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Virgil Scott’s Christmas Food Drive @ The Blue Goose

Posted on December 24, 2012 | Leave a comment

What is becoming a great tradition, is the Christmas Food Drive at the Blue Goose Tavern in Mimico, hosted by Virgil Scott. A truck-load of non-persishable goods where collected, they had to keep emptying the overflowing container! Way to go guys!

I wasn’t sure I was even going to make it to this Sunday afternoon treat, but as fate would have it, and since I usually have my camera with me, I dropped in to an already packed house!

Virgil and the house band, The Pie Guys, kicked things off with some festive tunes, this week’s special guest Tony Paglia, kept up the Christmas time vibe.

There was a slew of other special guest’s, including trombonist Phil Gray and jazz/soul singer, with a short stint on the drums- Mary McKay.

Check out the pix and there is also a video I did. It’s a little too red in colour balance, which is something I’ve been trying to overcome with the predominate red lighting in most venues. Hopefully I’ll get it right next time. But it is a great performance.

enjoy & Merry Christmas and all the best for the New year!

Virgil Scott

Tony Paglia

Mary McKay

Phil Gray

The Band

Dave Antonachi

Below is a link to the video

and here is a link to the complete gallery : Virgil Scott’s Christmas Food Drive

SoHo Ghetto @ the Horseshoe Tavern Photo’s

Posted on December 14, 2012 | Leave a comment

Hey all, it’s been awhile, sorry about that, but patience is a virtue, and I’m sorry to the featured band it’s taken so long to get these pix up, so….. that said.

This show was a blast!

It all started with a ‘pre-show’ bevy or three at my buddies place in the east end. He knows one of the guys in the band from back home, and, true to spirit, we prep accordingly. Ya see, Soho Ghetto are from Halifax, NS, Canada. One of the best places in Canada imo. So prep we do—and watch for the streetcar.

Then a rather spirited street-car ride to Spadina via the storied Queen St 501 rocket, a short trip to the abm for cash, then to the ‘shoe.

This would have usually been fine— except for a small trip on a sidewalk edge, misconstrued as a drunken stumble by the resident door-man, hence giving us the third degree and ‘what’s in the bag’ questions… it’s a camera. Well, we where fine and everything worked out easy. Then into the show!

It was a Halloween themed night at the Horseshoe, with all bands in costume of one sort or another. ( I honestly don’t remember–except from the pix!!, lol)

SoHo Ghetto gave us a great performance. I loved the songs, melodies, harmonies and the amazingly interesting drum beats, mesmerizing. Definitely a band to check out every time they come around. Here are a few selects from the many pix I took that night, plus more in the full Soho Ghetto gallery, Link below, enjoy.

Marc Antoine, Soho Ghetto