A fundraiser for the TMU thesis film “We Are Happy Fish” directed by Zoe Zhou and produced by Jae Zheng & Tom Wolf. Featuring a solo acoustic set by Zach Tennen, a folk improvisational set by Ali Rashid and friends, and a set by the band Dandy featuring our film’s composer Marlowe Dondertman.

8pm
Zach Tennen
Dandy
Ali Rashid, Audrey Mae, Josh Spark, and Aaron Blewett

Zack Tennen, member of Toronto bands; Lizra and Lost Cause, goes solo with an acoustic set!

Dandy is a four piece folk acoustic band. They’ve only recently started playing shows but formed as a band in May of 2024. Each member has been in various other Toronto-based bands and have now combined forces to play / arrange Marlowe’s (vocal and guitar) original music.

Ali Rashid, Audrey Mae, Josh Spark, and Aaron Blewett.

Join us every Monday for our Open Mic!

Hosted by the one and only ever-so-talented Kunle.

We supply a full back line, a spectacular sounding room with a lush fingerprint and a FOH engineer.

Weekly Showcase! Each week a new feature artist graces the stage at the beginning of the night, dm our Instagram page @openmicmonday if you want to be one of them!

Sign up @ 8pm (no online sign up available)

Feature artist @ 8:15-9

Open Mic @ 9pm

Nearly 17  years strong, we produce one the best Open Mics in all of Canada – thanks to ALL involved!

• Every Monday like clockwork! Including Holiday Mondays 🙂
• 2 songs per performer. All Genres.
• Full backline provided: Sonor drums, Traynor Tube guitar amp, MarkBass cabinet with GK 500W ultralight legacy bass amp head, full 88 semi weighted-key Roland keyboard, Roland cube amp, Fender Stratocaster, and more…
• Truly great sounding room run by professional F.O.H Engineers.
• We accommodate single performers to full, multi-piece bands.

OPEN MIC MONDAYS here at ‘THE LADY’ begins with a Feature Performer on stage right at 8:15pm, Open Micers on stage from 9pm ….. we move through the sign up list, also encouraging collaborations and jams to artists open to that, in between, and after …. and, whether playing or listening….. it’s also FUN!

Astrid is a singer-songwriter with influences that range from classical to heavy rock, with a healthy dose of blues and country in between. Her discography dates back to 1984 and boasts over forty releases, including several gold and platinum-selling albums singing backup for artists such as Neil Young and Nancy Wilson. Through the years, she has played stages large and small, from the Whiskey-A-Go-Go in Hollywood to Paradiso in Amsterdam, Rock in Rio, and everywhere in between. Citing her primary influences as David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Kate Bush, and Black Sabbath, she plays a 12-string like it’s a weapon and she isn’t afraid to change strings on the day of a show.

As a tip to her hard rocking roots, her solo acoustic shows have been compared to Alice In Chains Unplugged, and Music Connection Magazine once said she was “more closely related to Angus…” Music Express magazine describes her as “evocative, stunning, soulful… a gifted songwriter,” and Blues Hamilton rightly notes that there is “a musical surprise around every corner.”

Young has released four solo albums: Brainflower in 1995, Matinee in 2002, Pokalolo Paniolo (as iST) in 2003, and more recently, One Night at Giant Rock, the acid-folk epic, co-produced by Victor DeLorenzo, an original Violent Femme, which has recently been remastered and re-released on vinyl. The much-anticipated sequel to One Night at Giant Rock, How the Beautiful Get Away with Murder, is slated for release in the spring of 2025 and features the legendary Eddie Kramer producing, David J (Bauhaus/Love and Rockets) on bass and collaborating on a co-written duet (the title track), and contributions from Neil Young himself.

Beyond music, Astrid is also a bestselling author. In 2009, she released Being Young: Scott, Neil and Me (Insomniac Press), has authored several screenplays, made a film, is a certified sommelier, and is fresh off a 26-date tour of US theatres as the opening act for Our House: the Music of CSNY.

www.astridyoung.net

www.facebook.com/astridyoungrocks

www.instagram.com/wandaplez

https://open.spotify.com/artist/3czr5FHephDhC0FfUsl5Wr?si=WFb-8itRQnqP2L2j3YgEfw

The Future Underground present: KINETIC a FREE Weds night weekly.
A not-for-profit community dance party feat. local residents & city favourites.

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Doors at 7:30pm
Music
ACT 1 8:00pm Thrifted Tease
Act 2 9:00pm  Vanden Dool
Act 3 10:00pm Morgan Dunbar
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/1131063684929?aff=oddtdtcreator

Albertan synth-pop musician Vanden Dool is a member of one of the most often overlooked music scenes in his home province. Taking elements of indie, new wave, darkwave and industrial and dispersing them throughout his discography, he combines pop hooks and dance beats to melancholic themes of heartache, loneliness, poverty, and insatiable longing. Along with touring across the country, he has shared the stage with Southern Ontario’s Glass Apple Bonzai, Vancouver’s Actors, Montreal’s Thierry Larose, Calgary’s Sunglaciers and many more.

Thrifted Tease is the band you didn’t know you needed to hear — like a preloved T-shirt you find that’s effortlessly cool and intentionally inimitable. Formed in early 2024, the band fuses old-school pop, rock and funk into ambitious modern indie.

Though the group is still new, its members have a history of collaboration. All five musicians have crossed paths in various groups over the years, but it wasn’t until recently that they clicked into place. Their sound blends infectious rhythms and confident melodies with an often-missed sense of nostalgia.

Thrifted Tease is currently recording their debut album to be released in 2025. Until then, the band is bringing their keys-forward sound and (of course) thrifted t-shirts to Toronto. You won’t look at your thrift store finds the same way again.