Canal Street Tavern

Great spot for local live music as well as renowned touring acts.

A very interesting event at CST is the periodic: "Songwriters in the Round" usually on a Sunday Night at 8 p.m. till around (no pun intended) 11p.m. This show has four songwriters on stage performing a song each with 5 written compositions for each writer. This past Sunday (3/20/2011) there were two sets of four with 7 male writers and only one lady; April Angel, in the second set who I initially I thought would be be overwhelmed by the men. In the end though she had captured most of the audience as her own including me.

Canal Street Tavern is the place in Dayton to see live music if you love music. This is a listening room that happens to serve drinks and features bands from bluegrass to hardcore punk. You can local musicians here almost any night of the week and just hang out while listening to great music.

My old band used to play here quite often and it's just as good for musicians as it is for fans. Mick does a great job featuring all styles of original music and helps new young bands get shows.