Saturday May 24th, 9pm, 8$

Location: Keep Six Contemporary Gallery - 938 Bathurst St.

Keep Six Contemporary Gallery will be holding a 7″ record fundraiser featuring Toronto bands Nifty and Tradition. Performing that night will be Tradition, Nifty and Broken Treefort while fleshing out the night will be DJ Daniel Vila.

Nifty - www.myspace.com/princenifty - Nifty is Matt Smith (Les Mouches) who has recently released an album on Blocks Recording Club titled “A Sparrow! A Sparrow!”. It is a collection of 7 songs in as many different genres. “Two Figures” is reminiscent of a Tom Waitsian-sonic junkyard while many of the other tracks take off from pop starts into rhythm and drone rhumbas not unlike Arthur Russell or Cluster.

Tradition - www.myspace.com/tradition - James Klassen is the spirit and force behind the curiously timeless Toronto act known as Tradition. The bedraggled and lucid conscience of the animal kingdom, Tradition performs songs that are equal parts poetic, complex, sad, wild and full of joy. He currently has an album out on Blocks Recording Club and will release a new album + tour soon.

Broken Treefort - www.myspace.com/brokentreefort - Broken Tree Fort has been molesting magnetic tape for over 10 years, releasing countless tapes, cd-rs, and svankmajer inspired live shows, self-described as “yr forfathers being bathed with a sponge by a dolphin-monkey while they stare at the night sky all confused like. the delfonics.”

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