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2024/08 Moments August 2024

Toronto, Ontario

Centre for Social Innovation, Spadina:: Innovator drinks @csiTO with special performance at website launch for professional corporation. Music a new original composition on concerns with climate change. Met some old friends, made some new connections. (Centre for Social Innovation, Spadina Avenue, Toronto, Ontario) 20240801

Mackenzie House: Noontime solo electric violin performance of “Farewell”, by @victoriayeh for @downtownyonge summer series. albeit a winter feel. In small courtyard, focusing on the music masked the construction noise of the building being erected directly north. Instrument has a low C string, plus an octaver setting for play low notes, all run through effects pedals including a looper. (Mackenzie House, Bond Street, Toronto, Ontario) 20240802

Newtwonbrook East
Newtwonbrook East: A 40th birthday party turned into a summer backyard partial family reunion. Cousins we knew as babies in the years before we had our own children. Our side appeared as the dinner crew, the other friends and family came for lunchtime in the all-day invitation. (Newtonbrook East neighbourhood, North York, Ontario) 20240803
Chow Eye Clinic
Chow Eye Clinic: After over 40 years of wearing rigid contact lenses, switching to one soft lens for 3 months, in anticipation of cataract surgery. Hard contact lenses reshape the eye, the technicians can measure after not wearing soft lenses for a few days, rather than months for hard lenses. Now astigmatism isn’t corrected, and I have to wear reading glasses even to read my phone. (Chow Eye Clinic, Ferrier Street, Markham, Ontario) 20240809

Trillium Park: Dusk short set @wavelengthmusic by alt jazz fusion band, named in reference to Pokemon. Specialists in reworking video game music, “Song of Storms” is from The Legend of Zelda. Casual event with mostly millennials sprawled out on the lawn, bike parking overfull with security guards prowling. (Trillium Park, Lake Shore Boulevard West, Toronto, Ontario) 20240810

Yonge Street at Farnham Avenue
Yonge Street at Farnham Avenue: Followed bike lane southbound through Yonge Street midtown, not a favoured route northbound due to incline. Path wends around CafeTO restaurant carve outs replacing parking spaces in the affulent neighbourhood. Ride home through Rosedale Valley Road considerably faster than the ride up over Millwood Overpass Bridge. (Yonge Street at Farnham Avenue, Midtown, Toronto, Ontario) 20240816

Varley Art Gallery of Markham: Solos @ChrisDonnelly99 piano, sax, bass, @ErnestoCervini drums, on Nowhere Girl @nickyschrire @markhamjazzfest. A few famous musicians in the audience, alumni of Toronto who now live in the USA. Performance moved inside, with rain cancellation the two open air venues down the street. (Varley Art Gallery of Markham, Main Street Unionville, Ontario) 20240817

Varley Art Gallery of Markham: Composition of “A Little Louder Please” bass, with sax doubled by @NickySchrire on wordless voice, accompanied by @ChrisDonnelly99 piano, @ErnestoCervini drums @markhamjazzfest. Vocalist and bass player knew each other in graduate school in NYC, now both in Toronto. Rain re-asserted with thunder, glad to be inside the only one of three festival venues under cover. (Varley Art Gallery of Markham, Main Street Unionville, Ontario) 20240817

Varley Art Gallery of Markham: Still yet unrecorded Daffodil @RobertLeeMusic bass, @roa_gayageum, @AllisonAu sax, @jay.myoo guitar, .Lo piano, drums, @markhamjazzfest. Larger ensemble than first performance I saw at Distillery District in May. Fortunate to have an indoor venue, the rain squashed the possibility of playing on the patio. (Varley Art Gallery of Markham, Main Street, Unionville, Ontario) 20240817

Varley Art Gallery of Markham: Introduction by ’Lee gayageum on composition about Korean mountain and drumming pattern @RobertLeeMusic bass, accompanied by @AllisonAu sax, @jay.m.yoo, piano, drums, @markhamjazzfest. Bandleader filled in with patter about growing up in Markham not speaking Korean, now getting language help from bandmates. Korean zither took a few minutes between songs for tuning, and then more adjustments while other players took lead. (Varley Art Gallery of Markham, Main Street, Unionville, Ontario) 20240817

Village of Yorkville Park: Relaxed afternoon “Paradise” @kublamusic_boi guitar, with keyboards and drums on Sunday @BloorYorkville . Trio configuration in daytime, will have 6-piece band at upcoming nightclub date. Sunny break, but bank was watching clouds overhead, for heavy rainfall warning. (Village of Yorkville Park, Cumberland Street, Toronto, Ontario) 20240818

Village of Yorkville Park: Audience requested “Changes” @kublamusic_boi guiar, with keyboards and on Sunday @BloorYorkville . Song was one of the earliest official releases by the band. Trio configuration in daytime, will have 6-piece band at upcoming nightclub date. Also call outs for some other covers, but maybe too obscure for a casual gig. (Village of Yorkville Park, Cumberland Street, Toronto, Ontario) 20240818

Spadina Chinatown
Spadina Chinatown: West half of street closed to southbound traffic @TOChinatownBIA Festival. South of Dundas Street the fragrance of food stalls with frying and stinky tofu is hard to escape. North of Dundas Street were merchandise vendors. Stages at both ends, wall-to-wall people. (Spadina Avenue at Grange Avenue, Chinatown, Toronto, Ontario) 20240818
Edwards Gardens
Edwards Gardens: Annual ritual repeated for the 39th time on a busy Saturday afternoon. Gardens busier than on weekdays, we waited for a wedding party to leave, and saw another coming after us. Camera was set up on tripod, we asked a groomsman to trip the shutter, I hadn’t noticed that we’ve blocked off the view of the lady in limestone. (Edwards Gardens, Lawrence Avenue East, Don Mills, Ontairo) 20240824
Commissioners Street Bridge
Commissioners Street Bridge: Looking upstream, the north plug wall has not yet been removed, tracing the westbound turn where water was unnaturally routed into the Keating Channel since the 1890s. Renaturalizing the river restores marshlands, filled in a new district called the Villiers Island precinct. On the east side, Don Roadway is closed until sometime in 2025. (Commissioners Street Bridge, Port Lands, Toronto, Ontario) 20240825

Toronto Music Garden: Outdoor performance of Kyoto by @UofTMusic Percussion Ensemble quintet, mostly uninterrupted by boat engines roaring in the Inner Harbour. Premiered in 2011 by New Zealander , the music was inspired by a 1976 improvisation by Keith Jarrett in that city in Japan. Full audience, appreciative on a Sunday afternoon. (Toronto Music Garden, Queens Quay West, Toronto, Ontario) 20240825

Toronto Botanical Garden: Flowers in full bloom with ‪@alexisbaro at Edwards Summer Music Series as dusk. Single woman up front, dancing as if no one is watching. Full audience, parking lot full. (Toronto Botanical Garden, Lawrence Avenue East, Toronto, Ontario) 20240829

Village of Yorkville Park: Noontime gig @BloorYorkville dropping into bass solo, with guitar and drums, a challenge to name that tune extends to minutes. Trio discussed the standards to be played a few minutes before each, to check if each might remember playing it recently. Other tunes were interrupted by roars of jets overhead, rehearsing for the Canadian International Air Show officially starting tomorrow. (Village of Yorkville Park, Cumberland Street, Toronto, Ontario) 20240830

Mel Lastman Square: First act on Saturday @tujazzfest stage, and the playing “True”. Band of university studies left Montreal at 5:30am to attend this festival. Audience in bright August sun, from the bleacher concrete steps. (Mel Lastman Square, Yonge Street, North York, Ontario) 20240831

Mel Lastman Square: Saturday afternoon ‪@tujazzfest‬ ‪#EmmettHodgins Coast Group playing tunes with strange titles like Dingle bop? Concluding an album release and touring as a band, composed new music on the road. Folding chairs put under tents for shade, clearer view of raised stage still from the concrete bleachers. (Mel Lastman Square, Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario) 20240831


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