The Toronto Traveler

Aaron Davis is a composer and a keyboardist that has lots of years of experience in both of those fields as they relate to jazz blues and a person that can currently be seen regularly playing and arranging music for the singer Holly Cole.  Suzie Vinnick is a blues singer that has won a number of awards for her great talents and is also someone that has been credited with writing some of her own songs as well as playing some musical accompaniment on different instrumental recordings.
Together, the two of them are going to sound terrific and it is in …read more

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Well well well, if you picked January of 2008 (and in particular this week) to travel to Toronto, then you might be extremely glad or extremely frustrated depending on what you came to the city for.  If you came here dreading the cold winters of Canada, then the fact that this has been the nicest winter on record is probably something you love.  Of course, if you came here for the opposite reason, then you’re probably royally cheesed right about now.  Well, the good news for the latter group of people is that if you’re staying for at least another …read more

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Even though The Toronto Traveler has only been around for about two and a half months or so, there are still highlights to talk about!  Here are some of the more memorable posts that have come up in the short time that The Toronto Traveler has been online:
- The Welcome Post, on October 19th
- A Great Picture of the CN Tower, on October 25th
- Staying Safe on Halloween, on October 30th
- A Plug for the Official City of Toronto Website, on November 18th
- Great Music at one of Toronto’s best Jazz Locales, on November 20th
- Toronto’s First …read more

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Here are some recent stories from the Toronto Area:
- Tributes pour in for Oscar Peterson
- Pakistani Natives Living in Toronto Remember Benazir Bhutto
- Rangers Destroy Maple Leafs 6-1
- Walter Gretzky and Steve Nash named to the Order of Canada

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If you are really into the New Years spirit and have kids, then one of the great ways for you to ring in the New Year would be at the Metro Toronto Zoo.  There’s going to be fun and fanfare in the guise of great music and entertainment as well as special visitors that will be doing animal acts to delight the kids.  There are very few things that they would find more delightful and at the end of it there will be a big celebration for the New Year, assuming your kids can stay awak of course!

The Metro Zoo …read more

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The City Playhouse Theatre is set to be host to one of the most interesting events of early 2008 when they roll out the red carpet (or rather, should that be the green carpet?) for the 2008 Green Reel Environmental Film Festival.
The festival is designed to have a number of different documentaries as well as mainstream and independent productions shown at it.  The only real requirement for a particular feature to be shown at the festival is that it needs to have an environmental theme of some kind.  When this was weighed by the directors of the festival, a list …read more

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One of the things that I absolutely love about living in Toronto is the fact that there are so many artists around.  While there are a lot of visual artists around, this particular post is about someone that is very fun to watch in the performing art of music. 
Bernie German is one of the most delightful musicians around in my opinion, because he is very energetic in the way that he sings.  Children from all over love his singing and this is true even to the extent that people that are in Toronto as families touring the city sometimes choose …read more

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Christmas is a very fun time, regardless of whether you celebrate it or not.  You get the chance to be with your family, many of whom you may only see at that time.  You get the chance to watch television and eat chocolate as much as your heart desires.  And of course people that do celebrate the holiday get to have presents, sing Christmas Carols and everyone also gets the day off from work.  All in all, Christmas is a very fun time and if you are going to be in Toronto this evening you can help the Metropolitan Community …read more

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Winter Fest this year is going to be very interesting, with the highlight performance being sung by Omarion.  This is a man that is absolutely multi-talented, with the ability to produce, act and sing.  He is a performing arts genius and he will be joined at the Winter Fest concert celebration by young and upcoming R&B artists Trey Songz and Mario.  The price for this concert is quite hefty, with tickets starting around $65.00, but at the same time if you are a big fan of this kind of music and want to get in on the Winter Fest fun, …read more

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By day, it is one of the more bustling shopping areas within the City of Toronto.  People go there in order to get great deals on a number of different things, while local residents and students from the nearby University of Toronto tend to go there during their off hours in order to shop from store to store.  It is one of the quintessential local shopping areas in Toronto and on the 21st of December, it is going to be home to an absolutely fascinating festival of lights.
December 21st is the winter solstice and also the shortest …read more

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