Eat Your Heart Out, Tovah

I (TOVAH) am playing a short set at the EYAOJG queer arts festival in Saskatoon on February 11th, 2012. This'll probably be the last time I play in this city for a long time so cum say, fuck off!

Jale Grand Closing

I'll be playing a short set as TOVAH at the final Jale show tonight. The line up looks incredible, check it out!

3pm Screening of No Fun City

4:30 The Karpinka Brothers
5:00 The Seahags
5:30 The Shakey Elevators
6:15 Skit Skit performance
6:45 Breaker Breaker
7:15 Before and Apace
7:45 Adolyne
8:15 DJ Shakey Wilson
8:45 Miss Daily
9:15 Paper Beat Scissors
9:45 Tovah
10:15 Zombifyus
10:45 Form
11:15 Whiskey Face
12:00 Pirate Fridays
12:30 Mehta
1:00 Feral Children

Vive is moving again! After a great year of quality shows at Jale
(Caffe Sola), Vive is leaving for greener pastures. The cafe requires more space for their growing business and is expanding throughout the upper level of the building. The current Jale space will no
longer be available to Vive as of the beginning of September.

This has given Vive the opportunity to further explore performance
space options in Saskatoon. We are re-grouping now and planning to
re-emerge with a new physical space in the spring of 2012.

To fund the move, storage, and help us towards the next phase (Vive
3.0), we are hosting a Vive fundraiser slash grand closing party on
Sat September 3rd, 2011 @ Jale.

Vive will continue hosting shows through the fall and winter at the
Roxy Theatre, Walker's, the two-twenty, and even a few house shows. The Jale move will not affect vf4 (planning is underway).

Thanks for your support and dedication to Saskatoon's music
scene and to Vive music.

Julie Doiron Day

I'll be making my official solo bebut as TOVAH on Tuesday June 7th 2011, in Bruno, SK. I'm especially excited to play alongside my bffs The Seahags and Jeans Boots.

The Bruno Arts Bank is a little gem that is "available to artists, musicians, writers & performers to use as a studio/living space environment to develop their practice. The residency is offered for short terms stays typically lasting one to three months. Located one hour east of Saskatoon, artists staying in Bruno will have the opportunity to live in a predominately agricultural community set in a rural Saskatchewan landscape."

And on a semi-related note, I went to see Queer City Cinema's WIDEOPENWIDE Coast to Coast 2011 tour last night. My friend Thirza Cuthand's short film 'You Are a Lesbian Vampire' was one a the featured films on the tour. Her film stars myself and my then girlfriend making-out through the entire film. Anyway, we were both in attendance which was a tiny bit awkward since we haven't talked to each other for about ten months. At the end of the screening I was questioned by a couple of people about how I felt watching the film, was it awkward, etc. Then one of the ladies asked what I was going to do if people later came up to me to tell me how cute we looked kissing each other. I think the firing squad of questions was actually more awkward than the event itself, and all I could think about was this Julie Doiron song: