This ticket is for one admission to the King Cardiac & Clerel concert
Rooftop Revue is a live music series on a secret rooftop in The Junction (Keele and Dundas), Toronto, ON. We feature emerging and established artists from both Toronto, across Canada, and Worldwide. The series is BYOB and there are only 35 seats per show. As the shows take place at a private residence, the exact address will appear on the ticket confirmation page, and further details will be emailed to you two days before the show.
KING CARDIAC
The genre bending ensemble features singer-songwriter and guitarist Gabriel DeSantis uniting with Toronto heavyweights; Paul Metcalfe, Sam Petite, Tom Richards, Lowell Whitty and Alan Zemaitis to explore matters that rule the heart with a unique blend of R&B Folk.
For Bloodlines, the band settled into "The Rooster Studio” run by Don Kerr (Bahamas, Ron Sexsmith) who engineered and co-produced the record along with DeSantis. It was mastered by Grammy nominee and Juno and Polaris Prize winner, Philip Shaw Bova (Feist, LidoPimienta, Andy Shauf).
The 9 tracks offer cinematic vignettes of DeSantis’ time living overseas on a narrowboat on the London canals and his adventures touring his solo set throughout Europe. Tones vary widely between songs; from noir meanderings through the back alleys of Camden on “Stale Melodies” to the fervent and relentless horn lines that punctuate a psychedelic voyage on “Amsterdam” to the surprisingly vulnerable and sincere meditations on ancestry, inheritance and the human experience on the title track “Bloodlines.”
CLEREL
Clerel is a soul singer and songwriter born in Douala, Cameroon, and based in Montreal. Raised on Makossa and French chanson, he found his way to soul music through a college trip to the Stax Museum in Memphis and built a voice around everything in between. He has performed at SXSW, the Montreal Jazz Festival, and on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
"Listening to Clerel is not hard." — Austin Chronicle