Spring Loaded

On Thursday, The Danforth Music Hall hosted two incredibly high-energy performers. First up was Big Freedia. She brought a DJ, 2 dancers, a band to book-end her set, and Atlanta Bounce to Toronto. This genre recently hit the mainstream with several songs from Drake, which Big Freedia sang including Nice For What. Both the dancers and Freedia gyrated and twerked all night, finally inviting some Toronto audience members on stage to show if they can also shake their money maker.

New Orleans-based Tank and The Bangas kept the energy going with a theatrical set equal parts funk, spoken word and rap. Though lead singer Tarriona Ball sometimes unleashed her pipes, when she sang it was usually in a baby-ish voice. Though the crowd may not have danced with the same fervour as in the first set, they were equally entranced with the spectacle on stage.