Ethereal crush-pop band The Belle Game played Toronto's Phoenix Concert Theatre, opening for the venerable singer/guitarist/songwriter Johnny Marr. Click through for my pics of his set.
I was truly impressed with The Belle Game's engaging tunes and cool beats, especially when combined with singer Andrea Lo's powerful vocals. This wasn't my first time seeing The Belle Game. I caught their early-day set at Field Trip back in 2016. Those pics are here.
September 18 marked the third and last day of the 2016 edition of The Toronto Urban Roots Festival's outdoor Fort York Garrison Common event. The sun came out and made for a fantastic day of music, food and friends.
Here are links to all of the artists we captured on TURF Day 3. Photos by Roy Cohen and myself.
A few weeks back, TURF, The Toronto Urban Roots Festival announced the first batch of artists for the 2016 line-up including James Bay, Death Cab For Cutie, Barenaked Ladies, Dropkick Murphys, Explosions in the Sky, Lush, Okkervil River and Skinny Lister. Click here for my post on that announcement.
This morning, TURF announced the second round of artists for this year's festival including Jimmy Eat World, The New Pornographers, Whitehorse, Margo Price, Dwayne Gretzky (playing The Tragically Hip), The Sadies, Wild Child, The Deslondes, Simone Denny, Lee Harvey Osmond, The Belle Game, Modern Space and Julia Jacklin. Click on the band name links above for my shots of the bands that I've photographed in the past.
Even more artist announcements are still to come, and pretty significant ones at that, based on the artist page on TURF's site. I've got some predictions, but I'm going to keep them quiet.
TURF is consistently my favourite festival of the season and this line-up looks to be fantastic. The festival takes place September 16-18 at Fort York Garrison Common in downtown Toronto. For ticket information click here.
Check out some music from these newly-announced TURF 2016 artists.
