This can be a record of live shows we’re attending, wishing we may attend, or interested by attending between August 5 and 10, 2025. For extra of what’s taking place round Toronto, go to our calendar right here.
Harbourfront Centre: Summer season Music within the Backyard: The String’s The Factor: Mark Fewer
Thursday, August 7, 7p.m.
Toronto Music Backyard, 479 Queens Quay West, Free
The ever-versatile Mark Fewer, and associates Nathan Hiltz (guitar) and Joseph Phillips (bass) deliver a pleasant blended bag to the summer time lakeside, together with Bach, Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Nathan Hiltz, Joao Gilberto and extra. Fewer’s large musical pursuits imply there’s all the time one thing for everybody. A good way to sit back into the summer time weekend. Information right here.
Dwayne Gretzky and Choir! Choir! Choir!
Thursday, August 7, 6:30 p.m.
Budweiser Stage, $46+
Choir! Choir! Choir!’s placing up an important early summer time live performance/sing-along on the Budweiser Stage this Thursday. With particular company, Dwayne Gretzky — the get together band well-versed within the hits of 70s/80s/90s — and the Superdogs (sure, the CNE household favorite pups and people), this occasion guarantees a lot relaxed enjoyable, together with amusing and beautiful canine stunts and expertise, and a great deal of summer time favorite singalongs. As the most important emphasis of Choir! Choir! Choir! is to make singing accessible to everybody, this may very well be that good exercise to pack up your loved ones and associates, and benefit from the easier pleasure of life — of being collectively. Clap. Sing. Dance. Sway. What summer time and all-age households and chosen-families are for. Information right here.
Competition of the Sound: Photos From the East
Friday, August 8, 1:30 p.m.
Charles W. Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts, 2 Bay St., Perry Sound, $ 22.34+
For the nation cottage-bound, the Competition of Sound, based in 1979, is a good way to sneak some music into lengthy summer time days. This week, an important group of pianists will descend on the Charles W. Stockey Centre: Janina Fialkowska (Wednesday, August 6), Kevin Chen (Thursday, August 7), and Carter Johnson and Meagan Milatz (Friday, August 8). Johnson, this 12 months’s Stockey Younger Artist Award winner, was one of many finalists on the 2025 Van Cliburn competitors, and his uncommon programming — together with fierce Prokofiev choices, Shostakovich preludes, Hindemith Sonata No. 3, and Ravel’s Left Hand Concerto — was actually spectacular. This explicit live performance is a good way to see this upcoming star shut in beautiful Perry Sound. Meagan Milatz, 2024 Prix Opus “Discovery of the Yr” winner, will share the stage with Johnson, on this program of Robert and Clara Schumann, Schubert, and Tishchenko. Information right here.
Music Across the Nook: Celebrating Classics and Daring Beginnings
Saturday, August 9 at Glad Day Lit, 23 Lisgar St.
Sunday, August 10, Youthful Vengeance, 1110 Dundas St W.
$30, $18 pupil ticket accessible
Younger musicians Emma Meinrenken, Diane Kim, Lynn Sue-A-Quan and Matthew Christakos deliver high quality chamber music to our neighbourhoods’ notable native companies. Since 2023, they’ve carried out in beautiful outlets comparable to Blood Brothers Brewing and the Espresso Boutique, and for this weekend, they may take seats on the Glad Day Lit and Youthful Vengeance, presenting two Canadian works by Kalen Smith and Pari Bharami, and a agency favorite, Shostakovich Quartet no. 8. Concise, casual, but fiercely musical, this could be a beautiful break to punctuate the lengthy, enjoyable summer time weekend. Information right here.
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Cecilia tumbled into ‘critical’ music examine when she determined to keep away from attending medical college. Presently working within the subject of classical music, recording, and Korean-English interpretation, she tends to get her nostril soiled in many various issues within the metropolis. Cecilia holds a DMA in Piano Efficiency from the College of Nebraska-Lincoln.
