NXNE 2010
Festivals

NXNE on Ossington

The North by Northeast music festival returns to Toronto this week, and with 50 venues, some of them have to be in our neighborhood! We’ve got the scoop for you on where to go on and near Ossington to see some amazing live shows. […]

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Cafes

Saturday Matinee at the Communist’s Daughter – Now on CD

One of the real gems of the Ossington Village is Saturday afternoons between 4 and 7pm at the Communist’s Daughter. Michael Lewis Johnson holds one of the most unique regular live music shows in in the city. The small 25 seat bar is transformed back in time; Michael sings and plays cornet in songs from the 20s, 30s and 40s – what he calls Gypsy Jazz – while simultaneously bartending and playing gracious host to an always-packed house. An experience that no Torontonian should miss. […]

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music

The Dakota Tavern Turns Three

Last Wednesday night the Dakota Tavern, the little underground music joint which caps our row of great merchants on Ossington turned 3 years old with a party complete with great musicians. […]