Michael C. Duguay

I begin my final run of shows of the year tonight in Toronto at Michael Cloud Duguay - Solo Piano Peformance at Burdock Piano Fest. I’ll be finishing the year with two more solo piano performances next week at Hotel Wolfe Island on Wednesday and at Jethro’s in Peterborough on Thursday. Closing out the year my cosmic rock group Valleyspeak will be performing at By Divine Right / The Burning Hell / Valleyspeak at Sadleir House on December 30 which is bound to be a stellar show.

Huge thanks to everybody who booked me for gigs, hired me for shows and studio work, brought me on the road, played in my projects, and especially to those who attended shows and supported the work. 2023 has been a banner year and I’m grateful 🖤

Photo by from a couple weeks ago at performing with Steven Lambke

I'll be out east next week fro a run of shows with Steven, Carson, and Daniel . Dartmouth, Berwick, Baie Verte, Souris. All the major stops. See you there.

This Friday on Wolfe Island!

Next week my comrades Joyful Joyful and New Hermitage and I are gathering on Wolfe Island for a week of immersive composition sessions as we develop our ongoing collaborative ensemble project towards destiny. On Friday, March 10 we will be performing both improvised and newly composed collaborative material on saxophone, harp, cello, accordion, guitar, electronics, piano, and voice live at Hotel Wolfe Island for one night only. Doors at 7 show at 8. Tickets available via Hotel website. Stunno poster design by Benjamin Nelson

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada, who recently awarded us a project grant to support all of this activity

last summer at I was walking towards the festival grounds when I heard the most perfect power pop coming from the main stage. the band was the song was ‘snakes & ladders’ and I watched their entire performance side stage, my mind blown by their energy and amazing tunes. They made me feel like a 14 year old at my first punk show again.

The invited me to perform a song for their hotel session series, and when I got to the hotel .whiteley and all of were all there hanging out. I decided to skip the original material and corral all these great folk players into coming up with an arrangement for snakes & ladders on the fly. thanks to the hotel and sean turrell for making the vid, and to tough age for being the best band in canada.

Michael C. Duguay – Snakes & Ladders (One Shot) — The Hotel Sessions "Snakes & Ladders" by Tough Age – https://mintrecs.com/artist/tough-agePerformed by Michael C. DuguayWith Le Volume, The Mill Rights, Jason Mercer and Hugh ...

xoxoxox Steven Lambke

Shout out to Michael C. Duguay for joining me on tour this fall opening for Carson McHone and The Outfit, and for elevating the tunes with the bellows and buttons (accordion and concertina) and a generous and adventurous musical sensibility. Thank you Michael!

This is another photo by Colin Medley from the final night of tour, at Niagara Artists Centre (NAC)

A quick popcorn snack before the drive home.

I will be in Newfoundland next week!

So excited to have Joey O'Neil join us next week on Wolfe Island and in Peterborough!

8mm frame taken by the wonderful Laura La France (bigmimicproductions.com) at a backyard show in Edmonton last summer.

Toronto! I’m at the cameron house tonight opening for Analogues of May album release. Back room, doors at 9, I’m on at 9:20

I am really deeply grateful to have been awarded a project grant from .council to support an ongoing recording project that I started this summer in PEI with a crew of my favourite artists. the project itself has been such a trip and for it to be recognized in this way is v meaningful; feeling really humbled to be able to do what I do (and to be able to keep doing it). 📸

I'm looking forward to some rare & unusual solo performances in September, my favourite month. Catch me at:
Hotel Wolfe Island Thursday 15 w/ Eliza Niemi and Nathan Lawr

The Cameron House Toronto Friday 16 Analogues of May album release

BLUMartini Saturday 24 Erika Lamon Album release

Jethro’s Bar + Stage Friday 30 w/ Stephen Stanley , Ron Hawkins, and Chris Brown

Next Friday in Toronto at The Baby G with the almighty Joyful Joyful and Avalon Tassonyi
Info and Tickets:
https://fb.me/e/1XUVSwlYC

I have COVID. Ottawa tomorrow is cancelled, Montreal and Wolfe island will happen without us. peace.

Thanks to First Crush Promotion for having me on their show and promoing next weeks ottawa concert!

I am so pleased to be included in this final round of lineup announcements and to finally share that I’ll be at this year’s SappyFest presenting a unique, collaborative performance alongside my dear friends and favourite artists Joyful Joyful and New Hermitage . Not unlike mine and NH’s collaborative, improvisational performance last October in Halifax, we will be forming a one-of-a-kind ensemble and creating new, spontaneous arrangements of my songs and poems featuring New Hermitage’s ambient chamber and Joyful Joyful’s vocal drone experimentations. To call this a dream come tru is an understatement. I’m deeply grateful to be invited back in to this festival and community after a long absence; the opportunity to use this space to expirement with such dear friends and brilliant artists is very meaningful. I am also playing with a whole bunch of other bands! Stay tuned!

Tickets are now available for August concerts in Montreal, Ottawa, Hamilton, and Toronto! Get them here https://linktr.ee/michaelcduguay

See you soon! 📸 by Jamie Kronick

🧡TOUR DATES! I’m over the moon excited for this run of shows, and to be performing with such an amazing group of musicians - Liam Cole, Andrew Mackelvie, Yolande Laroche, Greggory Clark, and Julien Dussault - and sharing the dates with some of my favourite bands in the world at some wonderful venues. Tickets go on sale next week for Ottawa, Montreal, Wolfe Island, Toronto, and Hamilton. We finish the run in my hometown Peterborough with two days of performances TBA! Such a gift to be able to do this thing in places like these with folks like this! can’t wait to see y’all 🖤 beauty poster by my guy

Live with a 7 piece band next Friday on the Island!
https://fb.me/e/1xDKXZcJM

Two dates with Steven Lambke in late June! Toronto/Wolfe Island.