Toronto’s The Mike Legere Band – along with Mike’s locally-based brother Stewart Legere – makes its Carleton début on Saturday, October 19th. Show time is 8 PM and tickets are $25 + HST.
The Mike Legere Band is a 4 piece based out of Toronto, Ontario, made up of Mike Legere (vocals, guitar, synth), Omar Shabbar (bass, synth, back-up vocals, Greg O’Toole (guitar) and Colin McNally (drums). They perform dynamic music that moves between folk, indie rock and alternative genres, and has a strong emphasis on lyrics. They’ve released two albums: Ourselves In Public (2018), and Memory Forming Clouds (2022), as well as the singles Billboard, Love Songs (in fear of dying penniless), I Want To Be Well (2020) and the latest, Forgiveness (2024). Their current focus is on blending visual methods of storytelling with the performance, including the use of projections developed for their multi-media show Estuaries, which débuted at In The Soil Festival in 2023 and became the basis for the relase of the same name.
Stewart Legere is a multidisciplinary artist from Punamu’kwati’jk/Dartmouth. Serving as Artistic Director of The Accidental Mechanics Group and Associate Artistic Director of ZUPPA. His work has been showcased at theatres and festivals across Canada and internationally. He has released two solo albums (Quiet the Station, 2017 and To the Bone: Songs from SPLINTERS, 2021) — as well as numerous singles. He composes sound and music for live performance and film. A passionate collaborator, his work explores the dark corners of vulnerability and intimacy.
He is fascinated with the dismantling of persona and the celebration of performance. He is currently an artist in residence at The Theatre Centre – a live arts incubator in Toronto – where he’s leading the creation of a massive multidisciplinary performance with queer artists from across the country.