Steel Bananas Presents: Jane’s Party, The Rucksack Willies and Hemingway

Pop, Country & Funk at the Rivoli, March 19th!

Spring is nigh and our good friends, Toronto’s frighteningly charming folk-pop “Rubber Soul” enthusiasts Jane’s Party will be hitting the Rivoli with an alarming force March 19 for what will no doubt be the best possible way for you to ring in the Vernal Equinox. To boot, they will be sharing the stage with local bluegrass upstarts The Rucksack Willies, who are just finishing up a month-long residency at the Dakota Tavern. Closing out the night will be none other than the fabulous funk monster, Hemingway, who will be dropping beats so funky we have booked an ambulance for convenient transport of those suffering funk-induced comas to Mount Sinai.

JANE’S PARTY:
Born in a garage, but raised on the road, Jane’s Party is a musical band from the Greater Toronto Area. With catchy hooks, bouncy beats, and sweet vocal harmonies, Jane’s Party combines the spirit of the old with new-age “pop & roll”, drawing comparisons to bands such as The Skydiggers, Joel Plaskett and Wilco. In 2009, Jane’s Party established themselves as the “Folk-pop darlings of Toronto” with back-to-back performances at the Now Magazine Lounge in co-ordination with the NXNE Festival. With dates such as The Halifax Pop Explosion, Toronto Indie Music Week, The International Pop Overthrow Festival, and feature performances at The Horseshoe and Hugh’s Room, the band has played over 100 shows alone in the past year in support of their debut full length album The Garage Sessions.

http://www.myspace.com/janespartyband

THE RUCKSACK WILLIES:
The Rucksack Willies started their journey as travelling musicians, free from the worries of the world, wishing only to play good music for good people. They met at Humber College in Toronto and have played in various different places with very different people. So pick up your Rucksack and pull up your bootstraps, cause we’re about to go on a musical journey together.

http://www.myspace.com/therucksackwillies

HEMINGWAY:
I, Hemingway, have only just started my frontier into the vast universe of sound, this cosmic smorgasborg of mutating genres and styles, and I have a long way to go. Yet I can always draw influence from the past: the golden age of disco and funk, when dance music was soulful, warm, and sassy. A time of grooves so melodic and magical that they could tear up the discotheque at night or compliment a nice sunny day basking in the warm ocean breeze whilst sipping champagne on a yacht. Those were the days. Why not bring them back? We have the technology.

http://www.myspace.com/djhmway