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the letter 'T'The following concerts in Tofino are happening in the summer of 2010. Tickets are available at Tofitian and Long Beach Surfshop in Tofino.

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tofino concert - dj murge

july 1, 2010D.J. Murge

Thursday, July 1, 2010
Tofino Legion
Tickets $8 | Doors 9pm

DJ Murge has been playing the club scene for over 10 years now. His eclectic up tempo sets always keep the booty's shaking . His style of music caters to all tastes across the board. If it's funky it's in his set. He pushes fresh music and new music, and is best known for digging up surprises from the past. Murge has produced tracks for the likes of Slug (Atmosphere), Swollen Members and remixed work for Tegan & Sara. It seems the key to success in this game is diversity, and the ability to wear an infinite number of hats, while still maintaining your core vision for your art. Murges Dj sets are the product of his vision for his music, and through it, he hopes too show the industry, and the clubbing community, that its time to start paying close attention.

tofino concert - nye sullivan band

july 1, 2010Canada Day with Nye Sullivan & Guests

Thursday, July 1, 2010
Maquinna Pub, Tofino
Tickets $5 | Doors 9 pm

Celebrate our country's birthday with Nye Sullivan and various other local talents.

The Nye Sullivan Band is a four-piece, blues-rock band, based out of Halifax, Nova Scotia. They play all original music and are known to move the crowd at their shows. The band consists of Nye Sullivan who writes the music, sings, plays guitar and harp, Aaron Judge on bass, Luke Meredith on the drums and Scott Turnbull on lead guitar.

tofino concert - the black seeds

july 9, 2010The Black Seeds - CANCELLED

Friday, July 9, 2010
Tofino Community Hall
Tickets $tbd | Doors 8 pm

Originating from Wellington, New Zealand, The Black Seeds have carved out their reputation through platinum selling albums, a masterful 8-piece live show, and a unique sound that fuses infectious grooves and melodies with undiluted roots music. Led by the vocals of Barnaby Weir and Daniel Weetman, at its core The Black Seeds music is a boundary-crossing sound fusion of big-beat funk, dub, soul, and afro-beat, mixed with vintage roots-reggae.

tofino concert - miesha and the spanks

july 9, 2010Miesha & the Spanks
with Pine Tarts

Friday, July 9, 2010
Maquinna Pub, Tofino
Tickets $10 | Doors 9 pm

Miesha & The Spanks are a ferocious garage-pop twosome! Fronted by Miesha Louie, the gut-spilling songstress, and held down by Justin Landstorfer, the hard-hitting juggernaut, these two make a deadly pairing. They will be joined by Pine Tarts, best categorized as garage rock, but with more sweetness and pop to them. This is their first real tour, but their latest release is in this month's Exclaim!'s top 40.

tofino concert - mojave

july 10, 2010Mojave
at the Tofino Peace Festival

Saturday, July 10, 2010
Tofino Village Green
Free event| Mojave @ 6 pm

It all began with acoustic guitars, two voices and a Vancouver beach. In 2007, Paul and Lisa Jarvis started writing songs together as a mellow release from their hard rock bands. By the time those bands called it quits, the duo had enough material for the first Mojave album, Stories. The Mojave sound takes Paul and Lisa’s hard rock roots and winds in a quieter intensity. Lisa’s clear vocals soar over delicate acoustic guitars, viola, violin, and eclectic percussion – weaving melodies, telling stories.

tofino concert - bison bc

july 23, 2010Bison B.C.

Friday, July 16, 2010
Tofino Legion
Tickets $15 | Doors 9 pm

Hailing out of East Vancouver Bison B.C. have been playing their scorching thrash punk metal since 2006. The group was born from the ashes of seminal Vancouver skate-thrash band S.T.R.E.E.T.S. Their sound is a colossal wall of fuzzed out shredding, they are a headbangers dream. Their message is punk rock angst and revolution.

Self-described “Canadian dirtbags” and veterans of Vancouver’s deep thrash and indie scenes, they are hitting their stride and offering up a new soundtrack for our last party before certain extinction. There is illness, abuse, apocalypse, and French horn. This is definitely a band for fans of doom, stoner rock, sludge, and good old fashioned heavy metal.

tofino concert - framed faces

july 23, 2010Framed Faces
with the Summer Brothers

Friday, July 23, 2010
Maquinna Pub, Tofino
Tickets $10 | Doors 9 pm

The members of Framed Faces have spent their lives making emotionally charged music. Presented as a waltz of rock and folk strung together with haunting harmony, Framed Faces is the combined experience of four storytellers.

Framed Faces will be joined The Sumner Brothers who like many of their heroes before them; Johnny Cash, Townes Van Zandt or Neil Young, their songs aim to pierce hearts and dig deep beneath the skin. If the Brothers don't own a song, if it does not live in the depths of their hearts and come from that place of true raw emotion, it doesn't come at all, if they don't believe it, you won't hear it from them. It is this commitment to authenticity that first drew the brothers to the songs of country, folk and blues, to roots music.

tofino concert - kobra and the lotus

july 30, 2010Kobra and the Lotus

Friday, July 30, 2010
Maquinna Pub, Tofino
Tickets $10 | Doors 9 pm

Kobra and the Lotus is a female fronted heavy metal band from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Forming in late 2008, Kobra and the Lotus released their debut Album Out of the Pit in March 2010, in Canada on Sonic Unyon Distribution.

The album was a popular release on campus radio charts across Canada and several US internet Metal radio stations. The band's sound is often compared to Lee Aaron and Iron Maiden.

tofino concert - hey ocean

july 31, 2010Hey Ocean - CANCELLED

Saturday, July 31, 2010
Tofino Legion
Tickets $15 | Doors 9pm

Hey Oceans mellow guitar grooves, eargasmic vocals, and upbeat jazzy licks keep listeners comfortably sitting, standing, or dancing, while they are washed out to sea and carefully brought back to shore. Passionate voices, pensive words, and frivolous fun keep this music honest and pure: from the heart, for the soul.

The quartet draws on influences from folk, reggae, funk, jazz, rock, hip hop, and more delivering finely crafted pop and funky freeform jams. Their music also borrows from several world music genres; due to the band members travels in Central America, Nepal, China and Europe.

tofino concert - current swell

july 31, 2010Current Swell

Saturday, July 31, 2010
Tofino Legion
Tickets $15 | Doors 9pm

Vancouver Island based band Current Swell has a unique style of music that is deeply rooted in folk and blues, reggae inspired, and rock driven. The musical recipe is equal parts prairie and coastal, blending a couple of acoustic guitars, a lap slide, harmonica, drums, bass, and 4 vocal mics. This formula amounts to a tightly polished act and is pushing the boundary of what people know as new music.

tofino concert - tough guys and girls cry

august 6, 2010Tough Guys and Girls Cry
with Lonewolf United

Friday, August 6, 2010
Tofino Legion
Tickets $10 with CD | Doors 9pm

Tough Guys and Girls Cry, Tofino's resident grunge, pop quartet will performing with you friendly neighbourhood duo, Lonewolf United. This is the official release of Tough Guys and Girls Cry self titled album as well as the inaugural show for Lonewolf United.

tofino concert - ganga giri

august 7, 2010Ganga Giri

Saturday, August 7, 2010
Tofino Legion
Tickets $20 | Doors 9pm

Ganga Giri mixes red natural elements with fat tribal beats and dirty funky bass lines to create a unique tribal-technological deep earth dance experience. Explosive and pulsating, at times ambient and flowing, the music is a pumping percussive multi-layered experience of complex grooves and raw, deep natural sound.

Ganga himself is a rhythmic didjeridu virtuoso and percussionist - an inspired music creator who's passion brings people together in celebration of nowness in newness, a modern day corroberre for all!

Carving a niche in the DJ dominated world of dance music, Ganga Giri is an energetic, innovative and incredibly live act. Ganga Giri's full show blends an array of tribal percussion that includes Ganga's uniquely percussive style didj playing, congas, djembe, bougarabou, Nigerian talking drum, mbira and more.

tofino concert - ruby jean

august 13, 2010Ruby Jean

Friday, August 13, 2010
Tofino Legion
Tickets $15 | Doors 9pm

Dance-y to a thoroughly sweaty and satisfying extent, Ruby Jean is the thing that Gloria Estefan was warning you about when she sang the "rhythm is gonna get you," and the Maritimes' high-energy answer to the dance-rock movement that seems to be sweeping the nation. Pulsating, nasty, punky, groovy — Ruby Jean is all of these things and more, a confident, smirking monster of a good time that seems destined to take the country by storm. Ruby Jean shows are ground-poundingly ecstatic. Ruby Jean harvest sounds akin to Tiga, Daft Punk, MSTRKRFT and 80s-era Madonna. A motley assortment of Halifax indie-rock ne’er-do-wells, Ruby Jean have cobbled together a formula for
organic dance party success.

tofino concert - the bonitos

august 13, 2010The Bonitos
with Keg Killers

Friday, August 13, 2010
Maquinna Pub, Tofino
Tickets $10 | Doors 9pm

Billy Hopeless of the Black Halos went grave robbing, dug up some pieces of Canada's most notorious bands and created this new monster, The Bonitos. They share influences “from AC/DC to ZZ Top, as long as it’s rock.” They'll be performing with The Keg Killers, who describe themselves as "old punk" in the vein of classic Canadian bands like The Subhumans, The Viletones and Teenage Head.

tofino concert - play guitar

august 20, 2010Play Guitar
with OK Vancouver OK and Special Noise

Friday, August 20, 2010
Maquinna Pub, Tofino
Tickets $6 | Doors 9pm

Halifax, Montreal and the Yukon combine forces to bring the glorious sounds of Play Guitar, joined by Greenbelt Collective artist ok Vancouver ok.

tofino concert - marty dread

august 21, 2010Marty Dread

Saturday, August 21, 2010
Tofino Legion
Tickets $20 | Doors 9pm

Marty Dread was born in the Bronx New York and moved the Hawaiian island of Maui as a young child. His career as a reggae artist started with his 1992 hit a 'Wicked Wahine'. Marty's style is rich in island vibe and traditional reggae roots but with a healthy dose of hip hop and dance hall. Constantly on the cutting edge, whether live on stage, or in the studio, Marty Dread is known as 'Hawaii's reggae ambassador.' Drawing inspiration from his tropical home of Maui, Hawaii, Dread rules as the island's hottest performer-recording artist, with over two decades of constant live performances, four Hoku award nominations (Hawaii's version of the Grammy's), and a constant international touring schedule.

tofino concert - skratch bastid

august 24, 2010Skratch Bastid

Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Tofino Legion
Tickets $10 | Doors 9:00pm

Born in Halifax, raised on Planet Rock, Skratch Bastid has been a hip hop junkie since before he became a teen. Quickly realizing the role of the rapper wasn't his forte, he applied his obsessive musical interest to DJing, which moved naturally from cassette mixtapes in his basement to performing on stage with groups and competing in DJ battles before finding his niche playing parties, clubs and festivals. An addicted record collector inspired by many styles of music, Skratch moves quickly between genres and smoothly between tempos, while keeping things quintessentially funky. Yes, quintessentially. Technically apt, but soulfully grounded. His Get Up! mix was heralded as one of last year's best Mix CDs by TurntableLab, spinning hip-hop, funk, disco and rock into a quilt of awesome. Satisfaction guaranteed.

tofino concert - aaron nazrul and the boom booms

august 28, 2010Aaron Nazrul
and the Boom Booms

Saturday, August 28, 2010
Tofino Legion
Tickets $20 | Doors 9:00pm

Aaron Ross is the bird on the branch in the tree of life and perches all day and all night unless you play some funky jams and then he’ll flap down and flap around the dancefloor, and maybe even sing. He’s East Vancouver born and raised, and has hoofed it all over the globe, with no qualms about doing it again and again. Aaron plays the nylon strings with grace but more noteably has a powerful and emotive voice, one that carries the band’s songs out of the “pretty good” range and into the ”spicy, saucy, smooth, singable soulful salad of a song” range instead.
Geordie Hart is the hawk in the evening beams, swooping amongst the ferns in a symphony of light. He went to school with Aaron, and they’ve been making jams since they were 10 years old. Geordie is 3 years educated in the fine art of Jazz music, also lending his ear and bass strings to Malleus Trio, a Vancouver-based ensemble filled out by Ben Brown on drums and Dominic Conway on Sax. Geordie has been known to cook a fine meal many-a-night on the propane stove in the RV, drives like a madman, and rocks the western front like a stuntman rocks a stunt.
Tom van Deursen is a kootenay child. After an adventerous youth scampering around the forest waving wooden swords, Tom moved on to bigger things in life. Namely, built-to-scale wooden rifles. Next came SWAT, and then eventually highschool, which brought the arts into the limelight. Tom enjoyed life in a small town, good friends, rock and roll, eventually starting his own rock band, Carnival Red. Moments before that became a global phenomonon, however, fate interviened in the form of a bags, shovels and dirty work – treeplanting. It was there, in the bowels of British Columbia, that he met Aaron and Geordie, and thus the current Boom Booms, in their most infant form, were born. Tom has been twanging strings since he was 13, and at age 20 he brings a bit of rock and roll to the band’s sound.
Theo Vincent IS rock n’ roll. Appearing in as many high-profile bands as he does high-profile jams Vancouver-wide, Theo has been with the Boom Booms since day..well, realistically, day 3, and when not slaying it up with local/global rhythm powerhouse Kutapira, he is a Boom Boom drummer, hype guy, and provides the pounding world pulse at the core of the songs. Theo plays over 5,000 shows a month and barely has time for anything but boom boomin’ around and doin’ his thang.

tofino concert - chali 2na

september 24, 2010Chali 2na

Friday, September 24, 2010
Tofino Legion
Tickets $tba | Doors 9pm

Bearing an identifiably deep baritone voice, Chali 2na (born Charles Stewart, Jr.) became the unofficial point man for West Coast underground favorite Jurassic 5. Originally from southside Chicago, Stewart first gained an interest in graffiti writing before getting into music.

As part of two critically acclaimed ensembles, Chali 2na sent waves in the music world with each of their debuts; Jurassic 5's major-label debut, Quality Control (2000), has been deemed a benchmark for alternative West Coast hip-hop. Chali emerged as J5's most popular member and was frequently tapped for guest appearances on many other artists' material over the years, like that of Swollen Members, Linkin Park, Blackalicious, Kardinal Offishal, and Roots Manuva. His solo foray began in 2004 with his Fish Market mixtapes. Fish Outta Water, his first official solo album, was finally issued two years later on the Defcon label.

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