The 24th Street Wailers are a group of experienced, driven and academically trained musicians known for their funky, danceable and often hilarious live performances. Tickets $12 adv/$15 door. Phone 613-756-2029. Reserve for dinner and get a great spot! Always a good time at the Legendary Wilno Tavern!

Semi-finalists in this years International Blues Challenge in Memphis featuring Blues Bands from all over the world. Once again like everywhere they go, they were crowd favorites getting everybody there up and having a good time!

The band has played most of the joints in their home town of Toronto: Grossman’s, the Silver Dollar Room, the Rex, Hugh’s Room and assorted pubs and bars. In 2010, after only one year together as a band, The 24th Street Wailers made waves in the tight-knit blues community by winning the Toronto Blues Society talent search and performing at festivals such as The South Side Shuffle, The Barrie Jazz and Blues Festival, The Orangeville Blues and Jazz Festival, the Toronto Blues Society’s 25th anniversary party, the Dutch Mason Blues Festival etc.

The 24th Street Wailers were the only English band to be a part of and win both prizes of the Festiblues International du Montreal and Prize of the Bourse Air Transat /Blues Sur Seine, the prize being a coveted headline spot at the Blues-Sur-Seine Festival in France in 2011.

Their 2011 release "Dirty Little Young’uns" debuted at number three in Canada and number eight over all on the Roots Music Report and was on the DAWG FM top twenty charts for several months. It was the featured “Blues Breaker of the Week” on Dan Aykroyd’s House of Blues Radio Hour.