This past Sun­day I went to my friend Emily, Liz, and Ken’s  house for a lit­tle going away party for For­est City Lovers who were head­ing to Europe the next day for a tour. They had a bunch of friends play some short sets and all of it was really sweet. I cap­tured some songs from The Wooden Sky’s Gavin Gar­diner and Kite Hill’s Ryan Car­ley, which can both seen right here. I’ve been to a lot of house shows lately, and I hope to go to a lot more this sum­mer! Food, music and friends, what could be better?

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Sun­day night was Heavy Ves­sel, which is a new music series here in Toronto. I’m not sure how often it’s hap­pen­ing, but the basic premise is to get a few bands to play unam­pli­fied in a ship in the mid­dle of a sand­box in park. I was really look­ing for­ward to see­ing just that on Sun­day, but the tem­per­a­ture dropped so the show got moved inside. Nev­er­the­less, we were still treated to a won­der­fully inti­mate show with great sets from Dia­mond Rings, Rolf Klausener and Bruce Penin­sula. All the money from the event goes towards Friends in Bell­woods, which in turn gets donated to the Daily Bread Food Bank, so don’t miss the next show.

Rolf was joined by Jeff Debutte (a fel­low mem­ber in The Acorn), above, while Dia­mond Rings debuted a new tune called “All Yr Songs,” below.

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