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Youth Charity Tries to End a Contentious Transit Week on a High Note

Why the TTC will be full of singing teenagers on Friday, but that's a good thing.

Be sure to bring some extra change if you’re taking a TTC trip tomorrow. No, there hasn’t been a fare increase secretly included in this week’s transit upheavels. But there may be a mob of teenage mimes at the subway station asking, in their way, for spare cash and TTC tokens. It’s all part of [...]

Didgeridoo It to Me One More Time

Is the didgeridoo the new cheap guitar? That could be the case among Toronto’s street musicians, as evidenced by these shots at Kensington Market’s monthly Pedestrian Sunday and, yesterday, on the corner of Yonge and Dundas streets across from Dundas Square. You can pair it with almost any other instrument, though a sitar seems a [...]

PhotoTO: Busking for Change

Yesterday more than fifty musicians came out onto Toronto’s streets to busk in support of War Child’s Busking for Change event. Despite intermittent downpours, the performers were entertaining small and enthusiastic crowds—and many passersby seemed surprised when they realized the busker they were passing was actually Brian Melo or Chantal Kreviazuk. With more publicity, Busking [...]

Burning Rings Of Fire

“Busker? Don’t even know ‘er!” jokes aside, Toronto’s annual street performer extravaganza is back until Sunday with a new roster of bizarre talents from around the globe. Buskerfest, the last of the major summer street festivals, draws about 350,000 spectators over four days and it’s the best place to see someone jam a sword down [...]