The 21st Century's most popular and prolific soul party makes a rare appearance in Toronto! Embrace and With It Present Jonathan Toubin / New York Night Train SOUL CLAP & DANCE OFF w/live The Cool Hands + The Enchanters plus $100 Dance Contest with DJ Nico Sat, Nov 16, Velvet Underground, 9pm 'til late, 19+ - shake a tail feather all night long to the legendary o.g. 45rpm soul magic of NYC's Jonathan Toubin / New York Night Train! - live performances by The Cool Hands! and The Enchanters! - $100 Midnight Dance Contest with DJ Nico (Teresinha Costa of With It)! and a distinguished panel of judges! make a night of it! catch thee clap! "This 45 hoarder made soul music fun again with his Soul Clap & Dance Off parties, where five-hour sets of rare grooves and B-sides provided a fleshy alternative to the club scene’s industrial snarl. Instead of bucking the trends of American pop music for some underground alternative, Toubin has made his name by embracing pop’s connective tissue, tracing the rhythm and blues, soul, and rock and roll of the nineteen-fifties and sixties.” (The New Yorker) “The most-liked man in the soul music scene” (Rolling Stone) “Jonathan is pretty much the only DJ we actually like.” (VICE Magazine) Jonathan Toubin was awarded “BEST DJ” in the Village Voice 60th anniversary “BEST OF NYC”: “We might live in an EDM world, but Jonathan Toubin has no truck with today’s musical whims. Since 2007, Toubin’s Soul Clap and Dance-Off has brought throwback pizzazz and retro cool to New York’s late-night underground. Culled from an endless array of long-forgotten Sixties soul singles, Soul Clap is pure musical dynamite, the kind of after-hours party that exposes today’s iTunes-bred, press-play DJs for their relative lack of roots and ingenuity. No fist-bumps or atomic bass drops here; instead, Toubin lovingly crafts five-hour sets that bring lost chestnuts from the likes of Vernon Harrell and the Blendells into clearer focus for a new generation of dance enthusiasts. You can try to put your moves to better use, but you’ll be hard-pressed to find more cathartic, sweatier fun elsewhere in the city.” (The Village Voice) “Particularly chic… one of the most popular spinners in Williamsburg and the founder of the New York Night Train dance parties. His fare is already cleaner and more appreciative of American pop music history than much of the rest.” (NY Times) get tickets now! https://www.ticketweb.ca/event/soul-clap-dance-off-the-velvet-underground-tickets/10003195 JONATHAN TOUBIN (NEW YORK NIGHT TRAIN) http://www.newyorknighttrain.com: https://soundcloud.com/nynt https://www.facebook.com/newyorknighttrain https://www.instagram.com/jonathantoubin/