Follow the thread

A couple of weeks ago the Juno Awards rolled into town, and with it a bunch of shows under the banner of Junofest. I missed most of them, did did manage to make it out to Targ to catch Partner and a bunch of other acts - Juno nominees Weaves, Toronto's Thrifty Kids and Ottawa's own Scary Bear Soundtrack. The Scary ones were on first, here's some bass action with Dannik!



Keyboard action with Tiffanie!



Gloria sings!



Bearish action!



Vocal action!



Extra Gloria!



Soundtracked action!



Kevin hits!



Singalong action!



The whole lot!



Gloria runs about!



Thrifty Kids played a fun set of twangy pop that reminded me of Saturday Looks Good To Me; here's singer Sarah!



Bass action with Patrick!



Thrifty action with guitarist Dylan and drummer Cian!



Extra Cian!



More Dylan!



More Sarah!



Even more Dylan!



This is the third time I've seen Partner; they put on a great show every time. Here's Josee and Brendan!



Lucy sings!



A shouty bit!



Brendan hits!



Back-to-back action with Dan and Josee!



Singalong action with Lucy!



Bass action with Kevin!



Hand-clapping action!



More guitar!



Singalong action!



Faceoff action!



Weaves played a set of hard-hitting art-rock; they made me think of a louder Lilliput. Here's guitarist Morgan, bringing his shirt A-game.



Bass action with Zach!



Banner action with Spencer!



Gripping action with Jasmyn!



Extra Zach!



More Spencer!



More Morgan and Jasmyn!



Even more Morgan!



And a final bit of extra Spencer.



A great combination of music.

Seasonal synthesis

The weather is horrible, that must mean it's time for the annual late-winter mood-lifter that is Doldrums. Granted, the music calendar is a bit busier nowadays in March than it was when the fest was first conceived five years ago, but the more the merrier. This year's edition was held at Club SAW, and the first evening had some heavy synthetic leanings starting with vowel-and-capital dodger sbsst. Here he is!



More Eric!



Kate Schroder (also of Those Gulls) played next; she was joined by cellist Shawn and violinist Neil.



Stringed action with Neil!



Shawn bows!



Gesticulating action!



Extra Neil!



More Kate!



And so on!



Church of Trees broke out the projection for some top-notch 1980s styles synth-pop. Here's Bernard and Felicity (who's also on Sparklesaurus).



There was also some dancing from Surraya!



Felicity sings!



Bernard adjusts that dial!



More Felicity!



Sacred action!



Even more Felicity!



Bernard sings!



The always versatile Destroy Clocks finished the night off; here's Nicole!



Kevin works the pedals.



They played a short set since drummer Tyler was under the weather.



Nicole sings!



Kevin sings!



More Nicole!



Extra Kevin!



Bonus Tyler!



The whole lot!



And finally a shouty bit!



A great way to beat the winter blues.