Founded by songwriter Jason Collett on a snowy night in December at the Dakota Tavern, the Basement Revue has been a showcase and incubator for Canadian music and literature for more than 10 years and has featured performances by many of Canada’s leading musicians and writers including A Tribe Called Red, Gord Downie, Naomi Klein, Broken Social Scene, Tanya Tagaq, Leanne Simpson and many more.
Co-curated and co-hosted by the writer Damian Rogers, the program and participants are kept secret until the performance begins.