Live Music in the Plaza with Badgentina

Saturday | August 10 | 3pm – 5pm

badgentina is Stephen and Lisa Toon, married folk-rockers who have been making music together for over 20 years. They write and perform songs full of story, in the tradition of their favourite songwriters. Growing up on albums by the likes of Jackson Browne, the Indigo Girls, Neil Young and KD Lang, Stephen and Lisa make music in this vein — there are the heartfelt and personal ballads and intimate secrets set to music, alongside rally cries and straight-up celebration. The live show is not to be missed. The journey is real for all who partake, both the artist and art-lover get caught up in the expression and process.

The Toons have played many venues big and small on their own and with other artists/projects, locally in Western Canada and as far away as Macau and Mongolia. Around 2007, while still living in Vancouver, BC, Canada, badgentina took a long break. Over the next 10 years, 4 boys and a dog named Raphi joined the family, and then…it just felt right to get the ol’ badger train back on the tracks. The Toons formed Toonmade as their online Hub for all their goings on, it represents their independent record label and production house. By 2019 it was clear that badgentina would record a new record. It had been about 13 years since they last released an album, Brittle the Bed.