

January-September 2025*8 themed shows
 144 songs*January 24
 February 21
 March 21
 May 16
 June 20
 July 18
 August 15
 September 19*Southern Cross Lounge, Tranzac Club
 292 Brunswick Ave
 Toronto, Canada7pm-9pm
 2 sets
 $20*with:Andrew Downing - acoustic bass
 Craig Harley - piano, accordion
 Maggie Keogh - vocal
 Jean Martin - drums
 Justin Orok - guitar
 John Southworth - vocal, guitar, piano& guests:Ben Rositan, Kevin Turcotte, Aline Homzy, Patrick O'Reilly, Ryan Driver, Beth Silver*SPHERE I
 January 24
 RIVERING, RAILROADIAN TYPESet:Old-fashioned rivers of rhyme
 River of tears in everyone
 Idle idol
 Down in the under
 Nocturnal mailman
 Blue sleeves
 Miracle in the night
 Falling in love with the old world again
 Tiny Tim
 Lost child of the railroad
 Oona
 Sail the rails railroad sailor
 Obscurantism
 Always on the river
 Last passenger pigeon of Ohio
 River city girl
 Pineapple shoes
 Sedona Arizona
 Now that I'm a railroad boy*SPHERE II
 February 21
 ONE WINTER ROSESet:Gentle giant
 The horse that swam across the sea
 Moon on fire
 Hey I got news for you
 No inner mission
 You are what you dream
 One winter rose
 Holy mackerel
 Happy birthday mister president
 The sea or the ocean
 Niagara Falls is not Niagara Falls
 Second childhood
 Zulou
 Angel landing
 Womb of time
 The kiss
 Stand by your masses*SPHERE III
 March 21
 EGG-SPIRITUS EQUINOXSet:Nip it in the bud
 Money doesn't grow on trees
 Ombudswoman
 First of May
 Songs in the land
 Farma pharma farma
 So glad it's finally spring
 Just before dawn
 The Luddite
 Morbid fecundity
 Flood of feminine
 Pumpkins
 Love's magic (feat. Maggie Keogh)
 White peasant wine
 Applecart
 Irish tree alphabet
 Only a bunny*SPHERE IV
 May 16
 LOVE SONGS 96-23Set:Make the time for your girl
 Seashells and bluebells
 You led me to believe
 Lucid love
 I loved my girl
 Trust the voice of love
 Vow
 Eyes are the flowers
 Heroes of Eros
 Vertigo
 Life is unbelievable
 Butterfly shadow
 A day doesn’t go by
 Girl on the moon
 Tender mountain eyes
 Loving you
 I want you to take photos of me crying*SPHERE V
 June 20
 SINGALONG with SUBVERSIONSet:Small country airport
 Weird woman
 We can live life
 Hollandaise
 Walk with me
 Adopt a highway
 The champagne lady
 Hunger march
 Help yourself to diamonds
 Fiddler crossed the border
 Simple simple boy
 Lone brave spirit
 Buffalo City Hall
 My people (feat. Ryan Driver)
 The little dolphins of Lake Superior
 Rainbowin'
 I’m a bell
 Spies on the beach*SPHERE VI
 July 18
 CELESTIAL VISITATIONSet:Constantinople
 Poor of my city
 Half way up the mountain
 Folk art cathedral
 Pure song of the children
 When the angel
 Heaven was always here
 Paint your little pebbles
 Balloons
 Van Leer
 Ode to the morning sky
 Angel landing (feat. Ryan Driver)
 Burning of the Notre Dame
 You found your flower
 The Pillowmaker
 Ghostflower
 My Poor suburbans
 Freak of Nature
 Seven Wonders*SPHERE VII
 August 15
 PEACOCK ISLAND
 or late summer melancholiaSet:General store
 Bygones be bygones
 Idiot village
 The loneliness of the long distance singer songwriter
 Sadness came back
 Time to unwind
 Red velvet curtains
 Baby water lily
 Barefoot college
 Human cry
 New forest horses
 Wondering what went wrong
 Women are disappearing
 Love me love my dog (by Peter Shelley)
 Sunday brunch buffet*SPHERE VIII
 September 19
 FALL SLOW DANCESet:Fall colored girl
 Field town morris
 Totem pole telephone pole
 Bag lady of Hawaii
 If you're on to the moon
 Beautiful spirits
 This Halloween i go as me
 Last place on earth
 Claire Clairmont
 Public mourner
 Community service
 River rations
 Town of the castle
 Pumpkins
 Day of the dead
 Old soul
 Banff springs hotel*no song played twice in these spheres


Previous ShowsSeptember 28, 2024 - What now now what, Guelph, CANADAMay 4, 2024 - "secret house concert" with Ryan Driver, Toronto, CANADAMarch 21-22, 2024 - Helliconian Hall, Toronto, CANADA (Toronto Songs / Confluence Concerts)November 8, 2023 - Hotel Wolfe Island, CANADAMay 25, 2023 - West End Phoenix Festival, Tranzac Main Hall, Toronto, CANADAMay 21, 2023 - Hotel Wolfe Island, Wolfe Island, CANADAMay 20, 2023 - URSA, Montreal, CANADAMay 13, 2023 - Golden Bus, Guelph, CANADADecember 16, 2022 - Barnyard Christmas Singalong, Tranzac, Toronto, CANADAAugust 13, 2022 - Ryan Driver Backyard Event, Toronto, CANADAJuly 15, 2022 - with Alex Lukashevsky, Bampot Bohemian House, Toronto, CANADAMarch 11, 2022 - premiere of Rialto, Paradise Theater, Toronto, CANADAApril 2-4, 2020 - cancelled
 with Art of Time Ensemble, Enwave Theater, Toronto, CANADADecember 8, 2019 - The Tin, Coventry, UKDecember 6, 2019 - The Waiting Room, London, UKDecember 4, 2019 - Nachtasyl, Hamburg, GERMANYDecember 3, 2019 - Monarch, Berlin, GERMANYDecember 1, 2019 - Trafo, Jena, GERMANYNovember 29, 2019 - Blue Bird Festival, Vienna, AUSTRIANovember 2, 2019, Hamilton Public Library, Hamilton, CANADAAugust 4, 2019 - Festival of the Sound, Parry Sound, CANADAJuly 25, 2019 - Toronto Summer Music Festival with Art of Time Ensemble, Koerner Hall, Toronto, CANADAJuly 19, 2019 - private concert, Ottawa, CANADAJuly 14, 2019 - Hillside Festival, CANADAJuly 6, 2019 - Stratford Festival with Art of Time Ensemble, Stratford, CANADAMay 4, 2019 - Imperial Pub Backroom, Toronto, CANADAApril 12, 2019 - KAZOO Fest, Guelph, CANADAFebruary 21-23 2019 - performing at Art of Time Ensemble 20th Anniversary Concert, Enwave Theater, Toronto, CANADADecember 22, 2018 - performing with Fucked Up at Toronto Overdose Prevention Society Benefit, Opera House, Toronto, CANADAOctober 19, 2018 - performing with Fucked Up, Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto, CANADASeptember 22, 2018 - performing with Hayden & others at Dave Bidini book release, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, CANADAMarch 13, 2018 - Easterween at MA Scene Nationale, Montbeliard, FRANCEFebruary 21, 2018 - Creative Vision/Accessing & Heightening; Ignite Workshop/ARTSCAPE (lecture talk) Toronto, CANADANovember 9, 2017 - reading original prose-poem selections for Andrew Downing's Otterville, Canadian Music Center, Toronto, CANADAAugust 18-19, 2017 - Summer's End Folk Festival, Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, CANADAApril 29, 2017 - The Bicycle Cafe, Flesherton, Ontario, CANADAApril 7, 2017 - Kazoo Fest, Guelph, Ontario, CANADANovember 24, 2016 - Cafe OTO, London, UKNovember 19, 2016 - Stadtkonzerte, Luzurne, SWITZERLANDNovember 18, 2016 - Karlstorbanof, Heidelberg, GERMANYNovember 17, 2016 - Cafe Hochberg, Hamburg, GERMANYNovember 16, 2016 - Die Wohngemelnschaft, Cologne, GERMANYNovember 15, 2016 - Privatclub, Berlin, GERMANYOctober 28, 2016 - Burdock Music Hall, Toronto, CANADANovember 12, 2015 - BAM, Paris, FRANCENovember 10, 2015 - MA Scene Nationale, Montbeliard, FRANCENovember 9, 2015 - Brotfabrik, Frankfurt, GERMANYNovember 8, 2015 - Private concert, Munich, GERMANYNovember 7, 2015 - Beatpol, Dresden, GERMANYNovember 6, 2015 - Rolling Stone Weekender, Weissenhauser Strand, GERMANYNovember 5, 2015 - NaTo, Leipzig, GERMANYOctober 14, 2015 - Burdock Music Hall, Toronto, CANADAApil 2, 2015 - Moment's Club live on Radio Bremen, Bremen, GERMANYMarch 30, 2015 - Gruner Salon, Berlin, GERMANYMarch 25, 2015 - The Servant's Quarters, London, UKMarch 23, 2015 - The Tin, Coventry, UKFebruary 27-28, 2015 - Lou Reed Tribute/Art of Time Ensemble, Enwave Theatre, Toronto, CANADAFebruary 14, 2015 - Easterween, Western Front, Vancouver, CANADAFebruary 13, 2015 - Yukon Film Festival, Whitehorse, CANADA
VideographyYou found your flower 2025Down in the under 2023Pure song of the children 2019No inner mission 2019Champion of love 2016Second childhood 2016Weird woman 2015Loving you 2015Ode to the morning sky 2014Hey I got news for you 2014Nip it in the bud 2012First of May 2009Pineapple shoes 2007Life is unbelievable 2007Simple simple boy 2005Sunday brunch buffet 2002Now that I'm a railroad boy 1997Entertaining the troops 1995
FilmographyRialto 2022
thank you for the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Toronto Arts Council and the Chalmers Family Fund administered by Ontario Arts Council