This new addition to our brand is a column dedicated to the night life (and some days) in the great city of Toronto, featuring live event photos. Tracey Savein brings an incredible eye (of the lens) capturing special moments in time. Because as the saying goes – A picture is worth a thousand words.

To kick off the column I asked Tracey to provide her 10 favourite photos from the past and present and she did not disappoint.

Hello Everyone,

First up, a big thank you to Sandy Graham and the Cashbox Canada team for having me aboard. I’m thrilled to be added to the masthead of this storied publication.

I’ve had camera in hand for a good part of my life. As a kid, borrowing my Dad’s Instamatic to document friends on the last day of school or up at summer camp, I thought it fun and important to have a visual memory of the people and events around me, as these images would be a reminder of moments in time, something to last forever. Throughout the years, music, travel, art and nature, locales and current events and sports and entertainment were all added as my shutter subjects, tying in the love I have for all of these things into a career in photography.

SING! The Toronto International Vocal Artist Festival is Canada’s premier a cappella festival (singing without instruments). Held every year in May, SING! presents a week of outstanding concerts featuring the human voice. We bring together thousands of professional singers (Canadian and international), students, teachers, divas and in-the-shower belters. For more information visit: https://singtoronto.com/

One of the featured events of the SING! Music Business Summit is (in person) One-on-One Sessions with today’s industry leaders. This is a unique opportunity to connect with experts from many aspects of the music industry. Each attendee gets quality one on one time to discuss their own questions and ideas about marketing, media, publicity, royalty collection, bookings and more, with professionals from each of those areas. Meetings are on a first-come, first-served basis, so come early to sign up for the people you would like to meet! Space is limited so sing up ASAP here: https://singtoronto.tickit.ca/events/29062

Meet the experts:

Burlington Business leader/Philanthropist and award-winning videographer and Health and Wellness broadcaster team up to show how people Rise and Thrive.

Life can be beautiful, but also challenging.

And everyone, has challenging times.

That begs the question; how do people face those challenges, and Rise and Thrive?

The answers will come in a six-part, 30-minute mental health awareness video podcast series designed to educate, inspire, and promote mental wellness. Rise and Thrive is a six-part, 30-minute video podcast series featuring Ted Michaels and Michael Paletta. It focuses on critical mental health challenges such as anxiety, depression, suicide prevention, and stress management, while showcasing real-life stories of resilience and recovery. Each 30-minute episode delves into real-life stories and highlights various themes, such as Physical Activity, Art, Music, Photography, Spirituality, and Pets, offering practical tips and actionable insights to viewers.

Meet the Team:

DEVO continues to celebrate 50 years of de-evolution on tour this spring, summer and fall of 2025. In honor of these legendary live shows DEVO Fine Art Prints is activating a hyper-limited art convergence in select cities.

DEVO will appear and present their fine art photography: a curated, strictly limited-edition portfolio of five rare or never-before-seen DEVO images by world-class lens operators: Neal Preston, Ebet Roberts, Allan Tannenbaum and Richard Alden Peterson. The prints are now available at the galleries shown below. 

What makes it worthy to you, the DEVOlutionary Army of savvy collectors?

These museum quality prints not only provide inconvertible proof of DEVO’s prescient visual impact on the history of music, they are hand-signed C numbered - No digital trickery, just pure analog DEVOtion.

Each print arrives with a Certificate of Authenticity – Hand-signed by DEVO to prevent counter- revolutionary fraud.

Limited Ǫuantities! – Once they’re gone, they’re gone. No reboots, no clones. The original art.

MAY 28 – JUNE 8, 2025 | TICKETS & INFO: lulaworld.ca/

In a time when music festivals across Canada are shrinking, folding, or reimagining themselves, one festival is standing tall, louder and prouder than ever. The 19th annual Lulaworld Festival is set to ignite Toronto from May 28 to June 8, 2025, offering a vibrant, soul-stirring celebration of Latin, Brazilian, and global roots music. This is not just a Toronto event — it’s a vital expression of who we are as a country: diverse, creative, and globally connected.

Hosted by Toronto’s legendary Lula Lounge, Lulaworld has evolved into a national cultural landmark — one that offers grassroots intimacy combined with international scope. Over the course of 12 genre-spanning days, more than 200 artists will gather from across Canada and the globe, sharing stages, stories, and songs from Colombia, Cuba, Brazil, Turkey, Jamaica, Nigeria, Algeria, Uruguay, Guatemala, and beyond.

Cashbox Canada, Canada’s premiere online music magazine is launching a new column of live photos from shows and events in Toronto, Canada. Welcome to the advance teaser of our newest column “Picture This” with Tracey Savein of South Paw Productions.

“Picture This”! – the photo column of Cashbox!

Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Harry Manx brought his mesmerizing East meets West sounds, tied up in a bow of Harry humour, to the filled pews at Hugh's Room Live in Toronto

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Acclaimed classical guitarist Emma Rush, hailed as “one of Canada’s premier classical guitarists” (Vivascene Magazine), brings a forgotten icon to vibrant life with her latest album The Life and Times of Catharina Pratten, available everywhere now. With a rare blend of historical depth, expressive mastery, and curatorial brilliance, Rush presents the first-ever album dedicated to 19th-century virtuosa Catharina Josepha Pratten, a woman whose legacy she is determined to restore.

Torontonians among first to experience the new production from the producers of the phenomenon immersive Van Gogh, the original experience that captivated audiences around the globe.

With more than 6 million people around the world having experienced the original Immersive Van Gogh, the phenomenal success of this blockbuster sensation is an unprecedented Canadian success story. The first exhibit of its kind in North America, Immersive Van Gogh made box office history with an estimated 1 in every 50 Americans having experienced this unique sensory extravaganza. The spectacular digital art exhibition, that inspired numerous copycat exhibits, was dubbed by the New York Times as best in class.

If you're a fan of The Tragically Hip, chances are you have already been swept up into the whirlwind of nostalgia, fandom, and stories that is The Tragically Hip Top Forty Countdown. Hosted by JD Dew, this podcast has taken the Hipverse by storm, reaching #1 on Apple Podcasts Music Commentary in Canada, and charting in over 10 countries. Out now, JD drops one of the most anticipated episodes yet—an in-depth conversation with legendary broadcaster and Hip fan Ron MacLean, just in time for the kickoff of the NHL playoffs.

This isn’t just another episode. This is a moment. Ron MacLean—who was there in the trenches of Canadian culture, calling the games, quoting lyrics, and wearing his love for the Hip on his sleeve—joins JD for a candid conversation about the band’s legacy, personal memories of Gord Downie, and what it means to be Canadian in 2025. MacLean’s appearance adds a powerful new layer to a podcast already praised as “articulate,” “riveting,” and “the ultimate podcast for Hip fans.”

Cashbox Canada, Canada’s premiere online music magazine is launching a new column of live photos from shows and events in Toronto, Canada. Welcome to the advance teaser of our newest column “Picture This” with Tracey Savein of South Paw Productions.

“Picture This” – the photo column of Cashbox!

Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, A.J. Croce brings his father, Jim Croce’s legacy of iconic songs to the stage with the “Croce Plays Croce 50th Anniversary Tour”

The JazzInToronto Community Celebration, running May 30 to June 1, brings swing, soul, and Stevie Wonder tributes to life across downtown — with free concerts, iconic venues, and an all-Canadian lineup that champions the city’s diverse musical spirit.

Toronto has a brand-new jazz festival and it’s all about celebrating the city’s richly diverse local talent pool. The JazzInToronto Community Celebration will take place throughout the downtown core May 30, 31 and June 1st. Produced by musicians Lina Welch and Ori Dagan – who collectively run JazzInToronto, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting live music – the festival is a young grassroots affair fueled by a passion for community.

“When it comes to the combination of talent and diversity, there is probably no place in the world quite as vibrant as Toronto,” says JazzInToronto’s artistic director Ori Dagan. “The hardest part about programming a festival like this is narrowing it down, as there are so many local musicians deserving of attention.”

Charlie Wall-Andrews, a visionary leader, scholar and artist, continues to make an indelible impact in the music and creative industries through her dedication to creativity, leadership, and research.

A Joyful Comeback for Generations of Family Music Fans

 She’s back! 2x JUNO-nominated children’s music icon Rosalie Moscoe has returned with Kids Power!, an energetic, empowering, and long-awaited album for kids and families—many of whom grew up singing along to her songs and are now introducing them to their own children. With a career spanning decades Moscoe has been a formative presence in the world of family-friendly music, inspiring joy, imagination, and a love of learning. Now, after years away, she’s stepping back into the spotlight with a fresh collection of uplifting tunes and bonus tracks, proving that the power of music—and childhood wonder—never fades.

As co-creator and Executive Producer of SING! The Toronto International Vocal Arts Festival, Pat has been a driving force in the Canadian festival scene for over 40 years. From founding major events to designing innovative programming and building lasting partnerships, her impact is profound and lasting.

Cashbox caught up with Pat at her home in the east end of Toronto, “I am always humbled when I receive any award, especially one like this. I am proud and privileged to be able to give voices and artists a chance to shine. Music is and always will be my love, my joy, What a privilege it has been to work in the music industry all these years, especially highlighting Canadian talent."

Welcome to Hipsville is an all-night garage rock getaway featuring some of Toronto's hottest rock n roll, surf, and garage bands & DJs. Five live bands and five DJs will be tearing up the dance floor!

Birdsong artist Terry Witzu opens up about songwriting after a six-year hiatus. Producer Ted Adler shares how there is no communication barrier when musicians use music as their language for both in-studio production and healing.

I first met Terry Witzu at a coffeeshop in Ottawa in February 2024, after he had applied for a Birdsong New Music Grant, which finances indie song production from individuals diagnosed with mental illness.

What strikes me on this cold, wintery morning, after I pick him up from his small apartment in Vanier, Ottawa’s east end, is how excited he is about addressing all things music. He tells me how much he loves so many musical genres and name-drops bands I’ve never heard of for over an hour.

Terry’s manner is engaging and articulate and his music stories are fabulous and fascinating. He also tells me he has a lot of musical equipment at his place but had not played music or composed in over six years!” That gets me. 

Sometimes you just can't stand still. Your foot starts tapping in slow, rhythmic time...one..two..three..four. Next, your head's bobbin' to accompany your foot, chin jutting out, one..two..three..four. Now, arms up, the swaying starts and then things really heat up, you're movin' and a groovin', can't stop, don't want to. It's Angélique Kidjo after all.

The five-time grammy award winner breezed into Koerner Hall and took Toronto by storm. Another five, the number of languages Ms. Kidjo speaks and sings in - Fon, French, Yorübá, Gen (Mina) English and five plus another five, her music mixing jazz, hip-hop, zouk, Zairean rumba, samba, salsa, funk, gospel, Cameroonian makossa, and various Beninese traditions (hers from home) was a veritable trip five times around the globe.

The Yorkton Film Festival has announced the first round of nominees for the 2025 Golden Sheaf Awards, with Ultramagnetic Productions’ new documentary Play it Loud! How Toronto Got Soul earning a nomination for Best Arts/Culture Film.

The TVO Original doc reveals the vibrant but largely ignored Toronto Jamaican music scene from the 1960’s to the ‘90’s, through the life and music of the legendary Jay Douglas. The teenaged Douglas moved to Toronto to join his mother in 1963 and was quickly initiated into a thriving, underground Black music scene. As the lead singer of The Cougars, a group that included local legends Jackie Richardson, Jo Jo Bennett and Everton “Pablo” Paul, Douglas broke into the competitive Yonge Street music scene as one of only two bands to play at the storied Le Coq d’Or. The other group was Ronnie Hawkins’ Hawks, precursor to The Band.

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Tommy James — best known for hit 1960s singles such as “Mony Mony,” “Hanky Panky,” “Crimson and Clover” and “I Think We’re Alone Now” — still maintains a busy touring schedule with his band the Shondells, and also works as a DJ on SiriusXM satellite radio’s ’60s Gold channel (channel 73), and on various other projects. And next month, he will marry his longtime manager Carol Ross. “We’re squeezing this wedding in, between two gigs,” he says with a laugh.

For decades, James’ and Ross’ relationship was platonic. But after Ross’ husband Bill died in 2011, and James’ wife Lynda died in 2022, that changed. Their wedding is scheduled for April 5.

James calls it “kind of a cool little love story.”

Rick Springfield recently found out that a bad fall he took in 2000 resulted in brain damage. The 75-year-old "Jessie's Girl" singer has revealed that after getting a whole-body MRI scan he was told that he still has lasting brain damage from an on-stage tumble during a Las Vegas show 25 years ago.

"I fell 25 feet, hit my head and then wood came down and hit my head, and then my head hit the stage again," Springfield said of the nasty fall. "I thought I had just broken my wrist, but on the scan, I found out I have some brain damage from the fall, so I'm working on trying to repair that." Unlike most people, who Springfield said "don't want to know what's wrong with them," the singer and former soap opera star said he's the "opposite."

And with good reason.