Live baby live: Q4 2024

Toronto concert reviews October-December

For paid subscribers only:

Twelve Toronto live reviews from the last three months, plus two music-film reviews with a live element.

Free subscribers already received my essay on Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band playing Toronto on one of the last nights of America: that is here, but now behind a paywall. So:

My dance card for this quarter included an octogenarian jazz legend, two Hearts on Fire alumni and two more early-aughts contemporaries, techno dance parties, klezmer guitar, a tribute band playing the deepest cuts imaginable, and, to top it off, the most transcendent live rock’n’roll trip I took all year (no, not Springsteen).

Here we go: