Dave Borins : Featured Artist

DAVE BORINS: ACOUSTIC ROCKER, INVENTIVE SONGWRITER,
DEADLY PERFORMER, AND A MAN ON THE MOVE!

Check out http://daveborins.com/ for music and more info!

A year or so ago, Tom Power, the host of CBC Radio 2's Deep Roots programme said: "I got a feeling you'll be hearing a lot more from Dave Borins in the next couple of years."

He’s right, because you ARE going to hear a lot more about a guy who is possibly one of Toronto's most energetic acoustic soul players and performers. Dave Borins is making his move. He started relatively late, because he wasn't in Canada a lot of the time. He was traveling: China, Japan, Indonesia, India, Peru, Nepal — and his passport was his guitar. The ability to play, sing and laugh made friends for him wherever he went — and now it's making friends for him here at home.

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He'd learned the very best way to entertain and influence people as canoe guide in the summers of his youth. Here's a guy who can navigate a river, light a camp fire in the rain, and probably cool out inquisitive or angry bears. After that, wandering around the Himalayas, or exploring ancient Inca trails is easy. He’s probably played well over 300 concerts in the last four years, that sort of experience shows.

There have been two recordings — a full-length one from 2007, Songs of Sense and Colour, and a gutsy EP The Lucky Ones recorded in 2009 — and these records, in turn, spawned no less than half a dozen tours, touching almost every part of Canada. As one arts magazine writer put it: "His voice is the kind you could lean against and trust to lead you home on a long walk from the pub in the night."

2010 was kind to him; Tours in Newfoundland and Alberta. Showcases in Memphis, Nashville and at NXNE in Toronto. A songwriting workshop at Boston’s Berklee School of Music, followed by shows in New York City.

We are excited to have him play along side Lady Hayes, The Sweet Mack, Erez Sussman, Dos Mundos DJ's, DJ Class!ck and Simmer Down on June 5th at Cherry Cola's (200 Bathurst St.) for the With Her Fundraiser event!!