Toronto artist (visual and musical) August Knight invited the entire board of the Toronto Blues Society to a special event called Toronto Rocks at the legendary El Mocambo. Nobody in my circle knew this guy, but a couple of us thought it's a great chance to check out that classy joint and maybe discover a new artist. We were told some blues artists would be performing, including Paul Reddick, but it was mostly a who's who of the Toronto indie music scene who came to play a tune while Knight's portraits of them was projected on the big screen (and on numerous big-screens scattered around the room. The artwork was amazing, woodcut prints that started as sketches (of 30+ local musos) which were digitized, enhanced and finally rendered in wood using a laser. Knight explains, “I met this woodworker in Hamilton, Wilma Nardone, who introduced me to the essence of wood. So, I could actually burn the energy of these artists into the wood itself. Then it was like, ‘Okay, now I’ve got something cool.’ So, the wood was really a big part of it.” It was a great event and well-attended, but I've got a feeling it was mostly a big guest list so he must have had some sponsorship or other funding. A dozen or so of the depicted artists showed up to play a song or two and I did a sweep of his "wall of fame" and captured some snippets of a few of them