Jane’s Party

Sunday, october 6th

martindale stage: 2:30 - 3:15pm

It all traces back to a shared townhouse garage in Toronto’s North York neighbourhood. Four friends – all university students at the time – compiled a few instruments, a random collection of microphones, and some makeshift studio gear to bring a handful of original songs to life with no set agenda or grand ambition. The resulting recordings, however, humble as they may be, glowed with an obvious spark that set Jane’s Party on a course from campus cover band to revered indie rock outfit with a still-growing pile of achievements and accolades propelling their rise.

“The thing that got us started is the same thing that keeps us going: songs that we want to get out into the world,” shares drummer Zach Sutton, and since formally releasing those first 10 songs as The Garage Sessions LP in 2009, he and his bandmates – Jeff Giles (keys/guitar/vocals), Tom Ionescu (guitar/vocals), and Devon Richardson (bass/vocals) – have made impressive strides on their shared mission.