Hey Friends. For any yoga practitioners out there (or anyone who wants a good reason to try yoga for the first time), read on:

Larry and some other Somethings will be providing LIVE beats and sounds at Yogaspace (148 Ossington Ave) for Madelaine Côté’s Vinyasa yoga session on Saturday Feb 28th from 7 to 8:45pm. $20 pre-reg/$25 at the door.

For more info please check out: http://madelainecote.blogspot.com/

Happy 2009 everyone.

It’s my pleasure to introduce you all to a project that I have been working on for the past year or so. The group is called Harmattan Road, and features some familiar ’somethings’: percussionist Dave Chan and wind-man Marcus Ali. Steve Mancuso also joins in on percussion and a few other guests make appearances on occasion. We play select repertory from Ghana as well as some original compositions that fuse a love for African music with jazz forms and textures. My bet is that it’s even dance-friendly…

If you’d like to hear the group live, we will be opening for Must Stash Hat at the Rearview Mirror (193 Baldwin, west of Spadina) on Feb 6th (9pm) and with our friends from Ainike (Ainike.ca) at the Silver Dollar on February 7th (930pm) before they hit the stage.

Then on Feb 14, bring your sweetheart out for some great vegetarian eats at The Jade Elephant (2913 Lakeshore @ Islington). We play from 9pm to 12am/$10.

If you are interested in more info about the group, don’t be a stranger: booktheband@gmail.com or look us up on Facebook.

stay warm

Larry

Hello everyone. I would like to personally thank all those who offered their support during my struggles with immigration over the past couple of weeks. I am VERY pleased to report than Francis Akotuah arrived safely in Toronto today from Ghana!!

HRDC and the AFM were instrumental in helping the process along with their prompt processing of the necessary paperwork after we discovered that the Canadian High Commission in Ghana has misadvised us in terms of visa application procedures. Also a big thanks to Derek Andrews; Nadine McNulty and Olivia Chow’s office for assisting and counseling me during the back and forth with the CIC. I am also very grateful to the Canada Council for the Arts for believing in this project from the beginning and continuing to promote projects of quality that would often not be possible without their support. (more…)