A special night to benefit the Pros & Cons Prison Arts program!

Hugh Christopher Brown, Dave Wall, and Jason Mercer from Toronto indie soul-funk trailblazers The Bourbon Tabernacle Choir will be joined by drummer Liam Cole and guitarist Kevin Lacroix for a concert tribute to The Band’s legendary album, Music From Big Pink.

TICKETS

ADVANCE: $35 + HST & service charge
DOOR: $45

PROS AND CONS PROGRAM

This show will be a benefit concert for the Pros and Cons Program, which helps create music in prisons to support healing, restorative justice, victim support, and education. Participants obtain practical knowledge and skills across platforms of music, recording engineering, and computer literacy. Funds raised by Pros and Cons provide instruments, recording equipment and mentors to teach skills, promote healing in situ for incarcerated people.

BOURBON TABERNACLE CHOIR

If you were a music head in the 1990s, chances are you remember Toronto’s Bourbon Tabernacle Choir. With a devoted following and a sound unlike anything else on the scene, they weren’t just a band — they were a phenomenon. Their infectious mix of musicianship, energy, soul, and funk filled clubs and won hearts across the continent.

THE BAND: MUSIC FROM BIG PINK

The Band — not the Bourbons band, but the legendary 1960s-1970s roots-rock ensemble of Robbie Robertson, Garth Hudson, Levon Helm, Richard Manuel, and Rick Danko — released their debut album Music from Big Pink in 1968, after years of being Ronnie Hawkins’ band The Hawks, and later, the band that Bob Dylan went electric with. Songs like the The Weight became classics — and Big Pink went on to become one of the most influential albums of all time.