The Elton Joan Band Tribute to Elton John Live at the Linsmore!
Saturday September 29th, we cannot wait to welcome for the very first time, The Elton Joan Band and their Tribute to the Legendary Elton John Live at the Linsmore Tavern (1298 Danforth Ave)! We have never had an Elton John Tribute perform at the Linsmore, so we are extremely excited to welcome this all-female tribute to Sir Elton! Featuring some of Canada's best musicians including Joan Marshall !! , We are in for an extremely fun night! There will be two sets of Elton John and a 3rd set which will consist of all of your favorite piano driven ROCK , POP and SOUL artists from the 1970s such as Billy Joel , Fleetwood Mac, Supertramp, Journey, Burton Cummings, Billy Preston, Carole King , Joe Cocker and so much more!
Joan Marshall's LOVE of great piano music inspired her to create THE ELTON JOAN BAND , Canada's Unique all female Tip-Of-The-Hat to the timeless tunes of Sir Elton John . She started playing by ear at 4 years of age ... studied Classical Piano through the Royal Conservatory of Music as well as Majoring in Keyboard and Percussion Studies at the world renowned Music Program at Humber Jazz College in Toronto..
Joan has played many genres of music (including Jazz, Funk and POP-Rock and with many gifted musicians She has composed music for IBM, CIBC, RBC as well as scored music for Toronto Workshop Theatre Productions .Joan also enjoys playing solo piano gigs and has performed at venues including the prestigious McMichael Art Gallery in Kleinberg, Ontario , and at the Markham Flato Theatre .As well, Joan has worked with and performed on City TV Breakfast Television with Actor and Musician Dorian Harewood . In 2017 Joan was honoured to accept the position of Music & Choir Director for Fundraising Events for the Meta Centre in Toronto.
The show is going to start at 9:30pm, there will be a $5 cover at the door!