May 11, 2008

Welcome to the Hogtown Syncopators website, now updated by me, Mike Daley, electric guitarist in the group. I'll try to keep this page current with news, Rex lineups, and so on.

We're still doing Fridays at the Rex 4-6. Pay-what-you-can cover. This Friday it's the four-piece Hogtowns, just missing Drew. So expect a guitar extravaganza. Or a guitarvaganza.

We're now available on the iTunes music store for instant download. You can buy individual songs for 99 cents each or our whole 2007 album for $9.99. Just open the iTunes music store in your iTunes program and search for our name. Which is Hogtown Syncopators (just copy and paste it!).

That's all I've got. See you at the Rex!

May 2 , 2007

Just added a whole bunch of new dates on the live page...so check it out and mark your calendars!

March 2, 2007

Terrra Hazelton in the Toronto Star!
Read the article on the Star's site here or click on Terra's picture (left) for a plain text version.

January 2, 2007
Hogtown. Syncopators.

It's been a long old time since I set fingers to keyboard and lovingly constructed a Hogtown Syncopators-type email to you good folks, and I'd like to claim that I've been in a Turkish prison, the kind without internet access. But that would be erroneous, and also incorrect. The mundane truth is that I've had some sort of formatting problem with the mailing list, which I have only now gotten around to correcting, or de-erroneousing.
You may have thought that the Hogs were on ice, and in a way that was true. Between Terra's European vacation and Drew's Vinyl Cafe tour with the Bebop Cowboys, this band was relatively quiet through the fall. We did continue to play Friday afternoons at the Rex Hotel with various substitute musicians, but this band is really a band and we are now performing again with the full original recipe.

md

--
Mike Daley
http://mikedaley.net

March 30, 2006

from the desk of Hogtowner Mike Daley..
Thawing Five Frozen Hogs

Hey all.
It's the end of the month, which means it's time to avoid my landlord, and also to jot off a Hogtown Syncopators type email. Hogtown Syncopators, you say. Isn't that the traditional jazz quintet that I heard somewhere or other, and distractedly wrote down my email? My dear, they were good. I really have to check them out again. Especially that Mike Daley character. He's something special.
Well you can, puppy. Feast yer eyes.

News March 27, 2006

So hey, the band was recently mentioned in an online magazine called Gadzooks, and our picture is there too...check it out!

News March 8, 2006

Out here on the Daley family farm, affectionately known in these parts as "Parkdale Acres," the chicken are clucking just a little bit louder. The cows are clear-eyed and buoyant, and the pigs are positively sparkling. Why, mama, why?

Because Terra and Drew are back, that's why. They were gone. They were in Mexico, in fact, and they're back after just over a month and a half. This means that the Hogtowns are back too, as soon as today, which is Wednesday. At Graffiti's, that's where.

Graffiti's, the charming little bistro at the corner of Kensington and Baldwin in Kensington Market is the place where you can hear our close farmony ringing out once again. From 6 to 8:30, that's when.

But there's more. As soon as April 8, you can catch us at Gate 403, which coincidentally is located at 403 Roncesvalles. And then on April 29, doing the matinee at Healey's.

But soft! Is Bessie lactating a little more than usual? Do I detect a surfeit of eggs? Could it be that jazz music DOES in fact increase production in farm animals, as is claimed in the overlooked 1932 Boswell Sisters film Close Farm-ony?

Only those intrepid music lovers who venture out to our gigs know for sure. Bring your own livestock.

md

a bientot
md

your faithful servant,
md

thanks
md"

And please do have a look at the homepage and the photos page for a couple of really beautiful photographs of the band.

News September 27, 2005

(from the official 'Hogtowners' newsletter)

Hello.
More news about your favourite hot jazz/swing/jump group from Toronto. The big news is that our web page is up at www.hogtownsyncopators.com (but you already know that since you're ,well, here). We're still coming up with a lot of the content, but you can read our scintillating bio and marvel at the retro design skills of Fran Porter, webmistress. Speaking of content, some is in the works. We had our first formal photo shoot yesterday at Terra's place, and I'm excited about the shots that I think we got. They will be all over the new site soon and in the liners for our new CD. Speaking of our new CD, we're booked in early December at the Gas Station on Ward's Island to record our first full-length CD with the legendary Don Kerr. So scratch that stuff I said last time about leaving room in your stockings. Go ahead, fill those stockings to the brim with toe socks or whatever it is that you people give to your loved ones. I will say, however, that a Hogtowns CD makes a great Easter gift. It will fit well in a basket and will sound good as an accompaniment to egg-smashing or chocolate eating or other solemn Christian rites.
But je digress.
What I also want to tell you is that we're doing our last Tuesday night gig at the Rex (Queen W. at University) for a while. That's tonight at 6:30. We'll be back in December, and possibly November. But not October. No, no. Not October. And we are, as always, at Graffiti's in Kensington Market (Baldwin St, specifically) on Wednesdays from 6-9. AND in October we'll be doing Wednesday nights after Graffiti's at Cervejaria at 842 College at Ossington. So there's no excuse not to check out this band. Except if you don't like us. I don't want to know.

md

News September 19, 2005

The Hogtown Syncopators are recording an full length album in early December 2005 at the Gas Station, which is a really cool studio on Ward's Island. Don Kerr will engineer. There's more exciting news, but it's still hush hush at the moment, so check back for updates soon.

And yes, welcome to www.hogtownsyncopators.com the official online home of The Hogtown Syncopators. Hope you enjoy looking around and please do come back again.