2015-08-08: Eleven 88 Howe’s Party

If you live at 1188 Howe Street, you probably already know that your place of residence is presenting a block party this coming Saturday. If you live in the West End, you may not have known but this information may be of interest to you. If you don't live in the West End but could use an excuse to visit that lovable, walkable, urbanly dense neighbourhood, this could be just what you've been waiting for!

The festivities are divided up between four stages and other ancillary sites offering discounts and freebies. They're trying to bring about a Mr. Rogersian feeling of downright neighbourliness!

As for the performances, well, there are a bucketload! Throughout the event's runtime from 2-8 pm there are a pile of solo performers and small acts bouncing between the small acoustic outdoor stages and the amplified mainstage. The Mint Juleps, Monkeybar, Cowjazz Billionaires, Derek Nyberg, Julia Spitale and Shera Kelly, John Cullen, Jonny Paul, Johnny Scoop, Jordan Lyric, David Shurvell, Anni deGroot, Bad Oldesloe... AND MORE! To that list you can add not only the Creaking Planks, but also our mandolinist Daisy Jones-Locher (with Ludwika LePearl on cello) and Blackbox Squeezebeard (with his new beard the squeeziest it's been in some five years!) performing solo sets sometime within our compressed timeframe of 3-6 pm. There might be multiples! We, uh, we don't know yet when or where we'll be playing, but will update this page when it's finally confirmed.

The poster is by polymaths Jordan Lyric, who in addition to appearing on the bill also appeared in this very blog seven years ago (his comic strip appears at the very bottom). In case we don't manage to get the site updated in time to be useful, for breaking news and last-minute details you can check out the Facebook event for the block party. Cheers! (PS, thanks to the Bike Smut people for having us back for a zany intersection from even further back than Jordan's, opening on short notice for the July 23rd screening at the Rio! It was, well, it was really what it was.)