Lucky Torontonians

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Two singer-songwriters in an intimate presentation of their stuff.

Ana Egge is a wonderful Canadian-born artist living in Brooklyn, NY. She is currently touring her latest album, 'The Road To My Love'.

Peter Elkas will be performing material from his upcoming album (currently being recorded) in addition to classic Elkas fare.

They will be playing the Rivoli in Toronto on November 14th. 
For more event info, check it out here!

Complete devotion, is that the cost of love's commotion?

Personal favourite- "Up"

Just one of a few lovely, intimate photos with Joel Plaskett, the Emergency, friends and family as they sound checked at Massey Hall in Toronto for the Three tour-- arguably the biggest show of their careers thus far. For more photos, as well as their tour blog, click the above photo.

This entry is all about Joel Plaskett

Last night is now the standard; any shows that come after this point have a hell of a high bar to reach. Each musician was distinguished in their own right and each shared the spotlight. There was no ego, just a lot of laughs (some during songs), a lot of singing and impromptu clapping from the audience, a lot of talent, and a lot of love and mutual admiration.

Highlights-- there were so many, here's an incomplete list:
Work Out Fine: "Help me out here--" crowd: "WHAT THE FUCK?!" "They're trying to turn me into a patsy!"
Bill Plaskett's Places: A lovely song written while Papa Plaskett was living in Vancouver about his life here. I never knew that he was the one harmonizing on a couple of the tracks. His voice is more baritone to Joel's tenor. His voice is deep, thick and lovely. I sincerely wish that this song will one day be released.
All The Way Down The Line: Joel and Ana had amazing chemistry and seeing it live made an amazing song simple ineffibly lovely.
Fashionable People: for encore-- I didn't think they could pull it off acoustically but it was a heck of a lot of fun!
A 3 set show: well, it was technically only 2 sets with an intermission in between, but the encore was 4 songs long so it was practically a mini-set. Much better than the "3 more!!!" that I yelled :)
2 standing ovations!

Grabbed the chicken-scratched custom Vancouver lyrics:

" Staring at a western sky
Rolling down the Rockies road
After a 14 hour drive
I only wanna be in vogue
-----
Thinkin' bout my love back home
Thinkin' bout my country
Think I'll sing a little song "

Ana Egge
Rose Cousins
Bill Plaskett
More pics from the show (as well as a couple of Immaculate Machine's CD release the night before)