Andreena’s return is official Wednesday night. Definitely a must-attend event.

p.s. Can’t believe it’s June.

Hollywood Jade & Andreena Music present:
The A.M.E (Andreena Music Experience)

On June 1st inside Tattoo Rock Parlour you have two chances to be apart of entertainment history when two local forces join together to bring you a night of musical and visual stimulation.

AME is a dance production featuring a cast of 8 Toronto dancers with live vocal performances by the one and only Andreena. Conceptualized, choreographed and under the artictic direction of Hollywood Jade, AME is a night of live dance and vocal perfection all set to the musical anthology of Andreena!!!

Date:
Wednesday June 1st 2016

Location:
Tattoo Rock Parlour (567 Queen St W, M5V 2B6)

Time(s):
Early Show
Doors Open @7pm Show Starts @8pm
Late Show
Doors Open @930pm Show Starts @1015pm

Cost:
Advance (Available until May 31st)
$15
Door
$25

***Space and seating is limited, there are no guarantees at the door, advance tickets are suggested***

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T i K ▲ and McCallaman link up one mo’ gin to co-celebrate the release of their projects which are both available now. Should be a dope night with the likes of Blues, Sydanie and Monsieur Desire all rounding up the lineup.

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Honey Jam back at it again! All the info below:

HONEY JAM CANADA AUDITIONS 2016

Honey Jam Canada launches its 2016 season with live auditions which take place in Toronto on Saturday June 4, 2016 2pm @ Revival on 783 College Street.

Artists across Canada who can’t make the live auditions can submit online. All details are on www.honeyjam.com.

Judges will include reps from record labels, booking agencies, radio programmers, music media, artist funding bodies, producers, managers, vocal coaches and artists. The live auditions are open to the public – there is a charge of $10 to attend or participate.

All artists chosen for the concert will all receive a free series of workshops at Harris Institute, one-on-one vocal training with celebrity coach Elaine Overholt, the opportunity to have their original songs played on radio and more!

Additionally, one lucky artist will be chosen to receive each of the following:

· The opportunity to attend Canada’s Walk of Fame

· The opportunity to perform in Barbados

· song demo sessions at Slaight Music Studios

· the opportunity to take part in the Artist Entrepreneur program offered by Canada’s Music Incubator (CMI) at Coalition Music. It is a 10-week professional development program that delivers high-level, customized music industry mentorship for emerging artists of all genres.

The concert will take place Thursday, August 11 at the Mod Club in Toronto.

Honey Jam, produced by PhemPhat Entertainment Group, a non-profit organization, is the longest running initiative of it’s kind in Canada, focussing on providing developmental, networking, educational and showcasing opportunities for young female artists. The Honey Jam concert continuously delivers as one of the summer’s hottest shows featuring electrifying live performances. Whether pop, rock, hip hop, R&B, jazz, soul, country, classical, dancehall – talented female vocalists representing all musical genres can take part.

For info on Honey Jam and more details about the auditions and concert go to:

www.HoneyJam.com

Follow us on Twitter & Instagram @TheHoneyJam

Like, Toronto plays itself as in plays itself in a movie – which is cool. Not plays itself like “you played yourself” – which is wack.

Looks like a dope night at The Garrison! Details below:

TORONTO PLAYS ITSELF
A Music City Showcase from #The6

The Association for Music and Innovative Arts (AMIA) and the Prism Prize present Toronto Plays Itself: A Music City Showcase from #The6 on Tuesday, May 3 at The Garrison. The show will include performances by Maylee Todd, Clairmont The Second, Petra Glynt and a DJ set by Absolutely Free.

Maylee Todd is a dynamic and multi-faceted artist. Her creativity derives its inspiration from a wide range of artistic disciplines: songwriting, production, film, performance art, and design. Maylee’s music combines organic and electronic forms, including elements of boogie, bossa, space funk, psychedelia and soul. Clairmont The Second is a Toronto-based artist and producer who has collaborated with Prism Prize Top Ten nominee Harrison. He is currently working on his third album. Petra Glynt aka Alexandra Mackenzie is a multidisciplinary artist who writes and performs experimental pop music.

The AMIA wishes to thank the Toronto Arts Council for their support of Toronto Plays Itself. Prism Prism Top 20 nominees Absolutely Free will DJ throughout the evening. Their video for Vision’s, directed by Scott Cudmore and Michael LeBlanc, is eligible for this year’s Audience Award, presented by Noisey Canada. The Top 20 videos are live at prismprize.com/audience2016, where fans can watch and vote on who will take home this year’s Audience Award. 

On Sunday, May 15, 2016 the Prism Prize Screening and Awards Presentation at TIFF Bell Lightbox will include a screening of the Top Ten videos, and award presentations including the $10,000 Grand Prize for best Canadian music video of the year. Tickets are on sale now at prismprize.com/tix. 

TORONTO PLAYS ITSELF
A Music City Showcase from #The6
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Doors at 8pm
The Garrison, 1197 Dundas Street West
Tickets are $6 in advance, $10 at the door
eventbrite.ca/e/toronto-plays-itself-tickets-24118793962?aff=efbevent

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Two big celebrations going down tonight at The Blake Hotel. The Come Up Show’s 9th anniversary (congrats to the fam!!!) as well as Blake C performing in support of his new project “F.A.I.L.U.R.E.” (congrats to the fam!!!).

Should be a dope night!

The Come Up Show 9th Year Anniversary Feat. Blake Carrington + Mack Davis, K. Forest, Cherisha Etnel

The 9th Anniversary of blog and radio show The Come Up Show will pair up with The Hustle tonight to celebrate the new album from Toronto’s Blake Carrington who has just released his LP, photo book, and short film entitled Failure.

It’s been an emotional and challenging past 4-years for Blake Carrington, while raising a young family as a single father, Blake has continued to push forward with his music and overall creative passion. Between Toronto and Los Angeles over the past few years, Blake was able to see first hand the work ethic of US artists and business people he met while in Los Angeles, and combine that with his drive and energy as a buzzing Toronto artist, to bring together his current team to execute a tri-media project surrounding Failure.

Toronto singer/rapper Mack Davis will also appear giving a look at some new music, and Brampton based singer K. Forest will give a first look at his live music that has recently received positive coverage (NOW Magazine’s R&B One’s To Watch) and drawn comparisons to soon to be stadium filler Bryson Tiller. UK based alt-R&B singer Cherisha Etnel will kick-off the evening, as she will appear a week later during Canadian Music Week.

WHAT: The Come Up Show 9th Year Anniversary

WHO: Blake Carrington / Mack Davis / K. Forest / Cherisha Etnel / Mr. Akil D

WHEN: Thursday, April 28 | Doors 9pm

WHERE: Drake Underground | 1150 Queen St. West

COVER: $10 advance | $15 at the door

TICKETS: http://universe.com/thehustle16

Two legends in the game connect for what looks to be a one-of-a-kind theatrical experience. From what I can tell it’s like the one-woman-show meets hip-hop. And you know you can’t have hip-hop without the DJ. Really looking forward to this one even though I guess I don’t qualify for the youth price anymore. Gawd damnit!

The theatrical run starts this Friday so get your tickets now and peep the full breakdown below. Shouts to the queens!

Oraltorio: a Theatrical Mixtape, gives rhythm to silenced voices as part of The RISER Project 2016

Written by Motion

Directed by Mumbi Tindyebwa

Produced by MotionLive Collective

April 11, 2016, TORONTO – MotionLive Collective is pleased to present the world premiere of Oraltorio: a Theatrical Mixtape as part of The RISER Project 2016. The RISER Project, the collaborative producing model for independent theatre, returns to the Theatre Centre (1115 Queen St W) for the second time this Spring, Oraltorio: a Theatrical Mixtape runs April 29 – May 12, 2016 (opening April 30).

Oraltorio: a Theatrical Mixtape is a coming of age story that traces the personal and collective journey of Northside-born girls as they grapple with identity, migrate through their histories, and manifest their lineages through ancient, contemporary, and Afro-futuristic soundscapes; finding the multi-layered voices of the B Girl and the DJ, as the traditional storyteller and drummer are reborn in their beats and rhymes.

The piece is a multidisciplinary insight into how women’s voices – musical and otherwise – have been silenced. Oraltorio: a Theatrical Mixtape is a spoken word opera that remixes theatre, music and spoken word, bringing together a piece as insightful as it is entertaining. The piece riffs on music, race, gender, culture, memory, otherness, resistance, ritual, silence, survival and inheritance through its two characters, exploring the historical silencing of Black and women’s voices, and the intertwined revolutions and resistance signified by music and oral culture in the African Diaspora.

Oraltorio: a Theatrical Mixtape is written and performed by playwright, poet and emcee MOTION and composed/mixed by DJ, composer and beat maker L’Oqenz. It is directed by Mumbi Tindyebwa.

Oraltorio: a Theatrical Mixtape is made possible by Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts.

About Oraltorio

Directed by Mumbi Tindyebwa

Motion (Writer/Performer)

DJ L’Oqenz (Music & Sound Design/Performer)

Roger C. Jeffrey (Choreographer)

Saccha Dennis (Assistant Director)

Tara Mohan (Stage Manager)

Mariuxi Zambrano (Costume Designer)

Jackie Chau (Set & Props Designer)

David Mesiha (Associate Sound Designer)

Remington North (Associate Video Designer)

Ramon Charles (Video Designer)

Andrew du Toit (Lighting Designer)

Mel Hague (Dramaturge)

MotionLive Collective (Producer)

Newface Entertainment/David Crawford (co-Producer)

IFT Theatre (co-Producer)

Another must-watch production courtesy of the one and only Trey Anthony. Here’s all the info courtesy of Broadwayworld.com:

HOW BLACK MOTHERS SAY I LOVE YOU, presented by Trey Anthony Studios in association with Girls with Bow Ties, is a raw and honest portrayal of the choices many mothers have made in effort to create a better home for their families.

Written and directed by award-winning playwright Trey Anthony (Da Kink in My Hair) the play makes its world premiere in Toronto on May 7 and runs May 5 – 15 at the Factory Studio Theatre (125 Bathurst Street), just in time for Mother’s Day.

The story follows Daphne (Ordena Stephens), a mother who left her children behind in Jamaica to come to Canada for work. The character is based on the real life stories of Jamaican and Afro-Caribbean mothers who left their children in order to make better lives for them, including the playwright’s own mother. It’s about the difficult choices, or lack of choices, women of colour in particular have had to make for their families’ futures. The play deals with love, loss, migration and ultimately acceptance.

“The play breaks down barriers and exposes the fact that motherhood isn’t at all the love and fluff as we wish it to be,” said Anthony. “The sacrifice of loving a child by leaving, learning to love a child who’s gay, learning to love a child in any other way than what you know; these are honest choices our own mothersand grandmothers were forced to make.”

Anthony has put together a cast of award-winning actors, including Ordena Stephans (Da Kink in My Hair), Jewelle Blackman, Robinne Fanfair andAllison Edwards-Crewe. On the production team, singer-songwriter and producer Gavin Bradley composed the original score and lighting the stage is four-time Dora award-winner Steve Lucas.

On Saturday May 7, Trey Anthony Productions, recepCon and TD Bank present the #100GIRLS initiative. One hundred girls of colour from low-income families will attend the play and be given the chance to explore the world of theatre. Ticket and transportation will be fully provided for the 100 girls chosen within the GTA.

IF YOU GO:

HOW BLACK MOTHERS SAY I LOVE YOU

Directed, Written and Produced by: Trey Anthony
Featuring: Ordena Stephens, Jewelle Blackman, Robinne Fanfair, Allison Edwards-Crewe
Run time: 90 minutes
Venue: Factory Studio Theatre, 125 Bathurst Street, Toronto
Tickets: $25 – $35

Performance Schedule:

Thursday, May 5 Preview for #100GIRLS at 7PM
Friday, May 6 Preview at 7:30PM
Saturday, May 7 Preview at 2PM and 8PM OPENING
Sunday, May 8 2PM and 8PM
Tuesday May 10 8PM
Wednesday May 11 2PM School Show
Thursday May 12 8PM
Friday May 13 8PM
Saturday May 14 2PM and 8PM
Sunday May 15 2PM CLOSING NIGHT

HOW BLACK MOTHERS SAY I LOVE YOU is based on a successful short film documentary release and recently received a positive screening at the 2016 Toronto Black Film Festival – talk and Master Class with Trey Anthony.

Watch the trailer below!

Trey Anthony Studios (TAS) is an award winning entertainment and production company, which produces television and theatre for urban audiences with offices in Atlanta, U.S. and Toronto, Canada. With the success of the theatrical play, Da Kink in my Hair, TAS received a Dora nomination and winner of four NAACP Theatre awards. Anthony become the first Black Canadian woman to write and produce a television show on a major prime time Canadian network. For more information, visit www.treyanthonystudios.com.

Dope event for a dope cause going down the Saturday afternoon on Queen East.

We have been organized to bring more awareness to the cause of Lead Poisoning in Flint, Michigan, most recently exposed. We are artists who support Flint!

Website: http://www.hiphop4flint.com

Check out one of the dopest artists in the city right now, Ms. Adria Kain, alongside the incomparable Tanika Charles, the legendary LAL and Brooklyn’s own Nitty Scott, MC as part of another The Acadamy production tomorrow night at The MOD Club.

The Academy presents…
International Women’s Day 2016
Celebration

featuring…
NITTY SCOTT, MC
(Brooklyn, NY)
www.nittyscottmc.tumblr.com

TANIKA CHARLES
(Toronto)
www.tanikacharles.com

LAL
(Toronto)
www.lalforest.com

ADRIA KAIN
(Toronto)
www.adriakain.tumblr.com

Host DJ: DJ ARIEL

Tuesday, March 8
MOD Club
722 College St. (at Crawford)
$25 Advance | $35 At The Door
Tickets: Soundscapes
Buy online: universe.com/IWDTO
Doors 8pm | Show 9pm
19+ | ID Required

A portion of proceeds donated to the IT STARTS WITH US initiative.

Supporting and Honouring the lives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous women, girls and Two-Spirit people and their families

itstartswithus-mmiw.com

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Facebook: The Academy Presents
Instagram: @academypresents
Twitter: @academypresents

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Another edition of Big Ticket goes down this Friday with MoSS and Eternia headlining.

Toronto-based producer MoSS has been one of the best-kept secrets in music, most notably the man behind the beats for Detroit emcee Obie Trice. He’s also produced for The Game, Boot Camp Clik, Slum Village, Ghostface, Raekwon Joell Ortiz, Joe Budden, MOP, Reks and a slew of others including Toronto MC Eternia who released the Juno Nominated album At Last, produced entirely by Moss. “Eternia and Moss have that classic “one emcee, one producer” chemistry that hip hop lovers admire.”

Eternia is also featured on the track Day And Night off Moss’s recently released debut LP, Marching To The Sound Of My Own Drum. Eternia will join Moss on stage during his Beat Showcase Feb 26th at #BigTicket Inside Revival.

Ranked on Hip Hop Canadas Top 40 rappers of 2015 leading into 2016, Osiym is also set to smash the stage alongside Blaq August, Chop Z, TRPL R and Trill God Six. The event will also host video release parties for both both K Fresh and Staalin who will each be premiering new visuals. As always, the party vibes will be provided by the award winning DJ LAW.

“I’ll keep supporting the movement , coming to shows, vibin it out with ya’ll, shit was the most fun I had in a long ass time”.

“Big ups to the #BIGTICKET for consistently putting together these dope Hip Hop events. They cover all the bases. When the next one goes down I’ll be there again and you should be there too. It’s some next level shit. Peace”!

Vist the event page for more deets and purchase advance tix atticketscene.ca