Borderless Records

26/07/2023

Our next show is this Thursday, July 27 at Erben! $10-15 or pwyc. Featuring Mother Tongues, joined by locals will ward & shahrazi

Mother Tongues is a 5 piece psych rock outfit based out of Toronto. They infuse a pop sensibility in their work, while exploring a wide sonic palette that ranges from early psyche rock to kraut rock and disco rhythms.

The group has been a prominent part of the Toronto music scene since 2012. Their highly anticipated debut full-length album, Love in a Vicious Way was just released July 21 via Wavy Haze Records.

"It's an exploration of the darker ways we love, the parts with teeth," Cheung said of its title. "It possesses you, it's a pit you fall into. Love overtakes you, this record is about surrendering to that feeling."

Members of the group also perform with Luna Li, Zoon, Lido Pimienta, and Hooded Fang.

26/10/2022

This Saturday! Borderless Arts Fest 2022:// Oct. 29 with Sahira Q, mouthfeel, Effigy Girl, Harbhajunkie, Sutton, and Shahrazi ✨️

22/10/2022

the oh so dreamy Effigy Girl & ethereal Harbhajunkie will be playing live at the Gordon Best Theatre next Saturday, October 29 ~ ⋆｡ﾟ☁︎｡⋆｡ ﾟ☾ ﾟ｡⋆ float on to Borderless Arts Fest 2022:// Oct. 29

music and lyrics by me vocals by Mridul Harbhajanka insta: youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh407DG5XRyv5bdgATyYRrw check out the visualizer by Mridul on her channel: https://

16/10/2022

hehehehehe!!! bring your soul to the Gordon Best Theatre for a night of surreal music, visuals, poetry, drag, and ritual dance witchery ✨ Borderless Arts Fest 2022:// Oct. 29

09/09/2022

Celebrating 5 years of Borderless Arts & Culture!! ✨✨✨

Borderless 2022:// Little Fire, Colton Sisters, Effigy Girl, & Shahrazi

Live at the Gordon Best Theatre
Friday, September 9
Doors at 7pm
Advanced tickets: $15
Door tickets: $20

09/09/2022

Borderless 2022:// Little Fire, Colton Sisters, Effigy Girl, & Shahrazi ✨✨✨

Live at the Gordon Best Theatre
Friday, September 9
Doors at 7pm
Advanced tickets: $15
Door tickets: $20

09/09/2022

Shahrazi; somewhere in between the earth and the stars, she explores themes of diaspora, spirit, love, war, and rebirth. Dreamy, soulful sounds from the woods to the water to the moon and back, sinking all the way to your core (and pulling out subconscious moods and roots). You will be happy, filled with euphoric giddiness, you will dive, be challenged, you will dance and your heart will sing.

Their upcoming EP, Journey to Shahraz, mixes elements of nature, improv, the spirit of jazz and punk infused with rock, middle eastern tones, velvety vocals drenched in poetry, eastern folk fusion, surreal soul, psychic rhythms, offbeat grooves, and sensual dreamy drone dances….

Borderless 2022:// Little Fire, Colton Sisters, Effigy Girl, & Shahrazi

Live at the Gordon Best Theatre
Friday, September 9
Doors at 7pm, Shahrazi on at 11pm.

Borderless Music & Arts Festival 2021 presents Yumna & Shahrazi. Poetry by Yumna, music by Shahrazi. Yumna is a poet and spoken word artist who has also work...

09/09/2022

Borderless presents: Effigy Girl

Effigy Girl is the music and art of Hazel Dreslinski. Combining influences from shoegaze to synthpop, with a dash of folk, their songs are imbued with the mixture of delicate earnestness, hope and anxiety that arises during transitory times.

The project emerged from a collection of dodgy voice memos recorded during a period of uncertainty about the future. Equally informed by a fascination with surrealism and the uncanny valley - the foundation for Hazel’s multimedia visual art - the core of Effigy Girl is an appreciation of life, unanswerable questions, and what makes us human.
(or, that’s what they’d like to think, anyway).

Listen to their new song called "May" featuring Mridul Harbhajanka:

music and lyrics by me vocals by Mridul Harbhajanka insta: youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh407DG5XRyv5bdgATyYRrw check out the visualizer by Mridul on her channel: https://

09/09/2022

Borderless presents: The Colton Sisters ✨✨

Tonight at the Gordon Best Theatre! Doors at 7pm.

Mary and Martha Colton graduated from High School few years back. They grew up on a farm just outside of Peterborough, Ontario. They began singing at the age of 14. At the age of 16 they learned to play guitar and took an interest in songwriting.

The Colton Sisters are passionate songwriters and their harmonies create a unique and captivating sound. These talented twins won the first round of the Don Skuce Memorial song writing contest in February, 2021 and had their winning song recorded by James McKenty and mastered by Grammy award winner, Greg Wells.

Borderless 2022:// Little Fire, Colton Sisters, Effigy Girl, & Shahrazi

09/09/2022

Advanced ticket sales end soon! See you tonight, dear friends & music fam ❤️

~ Emerging local artists offering a mix of music for your heart, soul & spirit ~

09/09/2022

Celebrating 5 years of Borderless Music & Arts Festival this Friday at the Gordon Best Theatre!

26/08/2022

Borderless Music & Arts Festival presents: Saskia Tomkins

Saskia Tomkins: a musician of the bowing kind is a master musician of Violin/Fiddle Viola, Cello and Nyckelharpa. She is classically trained with a folk background and a B.A.hons. in Music (Jazz & Popular Music), and she won All Britain Champion Irish Fiddler. Saskia’s current personal projects include Steáfán & Saskia with Steáfán Hannigan, the instrumental jazz/roots duo 2ish, with Brandon Scott Besharah; the Celtic crossover group Cáirdeas and the jazz trio Marsala and the Imports. She also plays in the Maple Leaf Jug Band. She is currently principle 2nd violin for Quinte Symphony Orchestra. Saskia also teaches privately from her home near Cobourg, Ontario, and runs workshops at festivals.

Saskia will also be playing the next Borderless show with Little Fire Collective on Friday, September 9 at the Gordon Best Theatre.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-VYboAzoGw



Thanks to the support of Electric City Culture Council, Artsweek Peterborough, Peterborough DBIA, and OPIRG Peterborough.

Borderless Music & Arts Festival 2021 presents: Saskia TomkinsSaskia Tomkins is a master musician of Violin/Fiddle Viola, Cello and Nyckelharpa. She is class...

18/02/2022

Borderless Music & Arts Festival presents: Betty Baker's very first music video featuring the song "Nobody" by Mitski! This video was shot by Chris Coghill at various spots throughout Peterborough, Canada (Treaty 20). Their next drag brunch show is on March 13 at The El P.

Betty Baker is an 18 year old drag queen from Peterborough, Ontario. A member of the Haus of Accounting, Betty has performed across southern Ontario, splitting, spinning, and spreading joy. She’s been doing drag for 3 years now and is almost ready to take on the world, she just has to learn how to drive first. Betty is a diva who loves to bake, create, sew, and perform, her favourite thing about drag is making people smile!

https://youtu.be/ZIN1Wl3Gspg



Our virtual festival would not be possible without the support of Electric City Culture Council, Artsweek Peterborough, Peterborough DBIA, and OPIRG Peterborough.

Borderless Music & Arts Festival 2021 presents: Betty Baker's very first music video featuring the song "Nobody" by Mitski! This video was shot by Chris Cogh...

17/02/2022

Borderless Music & Arts Festival presents: a live from the basement performance by people you meet outside of bars .

people you meet outside of bars is the tenderly spooky, uncannily tuneful, and radically honest musical project of Satah Cameron. Their prolific output includes at least 16 EPs and albums which take listeners by the hand and guide them through bedrooms, hospital rooms, and dive bar bathrooms, whispering poetry in their ears all the while.

https://youtu.be/pkrJSAhcH3U

Borderless Music & Arts Festival 2021 presents: a live from the basement performance by people you meet outside of bars. people you meet outside of bars is t...

16/02/2022

Borderless Music & Arts Festival presents: Steelburner & Suns, live from the barn!

Steelburner & Suns is a musical family, enjoying creating and performing together. Featuring the Staveley-Watson family, these musicians learn and play together, performing a collection of original and traditional tunes as a 4 piece band.

https://youtu.be/T5wzOdIrSRQ

Borderless Music & Arts Festival 2021 presents: Steelburner & Suns, live from the barn!Steelburner & Suns is a musical family, enjoying creating and performi...

16/02/2022

Borderless Music & Arts Festival
presents: a backyard performance by Little Fire Collective. Original, post folk/rock group out of Peterborough. Edging into the ethereal (and sometimes the hokey), trans-genre, quirky, heartwarming and powerful songs twining natural imagery with love, suffering and personal growth.

Featuring songwriting and vocals by Sue Nelson (Scratch, The Loud Sisters), Judy Jordan: electric banjo, bouzouki, Kirsten Addis (Dub Trinity): vocals, percussion, Rory Cogley (Fractal): bass guitar. The cornerstones of the band are vocal harmonies, electric banjo, percussion, and occasionally a kazoo.



https://youtu.be/K3vMJsvzYRM

Borderless Music & Arts Festival 2021 presents: a backyard performance by Little Fire Collective. Original, post folk/rock group out of Peterborough. Edging ...

16/02/2022

Borderless Music & Arts Festival presents a cross cultural collaboration between Saskia Tomkins, Jade, and Shahrazi at Millennium Park by the Silver Bean Cafe in Peterborough, Ontario (Treaty 20). Saskia plays the nyckelharpa & violin, Jade is drumming on the djembe, and Shahrazi plays the daf. They had never played together before and this outdoor improv session was also a very new experience for newly emerging artists Jade & Shahrazi. These multidisciplinary artists come from mixed cultural backgrounds and are playing instruments from 3 different continents. We wonder if these instruments have ever been played together!

A nyckelharpa is a traditional Swedish string instrument. The Djembe is a goblet drum originally from West Africa. The Daf is an Iranian frame drum played throughout the Middle East.

This was a very magical day at Millennium Park and we are very grateful for the support we got from the Silverbean Cafe, OPIRG Peterborough, and Electric City Culture Council to make this happen. https://youtu.be/tVnTmOTJwNM

Borderless Music & Arts Festival presents a cross cultural collaboration between Saskia Tomkins, Jade, and Shahrazi at Millennium Park by the Silver Bean Caf...

02/02/2022

Borderless Music & Arts Festival presents poetry by Yumna, music by Shahrazi. Dreamy, soulful sounds from the woods to the water to the moon and back.

Yumna is a poet and spoken word artist who has also worked as a journalist and newspaper editor and enjoys writing prose and fiction. With a focus on the liminal space of the body and mind, her work aims to connect ideas that may have otherwise drifted away from each other.

https://youtu.be/LPVhQtDJ2m8

Borderless Music & Arts Festival 2021 presents Yumna & Shahrazi. Poetry by Yumna, music by Shahrazi. Yumna is a poet and spoken word artist who has also work...

01/02/2022

Mood of the day: standpartners

A mix of chambercore, dream jazz, semi-traditional, and post-contemporary, standpartners weaves stringy currents of melodies that tear at the seams. Violin (Cruz) and cello (Isaiah Farahbakhsh) navigate through a quasi-composed landscape of sound, noise, and space.

This video is from a special retrospective broadcast of Borderless Music & Arts Festival 2018 at Evans Contemporary Art Gallery.

https://youtu.be/Rr7kL-xgVqs

Retrospective footage of Borderless Music & Arts Festival 2018 at Evans Contemporary Art Gallery featuring standpartners. A mix of chambercore, dream jazz, s...

31/01/2022

Happy Monday! Happy lunar new year! Here is some music to bring you warmth and soothe your soul ✨

Tiger Balme is love-child of passion, feminism, self-love and good vibes. This fledgling musical group is comprised of four womxn: harpist, poet and multi-disciplinary performer Anda Zeng; your friendly neighbourhood percussionist Danielle Sum; singer, guitarist and lyricist Esther Phua; and bassist/vocalizer Jessika Godfrey. Tiger Balme was formed on a shared desire to increase representation of female-identifying artists and people of colour in the local Toronto music scene. The band offers an alternative sound; resonant vibraphone grounds an ensemble of delicate plucked instruments and ethereal harmonies. Tiger Balme's songs are rooted in themes of identity, empowerment, and the everyday moments in between.

Check it out, we are re-living the magic of Borderless Music & Arts Festival 2018 at Evans Contemporary Art Gallery.

Retrospective footage of Borderless Music & Arts Festival 2018 at Evans Contemporary Art Gallery. Tiger Balme is love-child of passion, feminism, self-love a...

31/01/2022

Borderless Music & Arts Festival 2021 presents: a virtual drag show featuring the first official music videos of Betty Baker, Just Janis, and Sahira Q.

There is some really amazing talent in this city and we are so honoured to help capture the magic to share with you.



would not be possible without the support of Electric City Culture Council, Artsweek Peterborough, Peterborough DBIA, and OPIRG Peterborough.

https://youtu.be/0fV_SX_0JNM

Borderless Music & Arts Festival 2021 presents: Betty Baker, Just Janis, and Sahira Q. The hottest drag performance artists of Peterborough and beyond! There...

30/01/2022

Borderless Music & Arts Festival presents: JONCRO (live from the basement)

JONCRO is an Afro-Jamaican fronted experimental noise rock/Dubgaze based out of Mississauga, Ontario. They have been together for five years as of November and have been spreading the gospel of noise ever since. The name Joncro is Jamaican Patois for vulture, specifically the turkey vultures that are native to the Americas. The name was chosen as a celebration of guitarist/singer Daniel G. Wilson’s Jamaican heritage and because it sounds really cool. Catch Daniel alongside bandmates Matthew Mikuljan on drums and Kieran Christie on bass/keyboards.



would not be possible without the support of Electric City Culture Council, Artsweek Peterborough, Peterborough DBIA, and OPIRG Peterborough.

Joncro is an Afro-Jamaican fronted experimental noise rock/Dubgaze based out of Mississauga, Ontario. They have been together for five years as of November a...

30/01/2022

late night chats about gender, race, culture, art, performance, community, intersectionality, and so much more with Muna Ahmed and Sahira Q.

This is just the beginning. Stay tuned for future streams coming your way soon!

https://youtu.be/snR64JkRMfk

Borderless Music & Arts Festival 2021 presents: a late night roundtable discussion about gender, race, art, performance, community, intersectionality, and so...

30/01/2022

Borderless Music & Arts Festival presents: comedy on the lawn with Muna Ahmed

Muna Ahmed is a community organizer and occasional funny girl based in Nogojiwanong. She likes to focus her comedy on the many different intersections in her life and current social movements.



wouldn't have been possible without the support of Electric City Culture Council, Artsweek Peterborough, Peterborough DBIA, and OPIRG Peterborough.

Borderless Music & Arts Festival 2021 presents: comedy on the lawn with Muna AhmedMuna Ahmed is a community organizer and occasional funny girl based in Nogo...

02/01/2022

Borderless Music & Arts Festival 2021 presents Ále Suárez! Please enjoy this live musical performance at The Sapphire Room in Peterborough Nogojiwanong (treaty 20).

Ále is a q***r, trans, non-binary, Venezuelan-American, Canadian immigrant, multi-instrumentalist, Expressive Arts Therapist and singer songwriter. Phew that's a whole lot of adjectives but bare with us! They are currently a Masters of Divinity student at Luther Seminary. Their dream is to create a safe space for the LGBTQI2SA+ community to dwell and commune with the divine and spirituality. They believe the arts speak the language of our souls, which gives us direct access to our most authentic self.



would not be possible without the support of Electric City Culture Council, Artsweek Peterborough, Peterborough DBIA, and OPIRG Peterborough.

Borderless Music & Arts Festival 2021 presents Ále Suárez! Please enjoy this live musical performance at The Sapphire Room in Peterborough Nogojiwanong (trea...

02/01/2022

Borderless Music & Arts Festival 2021 presents: Kelli Marshall.

In this video, Kelli Marshall introduces herself and then gives us a pow wow fancy shawl dance performance at Riverside Tattoo & Skate Shop. The song featured is by local Peterborough band: "Passion Ride" by River Jensen.

Kelli Marshall is an Anishinaabe (Ojibway) from the Mississauga territory of Hiawatha First Nation. She represents the Pike Clan. Her most important jobs are, a Mother, sister, friend, and provider. She is a Professional dancer, facilitator, teacher, and storyteller. She has been dancing since she could walk, and has been taught in most forms of dance. She has been teaching workshops, and dance classes on Indigenous style dancing for six years.



would not be possible without the support of Electric City Culture Council, Artsweek Peterborough, Peterborough DBIA, and OPIRG Peterborough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkZDRZdd8tA&t=261s

Borderless Music & Arts Festival 2021 presents: Kelli Marshall.In this video, Kelli Marshall introduces herself and then gives us a pow wow fancy shawl dance...

02/01/2022

Kavya’s name literally translates to “a collection of poems.” Poetry exists within them as a form of comprehension, a form of longing, a call for desperation. From a small hill station in India, Kavya spends her time unlearning colonial thought and making spaces where everyone exists as they are. Keep a lookout for some bonus content you can carry in physical forms (hint: an upcoming chapbook “frolic of identity”).



would not be possible without the support of Electric City Culture Council, Artsweek Peterborough, Peterborough DBIA, and OPIRG Peterborough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SInq2yvsyfM

Kavya’s name literally translates to “a collection of poems.” Poetry exists within them as a form of comprehension, a form of longing, a call for desperation...