Toronto-Ottawa Friday Night Special @ Umi Cafe

This Friday night, we let the open mic-ers start early, at 6PM, then beginning at 7 we feature a 5-band lineup, with 3 Toronto artists meshing with 2 of our local Ottawa favorites!

This will likely rewrite Friday night history yet again at Umi Cafe.

Featuring:

The Dangles (Toronto)

"We are just a simple band. Spawned from Hell or descended from Heaven?"
-the Dangles, the Dangles one Hundred Lie's to win the War

Dangle's - fuzz lookin out; the window. see you in the shadows. cant get you out of my head. no i cant get you out of my head. no i cant get you out of my head. know a can well love, seems that way when kiss'n you . love smiles from my head. think, ill think alittle less. know I love you. id like to carress your thighs, massage your sholders. love give's you every inch of me an tells you how much i love you. daydream'n - this is how much you mean to me. its like the equater, it surrounds me hot around the center. cant get you out of my head. no i cant get you out of my head. know a can well, Darling. Would you like to Dance with me, Cross the ocean or the sea. Hold'n you in my head, i can tell you everything. would you like to Dance with me, across the ocean or the sea. Id love to hold your hands an tell you how much you mean to me

Krystle Rose (from Toronto)

Completely mysterious but promising...

Will (from Toronto)

Will MacDonald-Kramer is a self-taught singer, guitarist, and songwriter. His original music combines beautiful poetry and melodies to create a highly unique and captivating style. His songs are characterized by vocal harmonics, reverbial guitar, and cryptic lyrics.

John Akpata (from Ottawa)

John Akpata is a writer and poet who lives in Ottawa. He first learned to read and write at the age of three. He has written poetry his whole life. After graduating from Carleton University with a degree in English Literature, John Akpata began to live the life of a true poet. He focused all of his energy into writing and performing, and vowed to make a living off of his art.

In 2003 John Akpata was a member of Ottawa's first ever Slam Poetry team, and travelled to Chicago to compete in the National Poetry Slam. He became the Ottawa CBC Poetry Face Off Champion in 2004. Also in 2004, John Akpata placed second in the World Indie Finals at the Canadian Spokenwordlympics - Canada's inaugural international poetry competition. John Akpata is Ottawa's Capital Slam Poetry Champion for 2005, and competed with Ottawa's team at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word 2005 in Vancouver.

Carlos Perez (Ottawa)

The legendary local Venezuelan poet is coming up to his book launch due in a week. He was going to bring out some of the new material from it to the open mic anyways, when he got the invite...