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Jonny Dovercourt
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Music presenter, writer, researcher, policy geek, Toronto. Climate change is real. Wavelength Music (co-founder & Artistic/Executive Director), Any Night of the Week (Coach House Books), Toronto Music Advisory Committee, Music Declares Emergency 🇨🇦.
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Jonny Dovercourt @jdovercourt.bsky.social · Jan 14
Hello, Bluesky. For my first post, I'm pleased to share this op-ed I penned for @streetsoftoronto.com on the state of Toronto's small venues & their scrappy survival, looking at the success of the UK's @musicvenuetrust.bsky.social creating new means of support.

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Where Legends Begin: Toronto’s Small Venues and the Future of Live Music
Grassroots live music venues are the lifeblood of local scenes and the crucial incubators for emerging talent
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📣FESTIVAL LINE-UP JUST ANNOUNCED! NEWSLETTER PRESALE NOW LIVE, PUBLIC ON-SALE FRIDAY DEC.12 @ 10AM!📣

Wavelength Music Festival + Conference
March 19-21, 2026 — Toronto
Wavelength @ St. Anne’s
+ AGO + The Baby G + The Garrison + InterAccess + Lula Lounge

Tickets: bit.ly/WMFC2026
December 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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wavelengthmusic.bsky.social
Wavelength Summer Thing is back - by the lake!

This annual celebration returns to SummerSeries in Trillium Park for two full days of FREE live music. Ranging from indie folk to psychedelic electronica to poetic hip-hop, Canadian creativity is on full display.

www.wavelengthmusic.ca/events/festi...
June 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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@wavelengthmusic.bsky.social x Yamaha Canada x Marker Starling = delicious collab combo.

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Yamaha Collaborates - Wavelength Music - Yamaha Collabore
YouTube video by YamahaCanadaMusic
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March 27, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Wavelength Winter Fest was a celebration to remember. Thank you all for joining us in marking our 25th year!

To commemorate this fantastic event, we have put together a zine reminiscent of our early days: bit.ly/WF25zine

We cannot wait to see what the next 25 years will bring 🎉🎉🎉
March 14, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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We were seriously stunned by the transformation St. Anne’s Parish went through for Winter Fest.

Thank you to the visual artists who put so much love and creativity into our space:

Anthony Piazza
General Chaos Visuals with the Liquid Crystal Display
Roxanne Ignatius
Stephanie Avery

📸Green Yang
March 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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I shared some memories of the @wavelengthmusic.bsky.social Winter Festival over the last 25 years for @exclaimdotca.bsky.social

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"A Mischievous Atmosphere of Frivolity": A 25-Year History of Wavelength Winter Festival │ Exclaim!
Founded in 2000, Toronto concert series Wavelength is celebrating two and a half decades this weekend
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February 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Feb 21st of #BHM

Making space: Jackie Shane and Toronto's R&B microscenes

via Tobin Ng

h/t #djDeniseBenson @jdovercourt.bsky.social @coachhousebooks.bsky.social

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Making space: Jackie Shane and Toronto's R&B microscenes
SOCI 4850D Final project
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February 21, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Tune in to Big City Small World tomorrow (Saturday Feb 22) at 3:05pm to hear @itsmepagliacci.bsky.social and @jdovercourt.bsky.social chat about Wavelength Winter Fest!

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Big City, Small World with Errol Nazareth | Live Radio | CBC Listen
Big City, Small World is your connection to the vibrant and multicultural music created in Toronto. Hosted by Errol Nazareth, the eclectic show mines the city's music scene to find the bright lights o...
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February 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky
February 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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So the Wavelength Winter Festival starts on Feb. 27, just 10 days away… but that’s not what I’m here to talk about today! Feb. 27 is ALSO now Election Day here in Ontario. ....

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Ontario Votes… Music Votes Ontario — Jonny Dovercourt
 So the Wavelength Winter Festival starts on Feb. 27, just 10 days away… but that’s not what I’m here to talk about today! Feb. 27 is ALSO now Election Day here in Ontario. The last time a prov...
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February 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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I sincerely hope this costs Ford the election. Never forget, criminal Conservative grifters protect each other.

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Before tariffs, Ford says he was ‘100% happy’ Trump won U.S. election in hot mic comments | Globalnews.ca
Speaking to a small group of people at his local campaign headquarters, Ford appeared to explain his initial admiration for President Trump in a moment caught on hot mic.
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February 5, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it?
Elon Musk tweet: We spent the wekend feeding USAID
February 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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1/ Trump’s presidency should be a wake-up call for Canadians.

His chaotic leadership is just one symptom of a deeper problem—an outdated winner-take-all electoral system.

Let’s not assume we’re immune. 🧵
February 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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I cannot wait for this. #TeamSecUnit
thespaceshipper.com The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · Feb 5
There is good news.

Like the fact that AppleTV+ 👍 is producing yet another ambitious sci-fi show, and that it is an adaptation of the beloved series The Murderbot Diaries👍.

Filming started a year ago, so it could be released by 2026.

@thebrainofchris.bsky.social tells us about it here:
Will the Apple TV+ Adaptation Get The Murderbot Diaries Right?
Do Martha Wells’ books suit a prestige TV series starring Alexander Skarsgård as the genderless, autistic-coded Murderbot?
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February 5, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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Call for musicians! The @musicvotesontario.bsky.social coalition is looking for musicians to participate in three actions coming up the following three Saturday in ridings around Toronto. Also looking for someone to assist with doing sound. 🎶 🗳️ 🔊

Sigh up here: bit.ly/musicvotesONcall
February 4, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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fairvote.ca
🚨 BREAKING: 68% of Canadians want to make every vote count! 🚨

A new poll confirms overwhelming support for proportional representation. Will the next Liberal leader listen?

📢 Make your voice heard! Tag your MP, share this post & demand action!

Read more here: www.fairvote.ca/03/02/2025/n...
A data visualization graphic titled "Which voters back proportional representation?" shows the results of a national poll conducted by EKOS Research. A large circular chart indicates that 68% of Canadians support proportional representation, while smaller charts display support levels by party: 72% of Liberal voters, 54% of Conservative voters, 83% of NDP voters, 87% of Green voters, 74% of Bloc voters, and 77% of PPC voters. The chart uses green for support, red for opposition, and gray for "don't know." The EKOS logo appears in the bottom left, and the website www.fairvote.ca/prpoll2025 is displayed at the bottom.
February 3, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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February 4, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Going to tell Trump this is Canada’s Fentanyl Czar.
A photograph of Bonhomme, the official representative of the Québec Winter Carnival. He is a big white snowman wearing a red tuque.
February 3, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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He blinked.
2 days ago Donald demanded our nationhood as the price of peace.
Then we hit with $125bil in counter tariffs and pulled American products off the shelf.
So now he settles for a fentanyl czar.
Canada shows the world how to stand up.
But this is ain't over.
Don't drop your guard.
February 3, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Support Canadian alternatives!
February 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Worth a read.
billybragg.bsky.social Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · Feb 2
Looks like the MAGA have made the same mistake as Brexit voters in the UK and voted to put tariffs on themsleves in the foolish assumption that it makes them look strong. Have a read of this insightful analysis of why Trump's attempt to bully America's neighbours will backfire badly
February 2, 2025 at 8:48 PM
jdovercourt.bsky.social
This… is a really good idea. 🇨🇦🔬
gs314.bsky.social Gary Swergold MD, PhD @gs314.bsky.social · Jan 31
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If I were Canadian PM I would immediately:

1. Create a new $15B science fund

2. Offer any credentialed US scientist funding for lab startup and replacement of NIH grants if they move to Canada

3. Immediate permanent residency

4. Citizenship after 2 years

Overnight a science superpower
February 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Just pledged. Seems like the right thing today on this strange and auspicious February 1st.
charlieangus104.bsky.social Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · Jan 31
Today we launched the Pledge for Canada.
We have voices from across the political, cultural, labour, Indigenous spectrum.
We are building a movement to maintain pressure on our leaders not to sell out our nation or our values.
Please sign and join the movement.
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Pledge for Canada | Engagement pour le Canada
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February 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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thespaceshipper.com
I miss Carl Sagan (1934-1996).

From Cosmos to Contact, in books and on screen, his intellectual work has had a profound impact on me.

In these days of embraced anti-intellectualism, his books should be revisited.
“I have a foreboding of America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time–when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all of the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; with our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. And when the dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites now down to 10 seconds or less, lowest-common-denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.” “If it takes a little myth and ritual to get us through a night that seems endless, who among us cannot sympathise and understand? We long to be here for a purpose even though, despite much self-deception, none is evident. The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life’s meaning. We long for our parents to care for us, to forgive us our errors, to save us from our childish mistakes. But knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Our common sense intuitions can be mistaken. Our preferences don’t count. We do not live in a privileged reference frame. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.”
January 30, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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10 years ago WL ran a Pop-Up Gallery for a month on College Street to mark our 15th. It was a Time. Now we’re celebrating our 25th. Time is an illusion (music time doubly so).
wavelengthmusic.bsky.social Wavelength Music @wavelengthmusic.bsky.social · Jan 30
#TBT to the WL Pop-Up Gallery!

10 years ago we took over Huntclub Studios with original art installations, an art gumball machine, and a retrospective poster and photo show.

#OnThisDay in 2015 Ravetapes threw an interactive dance party at the Gallery, with Hamilton experimental duo Allegories.
January 31, 2025 at 1:07 AM