Two Last-Minute Alerts

I have a review up on the Globe & Mail site of Elvis Costello’s show with his passel of Nashville cats, the Sugarcanes, at Massey Hall on Friday. *

And tonight I’m co-hosting the end-of-summer edition of Murder Folk Night at the Board of Directors gallery on 1082 Queen W. I’ve invited Andre Ethier (ex-Deadly Snakes etc), Julie Faught (of The Pining and many other local musical concerns) and Michael McManus (man of mystery - go ahead and Google). As founder and co-host Ryan Kamstra (Tomboyfriend) puts it, “A night of desperate, violent folk music in an art gallery where we make the band. … Song-sheets, murderous weapons, noise makers will be on hand.” Come on out between 7 and 10 pm and get your kumbayayas on.

* Postscript: Sharp Globe readers have already pointed out an error in the review, in saying that Costello became a “first-time” father with the twins he had with third wife Diana Krall. I can’t believe that in my decades as a pretty dedicated Declan McManus devotee, I’d never known that he had a son, Matthew, in his first marriage. (That must have been quite a childhood.) I should have checked that fact. Mea culpa.