Live Music: Bill Usher & The Space Heaters at the Dream Cafe

Event Dates:
  • Mon • October 21, 2024 • 8:00 PM - 10:30 PM
  • Event Cost: $35.00

Opening the concert with an acid flashback to his hippie days playing the bars of Toronto’s Yonge Street, Bill Usher teasingly asks us to refer to him not as a senior but, as an ‘Esteemed Elder’ noting that “seniors get a bad rap for forgetting stuff.” It’s true, he says, but in defence, he riffs, “All my life I’ve been stuffing more and more wisdom into this brain and as I take in more and more stuff in the front end … stuff has just gotta drop out the back end to make room, right?”

And then they’re off. For the rest of the evening, four-time Juno Award winner Bill Usher and his excellent bandmates Paul Pigat, Holly Hyatt and Steve Briggs groove their way through a bunch of songs that lyrically recall significant events of Usher’s up-and-down journey toward the light of love and understanding.