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At Sound Check Entertainment, We Love Live! And right now in Toronto, there is no shortage of live music available in all genres as we continued our coverage of Canadian Music Week.  This is like the music lover’s all you can eat buffet. Today’s review comes from the performances at one of our favourite venues, Boots and Bourbon.

Canadian Music Week 2016 is in full swing in Toronto. And man it’s pretty much all night, every night, at every venue in the T-dot. While Corey was over at the Phoenix, I hit up the Dakota Tavern to capture the action and here is my recap of what went down.

I had a chance to chat with Honeymoon Suites Derry Grehan a week or so before they hit the stage in Hamilton & Mississauga this week.  

The Lad Classic are an energetic rock foursome out of the Toronto area and I was able to catch them in Hamilton at This Ain’t Hollywood.

KX Country and Boots & Hearts teamed up to bring the biggest Country Show to CMW.  With the likes of red hot Meghan Patrick and a band that had by far one of the best performances of last years Boots and Hearts Festival with Blackjack Billy taking the headlining honours.  For those of you that were part of that 30,000+ Kick off party you will know that the boys in BJB tore the roof off the Front Porch stage on that beautiful Thursday night.  

It was about a year ago that I witnessed the talent of Meghan Patrick LIVE during Canadian Music Week at the Supermarket.  Small intimate show with about 50 ppl in attendance or so.   Today, Meghan releases her debut album Grace & Grit through Warner Music Canada.   I had a chance to catch up with Meghan earlier this week to chat a bit about the album.   Here is that conversation. 

This weeks Barn Burners wasn’t easy.   With so much new music hitting the shelves and your favourite online music store it was tough to pick my favourites that I have been listening to this week.  This one might have a bit of a theme with the titles 2 out of 3 have Kiss in them.   Let me know what you think and be sure to follow me over on Instagram. 

Did you see Thomas Rhett perform on The Voice the other night?  We did and he rocked it.  Take a look for yourself.  

I had a chance to sit down and chat with Canadian Country Music Icon Terri Clark last week on the heels of her big cross Canada tour announcement “Back To My Roots”.  We had a chance to discuss what was going to be special about this tour and why she thought it was time for a tour like this.   Terri also cut a few songs for our Mason Jar Sessions and tomorrow we will release the 1st tune.  So be sure to check back tomorrow for a killer stripped down, acoustic version of one of Terri’s biggest hits!  

Happy Friday!