@jdovercourt
Music presenter, writer, researcher, policy geek, Toronto. Climate change is real. Wavelength Music (co-founder & Artistic/Executive Director), Any Night of the Week (Coach House Books), Toronto Music Advisory Committee, Music Declares Emergency 🇨🇦.
Wavelength Music and Sonic Boom Music are proud to unveil a new presenting partnership between the two music-loving independent Toronto institutions.
There could not be a more natural partnership, and look forward to an incredible year of music together!
📣FESTIVAL LINE-UP JUST ANNOUNCED! NEWSLETTER PRESALE NOW LIVE, PUBLIC ON-SALE FRIDAY DEC.12 @ 10AM!📣
Wavelength Music Festival + Conference
March 19-21, 2026 — Toronto
Wavelength @ St. Anne’s
+ AGO + The Baby G + The Garrison + InterAccess + Lula Lounge
Tickets: bit.ly/WMFC2026
Wavelength Summer Thing is back - by the lake!
This annual celebration returns to SummerSeries in Trillium Park for two full days of FREE live music. Ranging from indie folk to psychedelic electronica to poetic hip-hop, Canadian creativity is on full display.
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@wavelengthmusic.bsky.social x Yamaha Canada x Marker Starling = delicious collab combo.
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Wavelength Winter Fest was a celebration to remember. Thank you all for joining us in marking our 25th year!
To commemorate this fantastic event, we have put together a zine reminiscent of our early days: bit.ly/WF25zine
We cannot wait to see what the next 25 years will bring 🎉🎉🎉
We were seriously stunned by the transformation St. Anne’s Parish went through for Winter Fest.
Thank you to the visual artists who put so much love and creativity into our space:
Anthony Piazza
General Chaos Visuals with the Liquid Crystal Display
Roxanne Ignatius
Stephanie Avery
📸Green Yang
I shared some memories of the @wavelengthmusic.bsky.social Winter Festival over the last 25 years for @exclaimdotca.bsky.social
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Feb 21st of #BHM
Making space: Jackie Shane and Toronto's R&B microscenes
via Tobin Ng
h/t #djDeniseBenson @jdovercourt.bsky.social @coachhousebooks.bsky.social
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Tune in to Big City Small World tomorrow (Saturday Feb 22) at 3:05pm to hear @itsmepagliacci.bsky.social and @jdovercourt.bsky.social chat about Wavelength Winter Fest!
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so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky
So the Wavelength Winter Festival starts on Feb. 27, just 10 days away… but that’s not what I’m here to talk about today! Feb. 27 is ALSO now Election Day here in Ontario. ....
Read the whole post here:
www.jonnydovercourt.com/news/ontario...
I sincerely hope this costs Ford the election. Never forget, criminal Conservative grifters protect each other.
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Elon Musk tweet: We spent the wekend feeding USAID
Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it?
1/ Trump’s presidency should be a wake-up call for Canadians.
His chaotic leadership is just one symptom of a deeper problem—an outdated winner-take-all electoral system.
Let’s not assume we’re immune. 🧵
I cannot wait for this. #TeamSecUnit
Call for musicians! The @musicvotesontario.bsky.social coalition is looking for musicians to participate in three actions coming up the following three Saturday in ridings around Toronto. Also looking for someone to assist with doing sound. 🎶 🗳️ 🔊
Sigh up here: bit.ly/musicvotesONcall
A data visualization graphic titled "Which voters back proportional representation?" shows the results of a national poll conducted by EKOS Research. A large circular chart indicates that 68% of Canadians support proportional representation, while smaller charts display support levels by party: 72% of Liberal voters, 54% of Conservative voters, 83% of NDP voters, 87% of Green voters, 74% of Bloc voters, and 77% of PPC voters. The chart uses green for support, red for opposition, and gray for "don't know." The EKOS logo appears in the bottom left, and the website www.fairvote.ca/prpoll2025 is displayed at the bottom.
🚨 BREAKING: 68% of Canadians want to make every vote count! 🚨
A new poll confirms overwhelming support for proportional representation. Will the next Liberal leader listen?
📢 Make your voice heard! Tag your MP, share this post & demand action!
Read more here: www.fairvote.ca/03/02/2025/n...
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A photograph of Bonhomme, the official representative of the Québec Winter Carnival. He is a big white snowman wearing a red tuque.
Going to tell Trump this is Canada’s Fentanyl Czar.
He blinked.
2 days ago Donald demanded our nationhood as the price of peace.
Then we hit with $125bil in counter tariffs and pulled American products off the shelf.
So now he settles for a fentanyl czar.
Canada shows the world how to stand up.
But this is ain't over.
Don't drop your guard.
Support Canadian alternatives!
Worth a read.
This… is a really good idea. 🇨🇦🔬
Just pledged. Seems like the right thing today on this strange and auspicious February 1st.
“I have a foreboding of America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time–when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all of the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; with our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. And when the dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites now down to 10 seconds or less, lowest-common-denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.”
“If it takes a little myth and ritual to get us through a night that seems endless, who among us cannot sympathise and understand? We long to be here for a purpose even though, despite much self-deception, none is evident. The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life’s meaning. We long for our parents to care for us, to forgive us our errors, to save us from our childish mistakes. But knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Our common sense intuitions can be mistaken. Our preferences don’t count. We do not live in a privileged reference frame. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.”
I miss Carl Sagan (1934-1996).
From Cosmos to Contact, in books and on screen, his intellectual work has had a profound impact on me.
In these days of embraced anti-intellectualism, his books should be revisited.
10 years ago WL ran a Pop-Up Gallery for a month on College Street to mark our 15th. It was a Time. Now we’re celebrating our 25th. Time is an illusion (music time doubly so).
Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards
This is concerning.
www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/study-82-of-...
Wintry tunes for Wavelength's 25th c/o local legend Josh Korody.