Stephen Stanley & NoElectric

Show at 8pm, Doors at 7pm $30+ in advance, $37+ at the door Jason Mercer and Stephen Stanley spent the last year dancing around the idea of how they might play some music together. After a booking at The St. Alban’s Hall in Adolphustown, Ontario in May 2025 was followed by an interesting request to make the show all-acoustic, Stephen Stanley & NoElectric was born. It was a no-brainer that Stephen’s closest collaborator for the past 15 years, Chris Bennett, would join in on 6 and 12 string guitars. Over a decade ago, one of the jewels of the Toronto music scene was a bar in the Junction called The Troubadour. It was there that Stephen first met Michael O’Grady, and not long after, he became the focus of the third verse of a song Stephen wrote called “The Troubadour’s Song”. Michael is a brilliant live performer and brings both the accordion and the tin whistle to the NoElectric fold. Jennifer Foster Toronto singer-songwriter Jennifer Foster brings her brand new album Powerline to Hugh’s Room, in support of Stephen Stanley & NoElectric. Praised by Ron Sexsmith as “a wonderful collection of songs,” Powerline is an acoustic-driven folk-pop record inspired in part by the New Brunswick…