“In The Round” TO season finale features passionate songwriters
For the past 18 months east-Toronto born and Oshawa-based Grunge-Pop songwriter Boris Buhot has been putting on an interesting series of monthly “In The Round” artist showcases that rotate between clubs in the two jurisdictions. Taking place alternately at Hirut Café in east TO and Oshawa’s Simcoe Blues and Jazz club, the three or four participants, usually also including the host, do successive songs and in some instances also join...
Campfire song circle and catching a wave augur nice weather
The weather’s still a bit chilly to think about going to the beach, let alone catching a wave on a surfboard, but a couple of shows in east TO tonight will give what feels like a holiday weekend (you can bet a lot of people called in sick after yesterday’s celebrations) a definite proto-summer feel. If you have fond memories of campfire-style song circles with earnest songwriters sharing their tunes then the 9-12 “In The Round” show...
Boris Buhot holding cd fundraiser on familiar turf
Grungy Rock songwriter and Durham Region resident Boris Buhot is no stranger to music fans in east TO as he grew up in the area and has frequently appeared at clubs there, most recently on a couple of occasions at Hirut Restaurant hosting his new In The Round songwriters series about which we’ve written a couple of times recently. We’ve also written several times about his own musical talents, even going so far last summer as to...
Circle with three corners will provide superb strumming tonight
Three-fourths of the superstar six-string group Guitar Boys of Alderon will be on display tonight “in the round” in Durham as the new inter-regional songwriters showcase series hosted by Boris Buhot returns to Simcoe Blues & Jazz in Oshawa. I’ve written many times about the fingerstyle magic that songwriters Brian Gladstone and Tony Quarringtonweave when they perform as a duo, and on several occasions have also extolled the...