument was piano, which she began studying at the age of six.
With no formal voice lessons, she made her first pop/jazz recording at age 19. Hearing a
natural voice, her parents encouraged her to follow in the family tradition; upon returning
to Canada, Adi trained classically, obtaining her Bachelor of Music Degree in Vocal
Performance from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music. She began her singing
career as a classical recitalist, a soloist with orchestra and on stage with Canadian opera
companies, alongside her brother, baritone Russell Braun. A co-founder of Toronto’s
classical cabaret company “Blue Rider Musical Productions,” Adi started “singing
sideways” and soon returned to the music she loved, what she calls “cabarazz”, drawing
on aspects from both cabaret and jazz. After winning a local competition in 2001, she
was catapulted to centre stage as one of Canada’s leading jazz vocalists. |
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September 7
GARY FARMER & the TROUBLEMAKERS
CANCELLED
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September 10
SAM PHILLIPS
$22 adv / $25
For the first time in her 20-year career, singer-songwriter Sam Phillips goes it alone on the curiously titled Don't Do Anything. Having taken on multiple styles, Phillips has seemed most comfortable as a woman with an acoustic guitar ever since 2001's Fan Dance. In a session with host David Dye, Phillips displays her songwriting prowess with just that, accompanied only violinist and guitarist Erik Gorfain.
Don't Do Anything seems prime for lyrical investigation: It's her first album since her divorce from husband and longtime producer T-Bone Burnett. Still, she manages to convey a universal message of strength and vulnerability through varied perspectives and clever lyrics.
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September 11 & 12
DAVID LINDLEY
$30 adv / $33
Multi-instrumentalist David Lindley performs music that redefines the word "eclectic." Lindley, well known for his many years as the featured accompanist with Jackson Browne, and leader of his own band El Rayo-X, has long championed the concept of world music. The David Lindley electro-acoustic performance effortlessly combines American folk, blues, and bluegrass traditions with elements from African, Arabic, Asian, Celtic, Malagasy, and Turkish musical sources. Lindley incorporates an incredible array of stringed instruments including but not limited to Kona and Weissenborn Hawaiian lap steel guitar, Turkish saz and chumbus, Middle Eastern oud, and Irish bouzouki. The eye-poppingly clad "Mr. Dave's" uncanny vocal mimicry and demented sense of humor make his onstage banter a highlight of the show. |
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September 13
REBECCA JENKINS
CD Release
$22 adv / $25
Joel Bakan - Guitar
Colleen Allen - Saxophone
Bruce Meikle - Bass
Liam Macdonald - Drums
Rebecca Jenkins is one of those rare multi-talented people who makes it all look effortless. As an actor, she embodies her character down to every last nuance. As a singer, her voice carries a warmth that feels both real and ethereal.
Jenkins burst onto the Canadian film scene with her charismatic acting and singing performance in Anne Wheeler's "Bye Bye Blues", for which she received a Best Actress Genie Award. Her feature films include "Interstate 60", "Bob Roberts", "Darrow", "South of Wawa", "Cowboys Don't Cry" and Daniel MacIvor adaptations; "Past Perfect" and "Marion BridgeAs a singer Rebecca has toured and recorded as a back-up vocalist with the Parachute Club and
Jane Siberry. Rebecca still continues to perform jazz material and her own songs in numerous contexts - before symphony orchestras, concert halls and clubs, on radio and television shows, at music festivals, on compilation albums and film soundtracks. She was recently nominated for a Genie Award for Achievement in Music - Best Song for "Something's Coming" in the feature film Wilby Wonderful.
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