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Haha, cross my heart and hope to die, stick a needle in my eye, I swear we will be there...

Hello! If you're looking for some bluegrassy madness to dance to and you're in Guelph or Ottawa, this is your lucky weekend! Thursday night (feb 24) we'll be playing at Jimmy Jazz in Guelph and Friday we'll be at Irene's in Ottawa. For those who haven't caught an Unseen Strangers show yet, here's a couple of youtube videos to check out: and some live recordings here See you soon!

Thanks Edger, we'll look into it. We are now officially confirmed to play Jimmy Jazz on Thursday February 24th. see all you Guelph-ians there!

Oops, mucked that one up, this is actually

Where is this sunday matinee you speak of?

We'll leave the cowbell at home then...

Thanks Jay-Dawg! Sorry about the Jimmy Jazz show, we promise to make it up to you and I'll definitely post on here when we have a confirmed date in Guelph. I love guelph, lived there for 2 years and saw many good shows at Jimmy Jazz, Vinyl and Van Gogh's. We had a great time at that Ottawa show, actually! The crowd was small in numbers, but big on spirit, and seemed to be really into the music. We just love playing bluegrass weather it's to 10 people or 2000, we always want to have fun and put on a good show. We're actually back in Ottawa on February 25th opening for The Avenues at Irene's. As for Hamilton and Guelph, well, we're working on it all the time... Thanks for the kind words everyone!

Hey everyone, these are some new videos from Toronto Jamgrass band "The Unseen Strangers". See you at a show!

Three amazing acts lined up for this. If you like bluegrass music, and you love the thrill of live improvisation, and you want to see a guy who's an absolute ninja on the finger-picked guitar, come check this show out! The Unseen Strangers Smokey Folk Ewan Dobson - 2009 Canadian Fingerstyle Guitar Champion

oops, my bad, correction made. for the record, if i were to make a venue and have rainbow in the title, i would call it the Rainbow Room... I'm very partial to alliteration.

The Unseen Strangers @ The Rainbow Bistro Wednesday December 15 Bluegrass, Jamgrass, What-the-fu*k-grass, we play it all... If you want to see some serious can-jam string band music, come on down, it's only $5 for three sets. UnseenStrangers.ca

Hamilton in february, we'll let you know. KW, soon, we promise... and ya, we'll be playing 'till close on Saturday.

howdy fellow heads, The Unseen Strangers, Toronto's newest bluegrass/jamgrass pranksters will be officially launching their new CD "Time Travel" THIS SATURDAY at the Silver Dollar at 10PM. I know, I know, the nuJazz festival is gonna be sick... For those of you looking for some rip-snortin' twangy bluegrass with a jammy twist, come out to The Dollar and help us get this CD out in skanky style. Hear some tunes from the CD: UnseenStrangers.ca (click "Launch Player") MySpace

Well deserved for old Noam! Hot damn, 50 000 per year? as in, Noam now has a permanent $50000 raise for life? or is it just in the year you receive the prize. either way, fucking great!

Shameless bump... The show is tonight! I know its raining, but that just means we'll play extra hard to cheer everyone up. See ya!

Anyone in Toronto who wants to see some original bluegrass music (a few covers thrown in there too) in the Kensington Market area should come out to Graffiti's on Baldwin st. The band is called The Unseen Strangers, the show is Thursday September 16 from 8 to 11 PM, and costs $6. Hear some tunes from our upcoming album at our Myspace or some videos on YouTube See you there!

Yes yes, I forgot to mention about the Dusty Drifters opening in Ottawa. On that note, the show tonight will feature The Free Whiskey String Band to start the night off, followed by 2 sets of The Unseen Strangers.

Hamilton is definitely in the works, edger. Hamilton, Guelph, K-W, Ottawa. any cities with heads in them...

shameless bump. The show is tonight, and I swear it will kick ass! Come check it out, if you're not happy, we can roshambo in the alley behind the elmo after the show. $6 cover, it's on the second floor of the el mocambo. also, all the profits from the bar go to charity at the el mo these days, so that's nice too. - Jeff

Hello Skanks, I'm in a bluegrass/jamgrass band called The Unseen Strangers, some of you may have seen me post on here about The Strangeboys, same band, new name. We just moved to Toronto from Halifax, haven't played many shows, but our new album is all recorded and we're ready to start playing live again, starting this Friday, upstairs at The El Mocambo. Doors open at 9:00, show starts at 10:00 and cover is only $6! That's right, we're practically giving it away. check our website or our myspace to hear some tunes from the new album. We played Evolve for the last 3 years as well as a bunch of other shit around the East Coast, so don't worry, we're legit and the show won't suck. For you Ottawa heads, we'll be playing at The Clocktower Pub on Bank St. Saturday September 25th, and at The Elmdale House on Friday October 29th. See you there! Oh, and if you like us on Facebook we'll keep you posted about our upcoming shows.

maybe so, deranger, the jury's out on that one... but i think you'll like their songs, and their jams are super fun and dancy. The show is tonight (thursday), come support canadian jam music! ps, the strangeboys are heady... i guarantee satisfaction.

thanks bradm, that is indeed true, we will be at the Black Sheep on Saturday. if any of you are in Kingston, we're playing at The Mansion on Friday night (Jan 8) as well!

Don't miss this Toronto Jam event! The Strangeboys and Cosmic Granola hit The Drake Hotel this thursday, January 7th. The Strangeboys - bluegrass / Jamgrass insanity. Tightly composed original songs and improv jamming, all put together on that most beautiful combination of acoustic instruments - Guitar, Banjo, Mandolin, Fiddle and Bass. Check out sets from last summer's Sunseeker's Ball and Evolve Cosmic Granola - Crunchy, funky rock from Thunder Bay. Really fun to dance to. Their originals are thoughtful, fun and tight, their jams will keep you grooving uncontrollably all night. strangeboys.ca cosmicgranola.ca You're gonna LOVE it!

Hey there friends, My band, The Strangeboys will be playing at The Horseshoe next monday, December 28. If you like bluegrass music, and you like jam bands, come check us out. we've been playing together for 2.5 years now, based out of Halifax, and we're about to move to Toronto, so you'll see a lot more of us in the spring time. You can hear partial sets from Sunseeker's Ball and Evolve this past summer. All you Dead Heads should listen to the Brown Eyed Women from Sunseeker's Ball. Come support Canadian Jam Band Music! strangeboys.ca

hello fellow CanJam friends, warning: Shameless plug to follow. Just wanted to let you guys know about a great Jam event happening tonight (monday the 29th) at the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto. There's two bands on the bill: Cosmic Granola (Thunder Bay Groovegasm) and the Strangeboys (Halifax Jamgrass insanity). all the fun and excitement of bluegrass music, combined with funk, techno/electronica, reggae and rock jams that make you think "how are they making those sounds on acoustic instruments?" We (the Strangeboys) have been playing shows together for just over a year and have been working really hard to put together a live show that takes bluegrass and acoustic music to new places while still keeping ourselves firmly anchored to that traditional "High, lonesome sound". Show starts at 9:30 PM with Cosmic Granola, followed by The Strangeboys at 10:45. Hope you can make it, i promise you'll have a good time. www.strangeboys.ca