Friends! After 4 years of hunkering down and hankering honks, this summer has blessed us with the tour that young freaky fiddle bands fantasize about from the day of inception. We'll be bombing through our dream collection of Canadian Festivals before heading back across the Atlantic for a string of Scandinavian festivals, BUT FIRST, we'll be ecstatically sharing our new tunes with YOU our wonderful hometown of Toronto.

We'll be teaming up this summer with some new amazing musical forces, both in the band and on the bill, and this Toronto party will be one we shan't soon forget!

Gary Topp Presents:

the homecoming show of JARON FREEMAN-FOX & THE OPPOSITE OF EVERYTHING's Canadiantithesis Tour

with Fat As Fuck

fatasfuck.bandcamp.com/

and The Boxcar Boys

www.theboxcarboys.ca

July 30th, 9pm

The Rivoli

$15

JARON FREEMAN-FOX & THE OPPOSITE OF EVERYTHING

Jaron Freeman-Fox - viol

John Williams - clarinet

Quinn Bachand - guitar/banjo

Dan Stadnicki - drum

Robbie Grunwald - nordcordion

Ian De Souza - bass

If you know any freaky folks from elsewhere in the country who might like this music, please do invite them to our full list of Canadian dates here: https://www.facebook.com/events/696419600425005/?source3&sourcenewsfeedstorytyperegular;

Extraordinary album.veers happily from traditional Indian raga riffs to Celticreels to suave Latin jazz before arriving at wait for it People Are Strange, where the Doors vintage hit is reconfigured into a free-flowing New Orleans jazz jam. - TORONTO STAR

Hard to describe, impossible to categorise, but essential for anyone with a taste for the weird or fanciful in fiddle music. - FOLKWORLD.EU

"His flawless playing will make you want to dance, it will put you into a deep trance, it might even make you feel like splitting at the seams. The small audience at the bar that night was transported to a whole range of cultures through Jarons ability to shift entirely from one style of folk to the next." - INDIE MUSIC MACHINE

Freeman-Fox is an iconoclast. The style of the band almost defies description, incorporating Celtic/bluegrass/East Indian/classical/jazz/klezmer. they can really get out there and party down, like a fiddling Frank Zappa or Sun Ra and his Arkestra, changing pace and styles on a dime but always with consummate musicality" - PENGUIN EGGS

The late, great boundary-pushing violinist Oliver Schroer is no longer with us. Ashley MacIsaac went right off his rocker long ago. And so here comes st-hot fiddle fiend Freeman-Fox who indeed was mentored by Schroer to extract smoke from his bow while tearing through genres from Yiddish, Irish, Acadian, Roma and ragtime to anything else he finds in his travels, including various shades of jazz and prog rock and even some Mongolian throat singing for good measure." - THE WATERLOO RECORD