Join us for a very special afternoon of live jazz featuring acclaimed Toronto pianist Michael Shand 🎹 and guitarist 🎸Nathan Hiltz.
Together, they’ll celebrate the legendary Oscar Peterson and his love of piano-guitar duets, bringing his extraordinary musical legacy to life in an intimate performance at Beach United Church.
Saturday, November 7, 2026 4:30–5:30 pm | Doors open at 4 pm Beach United Church | 140 Wineva Avenue, Toronto
Pay What You Can — Suggested $25 per person
Your contribution supports exceptional musicians and helps keep outstanding live jazz thriving in our community.
Advance tickets are encouraged! Purchasing ahead helps us plan seating and ensure we have enough chairs ready for everyone. Pay What You Can admission will also be available at the door. Everyone is welcome!
Join us for an afternoon of Jazz & Reflection featuring one of Toronto’s most versatile and up-and-coming voices, Laurel Tubman.
Known for her ability to cross genres — from soulful jazz and reggae to the Great American Songbook — Laurel brings warmth, energy and an expressive voice that makes every song unmistakably her own. She’ll be joined by Jacob Damelin on piano and Jesse Visser on bass.
Saturday, October 10, 2026 · 4:30 p.m. Beach United Church · 140 Wineva Avenue · Main Hall Free Admission · Donations Welcome
Come enjoy great live music and the welcoming community of Jazz & Reflection at Beach United.
Join us on Sunday, September 27 at 2 p.m. in Rooms 1 & 2 on the Main Floor for a conversation with D. Grant Campbell, author of Surviving Dementia Care: The Realities of Caregiving. Admission is free, books will be available for purchase, and donations in support of the Interfaith Lunch Program at Beach United are warmly welcomed.
Beach United Church welcomes father-son duo Christopher & Simon Dawes on Saturday, December 20th at 4:30pm as they usher in the season with a dynamic program featuring jazz duets on the guitar and organ based on well-known Holiday favourites.
All proceeds help support Beach United’s music and community programs. As always, our concerts are pay-what-you-can, with a suggested minimum of $15.
CHRISTOPHER DAWES is a Toronto-based freelance performer, conductor, media professional, and consultant who performs throughout Southern Ontario and beyond with many of Canada’s finest musical institutions. Chris currently serves as Director of Music to Rosedale Presbyterian Church in Toronto, as Collaborative Accompanist and Coach to the orchestral and choral conducting programs of the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, and as a Director of Canada’s Summer Institute of Church Music. Chris’ graduate work in the area of Music Criticism and musical genre has led to occasional blogging and podcasting under the banner Ideas About Music, speaking at conferences, and eventually founding the Celtic-crossover band Chroí in 2013. He is at best a hobbyist jazz player, albeit with interest renewed by recent developments in his son Simon’s musical career.
SIMON DAWES, middle son to Chris and Marcia, is a talented multi-instrumentalist and singer/songwriter, and first-year jazz guitar student at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, where he studies with Harley Card. His musical interests have ranged from folk and classical to hardcore, but he can now mainly be found drumming for the Kitchener-based indie band Amanda Braam and the Paper Cranes, and tearing up the Toronto youth jazz scene at jams and other venues in Toronto, Guelph and Kitchener/Waterloo.
