Dr Draw

Dr Draw at Hugh's Room Live
Performance at 8PM
Advance Tickets $30.00 Door $35.00

This performance is curated by Adam Moffatt and Emma Steen with generous support from Ontario Creates.

There are very few names that can promise you won’t leave their gravitational pull without undergoing some kind of transformative emotional experience, and one of those names is Dr. Draw. Eugene Draw aka Dr. Draw moved to Canada with his family in 1992, and learned his craft busking on the streets of Toronto where he earned his stage moniker as a healer of the spirit. Impossible to ignore, Dr. Draw was often solely responsible for bringing the people he encountered out of their somber mood and into a sunny one.

Being an integral part of the Toronto cultural scene for the last 27 years, Dr. Draw is known as the first violinist to venture from rock and classical into electronic music culture. and a Canadian heartthrob in the early 2000’s, though with ambitions and audiences reaching far beyond the borders of the city of his youth, Dr. Draw has seen much renewed success in the past 4 years. Internationally, he has performed for the opening of the Westfield World Trade Center 9/11 memorial in 2016, at the Canadian Embassy in Washington DC representing Toronto’s culture and diversity in 2017, alongside members of the Gypsy Kings in Mexico, for TV appearances in Sri Lanka, and was once again invited to perform at the Sovereign Art Foundation’s Art Fund in Hong Kong in 2019. Dr. Draw has also opened for many star acts these past 4 years including John Legend, Mariah Carey, Shaggy, 2 Cellos, and Drake.

However,  Dr. Draw has always been more than a performing artist, he is just as well known for his productions and compositions, often teaming up with other uniquely talented musicians to bring out that specially crafted sound. Recently, he has had the pleasure to return to composing for dance after being chosen to create a song for Canada’s National Ballet School’s country wide initiative, Sharing Dance. Dr. Draw has also assisted in the scoring of several independent films, and more impressively, for the BBC documentary, Death on the I-95 concerning the opioid crisis in the USA.

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