FIDDLE DRAM
8.00

From the corners of Canada, the US, Ireland, Scotland and Brittania, Fiddle Dram at DROM brings you Jigs, Reels, Rags, Bluegrass, Quebecois and Oldtime fiddle songs that will get you playing, dancing, singing, eating and drinking along!

In the Celtic tradition of The Session, the public house...the Pub, becomes the venue for experienced fiddle music players to jam on well known tunes and share the songs as an open music source and continue the human oral tradition of communally playing and learning fiddle songs and really just having a good time.

 A friendly jam of all ages and playing levels, Everyone welcome! Bring your fiddle, guitar, bass, banjo, accordion, pennywhistle, whatever! and come and learn some new tunes and play familiar favourites with us. 

We'll have guests fiddlers at each monthly Session. Some of Canada's greatest fiddle players will share songs they've picked up from the corners of Canada and beyond.

MARK THACKWAY
11.00

From the shimmering opening notes of his first solo recording, many listeners will get a familiar feeling hearing Mark Thackway’s music. One of Toronto’s premiere guitarists, Mark is best known within Canada’s jam band community for leading two of its pioneering bands of the 1980s and ‘90s, The Other One and Days Of You.

Now, after several years of tending to other aspects of his life, Mark has returned to writing original songs that display his impressive storytelling ability along with his guitar skills, but this time in an acoustic setting. The initial results are contained on the eponymous Mark Thackway, six songs recorded live off the floor with Mark accompanied only by his longtime collaborator Steve Himel on upright bass. For fans of Bruce Cockburn and especially Jerry Garcia’s acoustic work, the EP offers a true feast for the ears.