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The Friendly Frogs Freakshow + The Ratskin Family Band


  • The Toucan & Kirkpatrick's 76 Princess Street Kingston, ON, K7L 1A5 Canada (map)

The Friendly Frogs Freakshow: The Friendly Frogs Freak Show Amphibian progressive funk energetically charged and ready to fire you up into a vortex of infinite sounds and colours, backed by an eclectic rhythm section offering dancy shivers and auspicious ambiances to make you bring out your inner frog.

It’s 2015, five friends in a jam night bonding together by their love of funk music, fun and frogs are cry-laughing over a complilation of words starting with the letters ‘fr’. Since then, they have traveled around the Quebec and Ontario regions, spreading their love of frogs through their weird bland of funk music, leaving everyone astonished behind them. The musical collective now counting 8 members, their performance varies by adding or removing highs such as guitars, saxophones, violon, trumpet or keyboards to go along with bass and drums, making each of their performances unique and distinguished.


The Ratskin Family Band:
For decades, country and western fans have been begging for an all-drag-queen, -king, and -thing band. The Ratskin Family Band is an answer to these prayers. This glamorous group of critters plays country standards, reimagined pop hits, and original country songs with queer themes. In this band you will find familiar faces from Toronto’s drag and music scenes: Amanda Prior (banjo/mando), Kitty Creature (fiddle), Terry Dickoff (bass), Zephline (acoustic guitar), Sherry Douglas (pedal steel/electric guitar/dobro), and Tago Mago (percussion). Formed in January 2024, The Ratskin Family Band has spent the past two years raising hell and delighting audiences in Toronto’s best music venues. The Ratskin Family Band has just wrapped a 6-month residency at Drom Taberna in downtown Toronto and preparing to release their debut EP in the fall. They will be touring Ontario over the summer in support of this release. This group sets out to show audiences that country music is for everyone, and as a band, they have carved out the space they wanted to see: an unabashedly queer, country, rollicking good time. The Ratskin Family Band is known for a drag show like no other and a concert the likes of which can’t be found anywhere else on this planet. Laugh, cry, dance, and witness some queers absolutely shred some twangy tunes.

Earlier Event: August 8
Double Barrel
Later Event: August 14
Mellow Lily