Evening Main Stage Host

Singer, songwriter and guitarist Dave Bidini was a founding member of the popular band Rheostatics. After 20 years together, the band played its final concert in the spring of 2007.

Dave is also a prolific author, who often writes about music and sports. On A Cold Road: Tales of Adventure in Canadian Rock, his first book, is based on a cross-country tour the Rheostatics did with The Tragically Hip. For Tropic of Hockey: My Search for the Game in Unlikely Places, he interviewed professional hockey players in far-flung places, including Romania, Hong Kong and the Middle East.

Dave lives in Toronto and travels worldwide. One of his favourite recent trips was to Sierra Leone and Ghana with War Child Canada’s music outreach program.