Drawn to steel pan before that was respectable or even safe, Earl La Pierre Sr. used the instrument to teach thousands of North York kids and establish Toronto’s longest-lasting and most successful ...

Trinidadian soca group Kes the Band have announced a lone Toronto show set for Budweiser Stage that they're calling "a dream come true." Toronto was one of the very first cities we toured outside ...

It’s been a nostalgic trip.” Toronto has always figured heavily into the band’s work. Most of the band lives downtown, with Hawkins and drummer Dave Alexander calling Bloor West home. Legendary local ...

The Advocats Big Band returns to The Duke Toronto on Monday, March 3rd from 7:45 to 10:15 pm. You will hear two one-hour sets of big band favourites, including some tunes you have never heard us ...

One of the most exciting bands around, the Toronto All-Star Big Band revives the spirit style and sound of the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s – that golden age of the big bands. This vibrant cast of ...

Kevan Staples, co-founder of the groundbreaking avant-garde Toronto ... was at local station CHUM-FM. “I was up there one night playing backgammon with a friend of mine, and this band came ...