Membership dues for the 2026 - 2027 Season are now due. Dues are $50 per person. There are no longer any family memberships. Those who join the Society subsequent to the annual concert in April 2027 are exempt from dues payment for the current year. Our Treasurer will accept cash, checks or an e-transfer. Send your dues to tdestreasurer@gmail.com
Our general Meetings are held The Fairfield Seniors' Centre at 80 Lothian Ave, Etobicoke. For those travelling by subway, from the Islington station, walk SOUTH on the east side of Islington Avenue to a little beyond Springbrook Gardens Road. There is a sidewalk OR PATHWAY going eastbound (turn left). You can see the building ahead. There will be a greeter at the appropriate entrance to direct you to the meeting room. The distance from the Islington Subway is essentially the same as to Monty's Inn at 850 meters. There is a bus service from the Islington subway. Route 110 a, b or c going south on Islington. Alight at Bering Ave.
This bus service runs on a 15-minute schedule at the 1:00 p.m. hour. For the return journey, at 4 - 5 p.m. or so, there are 6 buses per hour.
For those coming by car, there is an abundance of free parking.
You can enter the building via the west entrance - that's from the parking lot. Or you can enter the building from the north entrance. The doors do not open manually. There is the standard handicap push button or the red touchless door opener that you wave your hand over. The light turns blue when the doors start to open. We exit the building the same way.
Meetings start at 1:30 p.m. and run until about 4:00 p.m. Doors open at 1:00 p.m.
The following is the schedule for the meetings of the 2026 - 2027 season as we know them. Please refer back to this website for updates as they may occur. Changes may happen at any time.
September 8 2026 - Our first meeting of the 2026 - 2027 season will be held at the Legion Hall on Jutland Road in Etobicoke.
More details to follow. There is no charge for this concert for TDES Members as it is included in the membership fee. Non members are welcome to attend for a fee of $25 per person. Cash only at the door.
Pianist Peter Hill has been working as a sideman in the greater Toronto area for roughly two and a half decades. With a piano style steeped in early swing with shades of boogie-woogie, Hill is especially sought-after as an accompanist who can play virtually any song in any key without a chart. Previously associated with Jeff Healey, current and long-time collaborator with Laura Hubert and Alex Pangman, frequently sits in with Martin Loomer's Orange Devils and is the house pianist for Lisa Particelli’s vocalist-friendly Girls Night Out Jazz Jam. The accomplished Hill also holds a PhD in the mathematical field of Low-dimensional topology. Peter has a modern treatment of the historic Duke Ellington/Bubber Miley composition Black and Tan Fantasy which I hope he'll play for us.
More details to follow once they become available.
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