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Originally Posted by Acajack
That's what I thought. Somehow I doubt that Michel Rivard, Marie-Mai, Coeur de Pirate, Stefie Shock, Corneille, K-maro, Ariane Moffatt or even Malajube jam with musicians from Toronto...
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Coeur de Pirate, Ariane Moffatt, and Malajube at least are part of the same scene. Off the top of my head I'm not familiar with the others. I’m not sure what you mean by “jamming with Toronto musicians” but these bands tour nationally and draw the same audiences as English indie bands. I don’t think they tour the US as much as the Anglo bands do, but I’m guessing that they do tour Europe almost as much. The Montreal music scene is very collaborative and mutually supportive, btw, and I’m sure they jam with lots of prominent Anglo musicians in Montreal. There are some good quotes from Merrill Garbus on this, amongst others. If you’re interested in Toronto in particular there is one sort of Toronto connection I can think of. Coeur de Pirate did a song (perhaps more than one?) with Jay Malinowski of the band Bedouin Soundclash. Malinowski is originally from Vancouver but he started his band while he was going to school at Queen’s in Kingston, and I think they’re now based out of Toronto, so that’s kind of Toronto.
There is no mile-end/west queen west “circuit” btw. KM is just doing what KM does. Most of the big name indie bands go on long tours through North American or Europe, and the up and coming ones tend to do tours down the east coast of the US. One of the many reasons these artists move to Montreal is its proximity to the large population centres on the east coast of the US, where there are some very similarly minded leading edge music scenes, like Brooklyn.
SXSW 2012: Montreal is the new Brooklyn
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture...-new-brooklyn/
http://blogues.lapresse.ca/musique/2...veau-montreal/
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We could have some long discussion about Canadian music, btw, but I’m not sure this is the right thread. And I'm not sure our friends, who seem to be deeply immersed in the Toronto media myths about the Toronto music scene, would be very happy with what they'd learn.