What a month!

Wow. Only a few days left in the tour with Ronley Teper. I have new love for and interest in Poland and loved performing in Budapest for the first time but more than anything; my love of Czech continues to grow. Thanks to all the great people we met along the way. (especially the musicians!) We perform in Toronto at the Tranzac on Tuesday March 31 7-9pm

Back to Europe with Ronley Teper!

I am so pumped to be leaving tommorrow for the European tour with Ronley Teper (and our violinist Pavel Cingl). We are doing 16 shows in 20 days. I am returing to lots of my favourite cities and countries as well as visiting some new ones. (My first time in Hungary!) Here is the poster and info you can find on her website. I hope you can come and check us out and come up and say hi. Tour Dates: Feb 19 – Porto, PT Casa la Música* Feb 21 – Lisbon, PT LAV* Mar 7 – Lede, BE Koning Ezel Mar 8 – Hague, NL De Stamboon= Mar 9 – Ghent, BE Missy Sippy Mar 11 – Dordrecht, NL Café de Vrijheid Mar 12 – RTV-Ridderkerk-NL Mar 17 – Poznan, PL Tama* Mar 18 – Wroclaw, PL Pieśniarze Mar 19 – Krakow, PL Kwadrat* Mar 20 – Boskovice, CZ Prostor Mar 21 – Vienna, AT House Concert Mar 22 – Budapest, HU The Pulse Mar 24 – Prague, CZ Cafe V lese# Mar 25 – Brno, CZ Alterna Club# Mar 27 – Ceska Lipa, CZ U Bílýho Cernocha^ Mar 28 – Pilzen, CZ Zach’s Pub Mar 29 – Fürth, DE “Stringbreak” Kopf & Kragen” Opening for: *Michelle Gurevich, #Bára Zmeková, *Giovanni’s Zoo, ^Linger On, ”Romans Nailed It

All the January fun!

Here is the newsletter I sent out to my mailing list for my January activities. ------------ hi folks, Happy New Year! I am happy to stop eating Christmas cookies and get back to work. Hope this finds you with hope in your heart for a decent future on topics big and small. January has some fun stuff for me. Why wait?...let's go! Tuesday Jan 6, Cluttertones @ Sellers and Newel, 8pm Wednesday Jan 7, Ronley Teper/Tim Posgate Tom Waits Tribute, The Block Co. 395 John st. Burlington, On. 8pm Thursday Jan 15, Cluttertones; Memory of Light (feature film on the big screen at Innis Town Hall on U of T campus) FREE ADMISSION 7pm -I wrote a little post about this Luka Kuplowsky film on my blog www.guildwoodrecords.blogspot.com Sunday Jan 18 Ronley Teper/Tim Posgate, Communist's Daughter (middle set for John Borra) Friday Jan 23, Tim Posgate Trio (special guests tba) The Rex jazz bar, 5-7pm Tuesday Jan 27, Ronley Teper's Lipliners, Tranzac 7-9pm Thanks for reading this. Hope you can make it out for some of the fun! -tim

Cluttertones Film Premiere

I have been playing with my friends in a group called Cluttertones for something like two decades. We have shared a lot of good times and great music. The group features Lina Allemano on trumpet, Ryan Driver on analog synth and our fearless leader Rob Clutton plays the bass and composes the music. (I play banjo and guitar) At some point while we were rehearsing for one of our recordings one of us suggested that we make a documentary about ourselves. I know that sounds a little bit strange but I think our main reason was we wanted to share a little bit of the joy, the humour and the friendship we have with those who are not in the rehearsal studio with us. This idea lingered for some time. I think we even talked about going shopping for used clothing together and capturing it all on our phones and using that as a starting point for a film. Well…we never went shopping and never started making that film. A year or two passed and Ryan mentioned that he had a friend who was a film maker that might be interested in making a Cluttertones film. One day Ryan’s friend Luka Kuplowsky showed up at one of our rehearsals and started filming us at work. It took us a minute to feel comfortable with the camera rolling all the time but eventually we became pretty good at being ourselves again. Without giving too much away before you see the film, it has some things in common with the classic documentary style showing a work in progress with a look at the behind the scenes creative process. Luka Kuplowsky studied film making at York University but he is also a wonderful singer/songwriter and did a fair bit of touring in Canada last year in support of his recent release called How Can I Possibly Sleep When There Is Music. His film, Memory Of Light; featuring the Cluttertones will be premiering on January 15 at 7pm at Innis Town Hall. Admission is free! Also, the Cluttertones are performing live on January 6 at Sellers and Newel.

MondoBanjo: Wolfe Island's Festival of the Banjo

I don't think I have blogged about this exciting new event yet. MondoBanjo is a banjo festival. It is on Wolfe Island (you take a free ferry from Kingston) It is on the weekend of September 5,6,7, 2025. Tickets go on sale on the MondoBanjo Facebook page on Wednesday June 4 at noon. Actually, it is the Early-Bird Festival Passes that go on sale that day. There are a limited number available and they are only available for one week. Also that day we will announce the artist line-up for the festival and the pricing for festival passes. https://www.facebook.com/MondoBanjo Here are a couple little tidbits that I will share with you since you read my blog. Our main sponsor is https://hotelwolfeisland.com/ This is a very cool little hotel where most of the events at the Mondo Banjo festival will take place. They have a limited number of rooms available for the festival so you might want to contact them immediately if you are thinking of attending and book your room. Another thing I am excited to tell you is that I will be performing with one of the groups at this years festival. Details on the FB page on June 4. This festival is going to have lots of great concerts and workshops but there will also be lots of jamming for all you banjo pickers of any style. <

Four Tuesdays in February at the Rex and a Podcast!

Hi folks, I bring good news. (even if it is a little late) I have gigs! Four tuesdays in February at the Rex Jazz Bar on Queen st. W.  My Jazz Banjo Project features Andrew Downing on bass, Kelsley Grant on trombone and Aline Homzy on violin. We play two sets every Tuesday this month from 530-730. I really hope you can make it for the first set as that is when we will be playing all the new music I have been busy writing.  I am also happy to tell you about a podcast interview I did on the popular podcast called Music Buddy. My pal and musical partner Ronley Teper and I had a lot of fun doing this interview with Jane Gowan (recorded by Tim Vesely) and then the four of us recorded one of Ronley's tunes.  You can find Music Buddy here (or wherever you usually listen to podcasts): https://www.musicbuddy.ca/1817893/episodes/16443461-ronley-teper-tim-posgate-fearless-and-fun Ronley and I will be playing with the Lipliners for our last monthly show at the Tranzac on Wednesday Feb 26 at 930pm. pwyc. Hope see you at one of these shows! -tim

Winner winner chicken dinner!

I don't blog about hockey much anymore. It seemed like a good day for it. Heck, I got the winning goal. Tuesday morning hockey is always fun. Such a great group of guys; musicians, comedians, one of my fave neighbours and more. I always enjoy and take advantage of the open ice before we play. I need to practise all my "hot-dog moves" including the Michigan which I actually pulled off successfuly (albeit a bit sloppy) in the tuesday game one time. I wasn't having a great game individually today but I still always have a great time. There were only a couple minutes left on the clock and I saw an opening up the right wing. I considered dishing to my left winger but I thought we better get a shot on net just in case. I put up a decent backhand and I think it just squeezed under Burkie's arm above his pad. It doesn't matter; it went in and we won. After Tuesday hockey is over I always have to wait three more days until the classic Friday hockey game. My body likes the days off for recovery at this point (58 yrs old) and I will certainly watch a few hockey games between then and now. Go Leafs Go (we miss you Auston! ...speedy recovery I hope)