Tranzac Club

Come hear the songs and poems of MAX LAYTON and experience the musical wizardry of BOB COHEN, ED ROTH and MARY HANSON. There's beer on tap and no cover but please PWYC..This month our special guests will be SABRINA GOMES, PAT CONNORS, and NORMAN ALLAN

SABRINA GOMES is a singer-songwriter from Brampton, ON. A young emerging artist, Sabrina is involved in the many performances this city has to offer and is proud to represent her hometown and its passionate local artists. She currently has her first album in the works. !

PAT CONNORS is a Toronto-based poet whose first chapbook, “Scarborough Songs,” was published by Lyricalmyrical Press in 2013. His second chapbook with Lyricalmyrical, “Part-Time Contemplative,” was published in 2016 while the 18 poems he contributed to “Bottom of the Wine Jar” was published by SandCrab Books in 2017. A manager of the Toronto chapter of 100,000 Poets for Change, Pat’s work has appeared in numerous literary magazines and has recently been accepted for publication by Blue Collar Poetry, an anthology of Canadian poets which will be released this spring.

NORMAN ALLAN does four things: first he was a scientist searching for the mind; then he was a writer; then he was a healer - (so now then twice a “doctor”) then art and everything at once . MAX LAYTON'S most recent CD, TRUE THE NORTH, is an album of Max's original songs entirely devoted to Canadian stories and themes. About Max's previous album, LEONARD COHEN said: "This is a terrific record! Can't praise it highly enough!" Max also reads from LIKE, his latest book of poems. Dennis
Lee called Max’s first book of poetry “a genuine pleasure to read” while, according to Joe Rosenblatt, Max “is the wittiest and most experientially sublime poet around in Canadian poetry!” More about Max at www.maxlayton.com

BOB COHEN began his career as a professional musician in 1972 in London, U.K., where he learned his craft in recording studios and on stage. Before moving to Toronto, Bob worked mostly as a guitarist while recording and touring with major artists such as Tim Hardin, André Gagnon, and Jesse Winchester...

ED ROTH is a self-styled “musician” who likes to brag about his “Yorkville roots” and his years in LA. He claims to have worked with Rick James, Raffi and Daniel Lanois and is personally to blame for tons of jingles and TV music. He owns a digital accordion and will play it if provoked. Be warned: His playing only sounds like music.

MARY HANSON arrived in Toronto from Australia in the mid 1980s and debuted her keyboard skills with the Pukka Orchestra at the Bamboo. That's when she fell in with a gang of "Queen street" musicians including Robert Priest, with whom she still plays some thirty years later...