Last night I attended the West End Phoenix fundraising concert at Toronto’s The Great Hall.
Not only was it an opportunity to help fundraise for the local community newspaper that Dave Badini founded, the West End Phoenix, but it was also a great opportunity to experience some great spoken word performances and live music.
First up was a spoken word performance by poet, Nasim Asgari.
Next up was an hour long set by Juno award-winning band, Whitehorse.
Closing out the evening was one of Canada’s most unconventional, yet influential bands, Rheostatics. They were joined on stage by Kevin Hearn (also from the Barenaked Ladies), Alex Lifeson (of RUSH), Don Kerr (Toronto-based band Communism) and Tom Wilson (from Junhouse and Lee Harvey Osmond)
For more information on how to be a patron or newspaper subscriber please visit https://www.westendphoenix.com/.