Folk Fridays at Amico’s Pizza is a popular musical event series with an all-star line up of folk musicians from across Ontario.
Friday April 14th – Don’t miss The Greyhound Riders, a Toronto based folk band made up of two full-time members, Celina Di Cecca on fiddle, viola, mandolin, ukulele and vocals and Tony Nesbitt-Larking on guitar, and percussion.
The two musicians met on a Greyhound bus in 2011. After collaborating on various projects, they decided to bring their diverse musical styles together in the fall of 2013 to form a band with a name that remembers their fateful bus trip. Tony and Celina’s original music is rooted in folk, has a twist of jazz, a touch of new-grass and hint of old-time. Both have an extensive list of composition and performance experiences
Friday 21 April 2017, the lovely and talented Sarah Hamilton Toronto fiddle player will perform live! Born and raised in Whitehorse, Yukon, Sarah has been playing fiddle since the age of six, and started performing professionally at the age of 14. She’s the driving force in The Done Gone String Band accompanying groups such as Reuben and the Dark, and Spencer Jo and the River Ramble in Calgary, Alberta.
Sarah is now located in Toronto, Ontario where she’s singing and playing in the Pigeonhawk Stringband and local swing orchestra Combo Royale and has just released her first solo recording, engineered by the legendary Bob Hamilton at Old Crow Recording. With that in mind I reckon there’ll be CDs for sale at this show.
Friday April 28th the last show in the Folk Friday series will see Sarah Jane Scouten perform upstairs at Amico’s Pizza.
Discovered by Vancouver label Light Organ Records when she was cold-called into the studio to make an EP with the prolific music producer Andy Bishop as part of a series of releases, coined The Railtown Sessions (links here), Sarah’s career has blossomed ever since. She has performed on big stages with majors artists all over Canada but now calls Parkdale home and of course she loves Amico’s Pizza.