Kevin Quain And The Mad Bastards
Kevin Quain And The Mad Bastards
Kevin Quain is a musician, songwriter, award-winning playwright and bar fly. Between his various bands, local weekly “house gigs”, he performs well over 200 shows a year. He’s best known as leader of the “garage jazz cabaret noir” ensemble Mad Bastards. Their Sunday night residency -now in it’s second decade- and Quain’s two independently released CDs have won a cult following that spans from Los Angeles to Yellowknife to Tokyo, bringing musicians, movie stars and other creatures of the night to Toronto’s venerable Cameron House to witness the mayhem firsthand.
He is also the resident accordionista for several other bands including itinerant Tex-mex combo Rancho Misterio, country & western quintet The Cameron Family Singers and occasionally with celtic rockers The Mahones.
“Kevin Quain and the Mad Bastards turn pop music on it’s ear and shake it loose for change.”
-THE TORONTO STAR
“..a superb singer-songwriter of great sensitivity and wit..”
-THE GLOBE & MAIL
