Prince Edward County Alert!

In recognition of the 10th anniversary of 9/11, award-winning songwriters Greg Quill and Jon Brooks bring their tour-tested two-hander,
Songs of Love, War and Reconciliation,
to the Music in the Vines summer concert series at
Hillier Creek Estates Winery in PEC,
Sunday, September 11, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Hillier Creek Estates Winery
46 Stapleton Road, Hillier ON KOK 2J0
T: 613.399.5114

January 4, 8 and 11. Otherwise see you in Australia!




Friday November 26, 2010

GREG QUILL with JON BROOKS

Please join us at:

The Moonshine Café
137 Kerr Street
Oakville, Ontario
905-844-2655

For more information:
www.themoonshinecafe.com
www.gregquill.com

ABC Radio Sydney's (AM 702) overnight call-in host TREVOR CHAPPELL is interviewing Greg live early MONDAY MORNING OCT. 18, 2.30 A.M. SYDNEY TIME (SUNDAY OCT. 17, 11.30 A.M. EDT). 

If you're not near a Sydney radio, you can get the program live on the Internet here: http://www.abc.net.au/sydney/includes/winstream.asx

Greg will reveal some details of gigs he’s doing in Brisbane, Tamworth, Sydney, Bulli and Melbourne in January and February 2011, with Toronto songwriter Jon Brooks.

Singer-songwriter/educator Bill Heffernan's
9th annual Casa Canadiense folkfest/fundraiser,
supporting Bill's primo cause, the Casa Canadiense nutrition program in Nicaraguan pre-schools, Sunday from noon till 11 p.m. at Rancho Relaxo, 300 College St.

This year's line up includes Juno Award winners Julian Fauth, Donne Robert and Laura Hubert; Jon Brooks; Greg Quill;
Christopher Dignan; Michelle Rumball Beauty Saloon w/Michael Holt and Shelley Coopersmith; Laura Repo;
Jay Clark and the Jones; Joanne Mackell; Junction City Allstars; Gypsy Rebels; Jonathan Lynn & Muldoon; Marc Roy;
Jackson & Sims; Glen Hornblast; Richard Keelan; Robert Davis Blues Duo; Sproai; Cowie-McManus Band; Mr. Rick and the Biscuits; Howard Willett; Kenny Yoshioko; Bill Heffernan and more!

I'm on at 1.45, just after Jon Brooks.

Tickets: $15, $7 after 7 p.m.For more information contact Casa Canadiense 416 642 5781 ext.1 or go to www.thecasa.ca





MIKE McKENNA’s MONSTER BIRTHDAY BASH

Celebrate Mike’s 45 years on
Toronto’s music scene
April 25, 2009
3 p.m. – 11 p.m.
BLACK SWAN TAVERN,
145 Danforth Ave. @ Broadview Ave.

Tickets $10 at 416-690-8762
or by E-mail at dasagar@aol.com

Special guests include
MIKE McKENNA (Mainline, Ugly Ducklings, Luke & the Apostles, Slidewinder, Diamondback)
TONY NOLASCO (Mainline, the Spassicks)
MIKE HARRISON (Mainline, Grant Smith & the Power)
BOB ADAMS (Mainline, Zed Head)
LUKE GIBSON (Luke and the Apostles)
SONNIE BERNARDI (Crowbar, Downchild)
SCOTT "Professor Piano" CUSHNIE (Ronnie Hawkins, Aerosmith)
JOE AGNELLO (Leigh Ashford Band)
KEITH McKIE(Kensington Market)
PETE OTIS (the Pape Gang, the Silver Dollars)
The DIAMONDBACK Band (alumni)
DAVE BINGHAM (Ugly Ducklings)
JOHNNY MACK (Cobalt Blues band)
BRIAN MAXIM (Moxy)
DENIS KELDIE (the Extras, Prairie Oyster, Jeff Healey)
RON "Jake" JACOBS (Slidewinder, Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed, Downchild)
GREG QUILL (Flying Circus, Southern Cross, Greg Quill & The Usual Suspects)
TYLER BURGESS (Gary Kendall Band, Downchild, Stompin' Tom Conners)
DALE K. JONES
PETER McGRAW (Diamondback, Jesus Christ Superstar)
And more … keep checking www.mikemckenna.ca

Tuesday March 31, 2009 @ 9:00 p.m.

GREG QUILL with CAM MacINESS (guitar) and
DENIS KELDIE (accordion)

You really shouldn't miss this ...

THE LOCAL
396 Roncesvalles Ave.
416-535-6225




Saturday March 21, 2009 @ 8:00 p.m.

GREG QUILL with CAM MacINESS (guitar) and
DENIS KELDIE (accordion)

Please join us at:

The Moonshine Café
137 Kerr Street
Oakville, Ontario
905-844-2655

For more information:
www.themoonshinecafe.com
www.gregquill.com






Tuesday January 13, 2009 @ 9:00 p.m.

GREG QUILL with CAM MacINESS (guitar) and
DENIS KELDIE (accordion)

They'll be joined for this one performance by legendary Australian songwriter and guitarist
SAM SEE (www.pardoners.com.au)

You really shouldn't miss this ...

THE LOCAL
396 Roncesvalles Ave.
416-535-6225






Saturday October 11, 9:00 p.m.

GREG QUILL with CAM MacINESS
at
THE LOCAL
396 Roncesvalles Ave.
416-535-6225





Sunday January 27, 7:30 p.m.

A NIGHT ROBBIE BURNS WOULD HAVE LOVED ... SONGS OF LUST, LONGING AND LUBRICATION featuring Scottish folk legend
ENOCH KENT
with
GREG QUILL
OWEN McBRIDE
and concert master
TAM KEARNEY
at
FLYING CLOUD FOLK CLUB/TRANZAC CLUB
292 Brunswick Ave.,
SUNDAY JANUARY 27, 7.30 PM
$20 ($18 members)


For more information:
www.enochkent.ca
www.gregquill.com
www.flyingcloudfolk.ca






Saturday September 29 - 8 p.m.

Please join us at:

The Moonshine Café
137 Kerr Street
Oakville, Ontario
905.844.2655


For more information:
www.themoonshinecafe.com
www.gregquill.com
www.shawnbrush.com






Saturday July 7, 4 - 7 p.m.

Please join us at:

DOMINION ON QUEEN
for an afternoon of great music, great food, and Toronto's best beer!!!

NO COVER ... But the jug will be passed frequently for donations to the QUILL/BROOKS Benevolent Fund.

For more information:

www.jonbrooks.ca
www.gregquill.com
www.dominiononqueen.com








Hope to see you at Toronto City Roots Festival, June 22-24 ... it's an amazing celebration of Canadian song craft and homegrown music.

Check out details at www.torontocityroots.com or for more information on the Gala Festival Opener visit: www.hughsroom.com





Shawn is an exceptionally gifted songwriter, singer and guitarist. He's at his best at his home-away-from-home, the Moonshine Cafe in Oakville, the warmest, friendliest and most intimate music room/resturant/bar in Southern Ontario ... please join us there Saturday night, March 17.

www.gregquill.com

www.shawnbrush.com

www.themoonshinecafe.com





"Shawn's songs have touched my heart, they resonate truth and dedication. The little dude with the big heart gets my vote."
- Daniel Lanois

"Greg Quill is one of the finest songwriters Australian has produced."
- ABC Radio

For more information, go to:

www.gregquill.com

www.shawnbrush.com

www.dominiononqueen.com


Back on the trail …

• Greg Quill returns to Toronto’s Winterfolk Festival Feb. 9-11, joining a fine roster of Canadian and international roots music artists including New Brunswick’s Hot Toddy, Vishten, Brent Mason, Shanklin Road and Ryan Leblanc, as well as Norm Hacking, Michael Brennan, Danny Marks, Marianne Girard, Brian Blain, Wendell Ferguson, British blues master Steve Payne, Laura Repo, Greg Hobbs, Ray Edge, Marty Allen, and the Bebop Cowboys, among 100 artists in six venues in Toronto’s Danforth Village for three days of roots music and blues. FREE EVENT!!

GREG QUILL & THE USUSAL SUSPECTS
AT WINTERFOLK THIS FRIDAY!
With Dennis Keldie (accordian), Bucky Berger (drums) in a rare performance of new and traditional Australian music ...

Friday February 9, 10:30 P.M.
Terri O's Sports Bar & Grill
185 Danforth Ave.

Check out: www.abetterworld.ca for details.



• Greg Quill joins Enoch Kent & Friends in A Night Burns Would Have Liked, this Sunday, Jan. 21, 8 p.m., at the Flying Cloud Folk Club/Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave., Toronto.
Tickets $16 ($14 for members)
at 416-410-FOLK (3655), at the door,
or online at: www.flyingcloudfolk.ca

Returning to the Flying Cloud by popular demand, Enoch Kent and friends celebrate the music, poetry and life of Robert Burns. Enoch will be joined this year by Canadian folk music veteran Ian Bell, Australian singer and songwriter Greg Quill, and traditional Irish instrumentalists Pat Simmonds and Kelly Hood. Expect the unexpected, during an evening of merriment and frolic in the Burnsian tradition.



• Join Greg Quill and primo picker Cam MacInnes in an intimate performance of original and traditional songs this Friday night, Jan. 19, 8 p.m., at Manhattans music club and fine Italian restaurant, 951 Gordon Street, Guelph. Book in advance at 519-767-2440. Tickets $10.
Check venue details at: www.manhattans.ca





Friday September 22, 8 PM

Manhattans
951 Gordon St.
Southdown Guelph

Tickets $5 at 519.767.2440
www.manhattans.ca





Sunday September 17
9 PM

The Moonshine Café
137 Kerr Street
Oakville, Ontario
905.844.2655

www.themoonshinecafe.com





FRIDAY SEPT. 15, 8 p.m.

HUGH’S ROOM
2261 Dundas St. W., Toronto

BOYS DO GIRLS
Featuring: Murray McLauchlan, Stephen Fearing John Oswald, Scott Merritt Danny Greenspoon, Greg Quill, Willie P. Bennett & Kevin Breit performing songs by their favourite female artists

$15 in advance at (416) 531-6604
$17 at the door

www.hughsroom.com

A Michael Wrycraft Presentation




AUGUST 26, 9 p.m.

GREG QUILL & RAY MATERICK

Present …

FRONT PORCH SONGS

THE OLD BOATHOUSE CAFÉ
at GRAND ISLAND BARBECUE
100 Dover Rd.
DUNNVILLE, ON

The friendliest little roadhouse in Southern Ontario, a vintage cottage nestled in a crook of the Grand River on the Erie edge of the Niagara Peninsula … great town, great food, great atmosphere and great music from two of the finest songwriters in Canada …

TICKETS $10 at 905.774.6900

www.raymaterick.com

www.gregquill.com

The Old Boathouse Café



AN EXCEPTIONAL EVENT ...

Scottish folk music legend and proletarian party boy ENOCH KENT joins GREG in an enjoyable display of Scottish and Australian songs, stories and idiom-rich banter next
SATURDAY AFTERNOON,
AUGUST 19,
4 p.m. till 7 p.m. at
DOMINION ON QUEEN,
500 Queen St. E. at Sumach

(A Corktown landmark since 1889, with more than 16 regional and craft beers on tap, imported brews, wonderful wines and a remarkable bill of fare).

No cover charge, but you will be encouraged with typical Scottish-Australian vigour to contribute what you can to the CELTIC-ANTIPODEAN FOLK ARTS SOCIETY (registration pending)

BILL COLGATE AND THE URBANE GUERILLAS return to their nest at Dominion on Queen on the afternoon of Saturday August 26 ...

For more information, go to:

www.enochkent.ca

www.gregquill.com

www.dominiononqueen.com

www.billcolgate.com






SATURDAY JULY 8
7:00 PM Start

The Boathouse Café
100 Dover Rd., Dunnville ON

The funkiest and friendliest little roadhouse in Southern Ontario, nestled in a crook of the Grand River on the southern edge of the Niagara Peninsula … great town, great food, great atmosphere and a great lineup of primo songwriters:
David Celia
Greg Quill
Linda McLean
Bill Culp


TUESDAY JUNE 6
HUGH’S ROOM
2261 Dundas St. W., Toronto
A 4-LETTER WORD THAT STARTS WITH "F"
Canadian Folk Music Awards Benefit
MURRAY MCLAUCHLAN, BOB SNIDER
EVALYN PARRY, GREG QUILL
CHRIS COOLE & SARAH BURNELL
Tickets: $15 at (416) 531-6604

www.hughsroom.com





GREG QUILL & THE USUAL SUSPECTS
Featuring Dennis Pinhorn (bass),
Bucky Berger (drums),
Denis Keldie (accordion)

Thursday January 26, 2006
8:30 p.m.

Lone Star Texas Grill
Ottawa East Location, St. Laurent Blvd.
at The Queensway

Tickets $10 at the door





GREG QUILL & THE USUAL SUSPECTS
Featuring Dennis Pinhorn (bass),
Bucky Berger (drums),
Denis Keldie (accordion)

Friday January 27, 2006
8:30 p.m.

The Black Sheep Inn
763 Riverside Drive, Wakefield QC

Tickets $10 @ Compact Music,
Ottawa Folklore Centre
and www.ticketweb.com


FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY
FEBRUARY 3, 4, 5
WINTERFOLK
Danforth Ave., Toronto,
venues and times TBA

Tickets and details at www.winterfolk.com






GREG QUILL & THE USUAL SUSPECTS
Featuring Dennis Pinhorn (bass),
Bucky Berger (drums),
Denis Keldie (accordion)

Saturday October 29, 8:00 p.m.

Readers Café
144 Queen Street, Dunnville, Ontario
Phone: 905.701.1919
Tickets $10
www.readerscafe.com




GREG QUILL & THE USUAL SUSPECTS
Featuring Dennis Pinhorn (bass),
Bucky Berger (drums),
Cam MacInnes (dobro)

Thursday July 7, 8:30 p.m.

Cadillac Lounge
1296 Queen Street West, Toronto
Phone: 416.536.7717
www.cadillaclounge.com





Mighty monthly song salon …

GREG QUILL & THE USUAL SUSPECTS
Featuring Bucky Berger (drums),
Dennis Pinhorn (bass),
Denis Keldie (accordion)
Plus
A Special Mystery Guest … stay tuned

Wednesday June 1, 9.30 p.m.

Cadillac Lounge
1296 Queen Street West, Toronto
Phone: 416.536.7717
www.cadillaclounge.com





GREG QUILL & THE USUAL SUSPECTS
Wednesday May 4, 9.30 p.m.
THE CADILLAC LOUNGE
1296 Queen Street West, Toronto
Phone: 416.536.7717
Cover $5
www.cadillaclounge.com





GREG QUILL & THE USUAL SUSPECTS
Wednesday April 6, 9.30 p.m.
THE CADILLAC LOUNGE
1296 Queen Street West, Toronto
Phone: 416.536.7717
Cover $5
www.cadillaclounge.com





GREG QUILL (solo)
Opening for RAMBLIN’ JACK ELLIOTT
Thursday March 24, 8.30 p.m.
HUGH’S ROOM
2261 Dundas St. W.
Tickets $28.50 @ 416.531.6604,
$32.50 @ the door




GREG QUILL (solo)
HOMETOWN COUNTRY JUBILEE #4
BOB WILLS CENTENARY
ALL-STAR BIRTHDAY BARN DANCE
Hosted by THE BEBOP COWBOYS
Sunday March 6, 7.30 p.m.
LULA LOUNGE
1585 Dundas St. W.
Tickets $10
Dinner reservations: 416.588.0307




GREG QUILL & THE USUAL SUSPECTS
Featuring DENNIS KELDIE
In concert with
GREGG LAWLESS
Saturday March 5, 9 p.m.
STAIRCASE THEATRE CAFÉ
27 Dundurn St. N., Hamilton
Phone: 905.529.3000
Tickets $8
www.staircase.org


GREG QUILL & THE USUAL SUSPECTS
Wednesday March 2, 9.30 p.m.
THE CADILLAC LOUNGE
1296 Queen Street West, Toronto
Phone: 416.536.7717
Cover $5
www.cadillaclounge.com


GREG QUILL with
Norm Hacking
Kim Beggs
& Mikel Miller
Winterfolk III
www.winterfolk.com
Songwriting Workshop
Sunday Feb. 6, 2005, 2 p.m.
Stanley's,
129 Danforth Ave., Toronto
416.462.3373


GREG QUILL & THE USUAL SUSPECTS
Winterfolk III
www.winterfolk.com
Saturday Feb. 5, 2005, 8 p.m.
The Willow,
193 Danforth Ave., Toronto
416.469.5315
www.thewillow.ca


GREG QUILL
With bassist Dennis Pinhorn
in concert with
THE NONIE CRETE BAND
featuring:
Nonie Crete, Eugene Rea & Tom Leighton
Thursday Jan. 27, 8 p.m.
THE PEPPER JACK CAFE
38 King William, Hamilton
905.525.6666
www.pepperjackcafe.com
Tickets: $8.00


2004 Events

TRIPLE CONCERT BILL:
GREG QUILL
& bassist Dennis Pinhorn
JILL BARBER
With KEITH McLAUGHLIN opening
STAIRCASE THEATRE CAFÉ
Saturday Dec. 4, 8.30 p.m.
27 Dundurn Street North
(one block north of King)
Hamilton Ontario L8R 3C9
Phone: 905.529.3000
Fax: 905.522.5619
E-mail: info@staircase.org
Web: www.staircase.org
RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED
Tickets $8


GREG QUILL
solo performance
Thursday Nov. 4, 9 p.m.
Renaissance Café
1938 Danforth Ave.
Phone 416.422.1441
$5 @ the door


GREG QUILL
Opening for COLIN HAY
Friday Oct. 15, 8.30 p.m.
Hugh’s Room
2261 Dundas St. W.
Phone 416.531.6604 for reservations
$20 advance, $22 @ the door




http://www.steve-payne.net

http://www.michaelpickett.com


GREG QUILL & THE USUAL SUSPECTS
Dennis Pinhorn (bass) · Denis Keldie (accordion)
Friday August 27, 9 pm
THE STAIRCASE CAFÉ THEATRE
27 Dundurn North, Hamilton
(http://www.staircase.org)
$6 @ 905.529.3000, $8 @ the door
Dinner reservations strongly recommended


QUILL•TOLHURST
Greg Quill and Kerryn Tolhurst
With The Usual Suspects
(Dennis Pinhorn, bass; Denis Keldie, accordion;
Anne Lindsay, violin)
Friday August 20-Sunday August 22
Summerfolk Music And Craft Festival
Owen Sound, Ontario
(http://www.summerfolk.org)


ONLY TORONTO DATE… NOT TO BE MISSED!
QUILL•TOLHURST
Greg Quill and Kerryn Tolhurst
With The Usual Suspects
Dennis Pinhorn (bass) · Denis Keldie (accordion)
Thursday August 19, 9 p.m.
CADILLAC LOUNGE
1296 Queen Street West, Toronto
$5 @ the door
(http://www.cadillaclounge.com)


HOMECOMING PERFORMANCE!!!
GREG QUILL & THE USUAL SUSPECTS
Dennis Pinhorn (bass) · Mitchell Lewis (guitars)
Sunday August 8, Matinee: 4–7 p.m.
GRAFITTI’S BAR & GRILL
170 Baldwin Ave., Kensington Market
pwyc
(http://www.graffitisbarandgrill.com)




GREG QUILL & THE USUAL SUSPECTS
Wednesday July 14, 8 p.m.
AFTER HOURS IN THE VILLAGE CONCERT SERIES
4 & 20 Blackbirds Bakery & Café
Fanshawe Pioneer Village
1424 Clarke Rd.
London, Ontario
(http://www.knockgrafton.com/afterhours.html)




GREG QUILL & THE USUAL SUSPECTS
Saturday May 29, 9 p.m.
MERCHANT MacLIAM
6A Princess St
Kingston, Ontario
(www.whatsonkingston.com)




GREG QUILL & THE USUAL SUSPECTS
Thursday May 13, 9 p.m.
CORKTOWN
175 Young Street, Hamilton
with special guest
Sam See direct from Australia!
(www.samseemusic.com)
Tickets: $5.00
Phone: 905.523.1683, 905.572.9242
(www.doublehell.com)


GREG QUILL & THE USUAL SUSPECTS
(Dennis Pinkorn on bass,
Denis Keldie on accordion and mandolin)
Saturday March 27, 8.30 p.m.
Two shows
FREE TIMES CAFE
320 College St., Toronto
Tel: 416.967.1078
(http://www.thefreetimescafe.com)
Tickets: $10
Pre-show dinner reservations recommended


GREG QUILL & THE USUAL SUSPECTS
Thursday March 11, 9 p.m.
LEE'S PALACE
529 Bloor St. W., Toronto
Opening for Paul Kelly
Tickets:  $18.50 / Ticketmaster
(http://www.leespalace.com/coming.php3)


GREG QUILL & THE USUAL SUSPECTS
Thursday March 4, 8 p.m.
CORKTOWN
175 Young Street, Hamilton
with special guests
Swamperella and Darryl Gould
Tickets: $6.00
Phone: 905.523.1683, 905.572.9242
(http://www.doublehell.com)





Thursday Feb. 19, 9 p.m.
Gary Topp @ Toppnotch Presents:
Hometown Country Jubilee
Featuring The Bebop Cowboys, Atomic 7,
Greg Quill, and The Jeremiahs
LULA LOUNGE
1585 Dundas St. W @ Dufferin
Tickets $10 @ the door
For dinner reservations at 7 p.m.,
call 416.588.0307


Saturday Jan. 31, 9 p.m.
Winterfolk Concert:
Greg Quill & The Usual Suspects
Free Times Café
320 College St.
416.967.1078
Ticket information: www.winterfolk.com


Saturday Jan. 31, 1 p.m.
Winterfolk Workshop:
Music & The Media
Greg Quill, host
Thymeless Bar & Grill
355 College St.
416.712.2800
Ticket information: www.winterfolk.com


Greg Quill
with The Usual Suspects
• Dennis Pinhorn (bass)
• Mitchell Lewis (guitars)
Every Second Tuesday
Next Shows: January 13 and 27
9 p.m. - midnight
GRAFFITI'S BAR & GRILL
170 Baldwin St.,
Kensington Market
$5.00 At The Door
AND KEEP AN EYE ON OUR CITYGIGS PAGE:
www.citygigs.com/listings.cfm/eventID/28424/city/2


2003 Events

Greg Quill (solo)
Winterfolk II Preview Concert,
Friday Dec. 12, 7:30 p.m.,
Silver Dollar Room,
486 Spadina Ave. at College,
with David Bradstreet, Lynn Harrison,
Wendell Ferguson, Norm Hacking
and Brian Gladstone.
$8 @ the door.


Greg Quill
with The Usual Suspects
• Dennis Pinhorn (bass)
• Mitchell Lewis (guitars)
Every Second Tuesday
Next Shows: December 2, 16, 30
9 p.m. - midnight
GRAFFITI'S BAR & GRILL
170 Baldwin St.,
Kensington Market
$5.00 At The Door
AND KEEP AN EYE ON OUR CITYGIGS PAGE:
www.citygigs.com/listings.cfm/eventID/28424/city/2