Canadian Musicfest in Toronto (March 13, 2009)

I have more reviews from Canadian Musicfest sets I checked out, this time from the night of Friday March 13, 2009. I saw and heard some great sets from Aussie indie rock duo An Horse, French indie band Angil & The Hiddentracks, east coast's Ruth Minnikin and Her Bandwagon, Toronto-Brampton indie rock outfit Black Hat Brigade, and Ottawa's indie act Amos The Transparent.

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Canadian Musicfest in Toronto (March 12, 2009)

I have brief reviews of Canadian Musicfest sets I checked out on the night of Thursday March 12, 2009 including sets by Scots We See Lights, Ottawa's Angela Desveaux & The Mighty Ship, the Toronto debut of UK's The Week That Was, and ending off that night with Toronto's Slim Twig, and the awesome Rural Alberta Advantage. The bands that bookended my evening were my favourites. Good night overall.

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2009 Canadian Musicfest (Canadian Music Week) picks

The newly dubbed Canadian Musicfest, the music showcase component of this year's Canadian Music Week kicks off tonight(Mar 11) with a few venues but heads into full gear from Thursday March 12 to Saturday March 14, and then ending like it started with a few select venues on Sunday(Mar 15). I'll likely skip the festivities tonight although perhaps if I get the bug I'll take in some of the Eye Weekly CMW showcase tonight at Gladstone Hotel or maybe check out Scottish indie folk-pop outfit We See Lights at the Horseshoe. I've been perusing the CMF schedule all day and I think I've finally come up with a schedule to my liking. Thursday, I mostly plan to camp out at Gladstone Hotel for the 2nd night of Eye Weekly's 3-way Throwdown with only the slight aberration that I'll likely take in We See Lights' set at Rancho Relaxo at 9 pm. However on Friday and Saturday I switch in to full club-hopping mode - if the TTC transit gods are on my side, I should hopefully make most of my planned schedule. For the life of me, I haven't found anything to my interest to check out at midnight on Friday night - perhaps I'll just swing by the Horseshoe Tavern and see how big of a lineup of people shivering in the cold there is trying to get in to see Handsome Furs. Oh good times. So taking a cue from Chromewaves recent CMF picks, here's mine (note: all the artist hyperlinks below point to their respective MySpace sites so click through and check them out):

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