Music Compass
Toronto is Canada’s largest centre for music and home to hundreds of live music venues and record stores, dozens of music festivals, and thousands of talented artists.
To celebrate this vibrant music scene, the City of Toronto, in partnership with Destination Toronto, presents Music Compass—a pilot project highlighting local music in select neighbourhoods.
Explore the participating neighbourhoods below and discover local music nearby.
Anchored by the iconic Danforth Music Hall, Broadview-Danforth is an east-end hub for music and culture, and home turf for artists and industry leaders in music, film, and media.
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One of Toronto’s social and cultural hotspots, the area along and adjacent to College St offers everything from international touring acts at Axis Club to local faves at Sneaky Dee’s and the Monarch, with a taste of everything in between.
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Art meets commerce on vibrant Queen Street West, the historic area that drove Toronto’s cultural renaissance a generation ago. This district nurtured Toronto’s early punk, rock, and alt-country scenes.
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Founded by entrepreneur Joseph Bloor in 1830, the Village of Yorkville has always been the heart and soul of Toronto. Distinguished by Victorian houses, quaint laneways and picturesque gardens, it has had many incarnations since its beginning.
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The corner of Dundas and Spadina is the focal point of this dynamic community, whose sidewalks overflow with fruit stalls, vendors, and throngs of people shopping, eating, and socializing.
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One of Toronto’s top creative clusters and the city’s centre of artistic innovation, West Queen West’s Art + Design District between Bathurst Street and Gladstone Avenue is home to over 300 galleries, design houses, unique shops, restaurants, and boutique hotels.
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Dundas Street West from Lansdowne to Shaw is one of Toronto’s prime locales for street culture, with a cacophony of public art, boutique stores, galleries, eclectic bars and restaurants–and top independent music venues offering country and hard rock to Latin and global sounds.
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From historic theatres steeped in decades of musical heritage to cutting-edge clubs showcasing the latest sounds, these are the city’s most celebrated stages.
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