Mother Tongues (Toronto)
Avalon Tassonyi (Niagara)
Tinkertoy Fog Machine (Montreal/Ottawa)
Tickets $10 advance / $15 at the door, pay-what-you-can (email hello@debaser.ca to arrange PWYC ticket)
Licensed / all ages
fully accessible to those with restricted mobility and all genders
We acknowledge and pay respect to the Algonquin Anishinaabeg people on whose land we operate. Donations will be collected at the event for Minwaashin Lodge Programs. Read more about our land acknowledgement: https://www.debaser.ca/land-acknowledgement
Thanks to Ontario creates for support of this event
Poster by Robin Richardson-Dupuis
➞ COVID-19 POLICY
Before attending the event, please complete a COVID-19 self-screening. If you do not pass the self-screening, please STAY AT HOME.
Event staff and attendees are encouraged to take an at-home antigen test before arriving on site. Antigen tests are currently available for free from many pharmacy and grocery store locations (find out more here).
Face masks (KN95 masks recommended) must be worn over the mouth and nose at all times, for example:
when attendees are using the washroom facilities
when attendees are ordering or paying for food and beverages
when attendees are entering and exiting the location
Face masks can ONLY be removed in order to consume beverages, and should be worn in between drinks.
It is recommended that you wear a well fitted medical mask or a respirator (N95, KN95), which may provide better protection for you. We will have a limited number available for audience members.
Please wash hands or use the provided hand sanitizer often.
COVID-19 policy is subject to change based on government and venue regulations and guidelines.
➞ ACCESSIBILITY
Club SAW: 67 Nicholas is the accessible entrance to the building, with a ramp to the entrance and automatic doors.
Accessible bathrooms are available in Club SAW. All bathrooms in Club SAW are gender neutral, including the one backstage.
Email hello@debaser.ca to request any further accessibility information, or to request accommodations.
➞ SAFER SPACES POLICY
Attendees, artists and staff are expected to respect one another. Zero tolerance for violence, aggression, oppressive behaviour or language, or bullying. If you are currently implicated in an accountability process, please ensure you are respecting the space and well-being of those you have affected.
About the artists
Mother Tongues
Mother Tongues harks back to a time when music and mysticism were entwined, carrying on the canon of psychedelic music that came before them, taking things somewhere new and unexplored. A link to the past, a glimpse into the future.
The group has been a prominent part of the Toronto music scene for the last 8 years. Members Charise Aragoza (Luna Li, Hooded Fang, Maylee Todd) Lukas Cheung ( Zoon, Matthew “Doc” Dunn”, Lane Halley (Hooded Fang), Kvesche Ebacher Bijons (Lido Pimienta) and Nick Kervin (Mimico, Andre Ethier, Witchrot) were brought together through a mutual love of everything from 60s french pop, to break beats, kraut rock, shoegaze and film scores. With an equal embrace of pop sensibilities and the experimental, the group has come into ah an inventive new sound reflective of their eclectic palette.
Comparisons have been made to Stereolab, Broadcast, CAN, and The Flaming Lips.
Photo: Tess Roby
Avalon Tassonyi
Avalon Tassonyi is a folk singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Born and raised in Toronto, Avalon grew up tinkering on the family piano, learned guitar and soon began writing songs from a young age. At 17, they moved to Montréal to pursue music. Their longstanding former moniker, Inland Island, is most noted for Zsa Zsa’s Window Opens Slowly (2016, Egg Paper Factory), an exploration of trans femininity, radical softness and Hungarian cultural diaspora. Avalon has now come full circle, living in Niagara on the peach farm where their family has been rooted since immigrating to Canada. With that, they’ve come to embrace the acoustic, folk & country sounds they grew up on. Reemerging to share music under their own name for the very first time, Avalon Tassonyi’s songs are grounded in lyrical prowess, an embrace of simplicity, and a love for all human emotion, from its silliest to most sombre elements.
Tinkertoy Fog Machine
Tinkertoy Fog Machine is a Canadian indie pop group, composed of Tyrin Kelly and Kai Thorpe who are commonly referred to as the underdogs of Montreal. Originally from Ottawa, the pair met in high school and bonded over bands like Black Moth Super Rainbow and Cleaners from Venus. After migrating to Montreal they formed a live band and coincidentally started working for a toy company, grooming dolls by day and tracking demos at night.
At their studio in Rosemont, the group builds their own compressors and records on an 8 track reel to reel. Their love for analog equipment is essential in capturing the warm sounds that bake their songs together. When the band isn’t brewing songs, they run a screen printing collective called Trap Door Printing - a local studio that prints merch for bands.