A laid back Sunday demands laid back music, which is what the Slice featured for an intimate audience, May 15.
I caught the tail end of an exuberant set by Andrew Scott, but was most looking forward to Alyssa McQuaid.
She played a strong set of touching originals from her latest CD “Who Am I,” including the title track as well as a couple of my darker favourites including “Getting By,” and “Run Girl.”
Other popular live numbers were included in the set including “I Do,” and “Perfect” among others.
She concluded her set with a mash up of Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber and 
ended her set with her version of Sweet Child Of Mine.”
She had the audience singing along with a couple of covers including Cee Lo Green’s” ”Forget You,” which was a request from her mom who was in the audience.
A special surprise was Hamilton’s The Human Race aka Adam Carter, who sounded like and acoustic Tool.
He tap danced his way on a variety of effects and sampling pedals, through a set of original music. He looped a variety of guitar riffs, beat boxing, vocals and even a kazoo solo on the “robots” he placed on the stage.
He sang several songs about robots including, ironically, an anti-technology song called “Set it
on Fire.”
He sang another very cool song dedicated to friends “messed up” in the G-20 protests last year.
Fellow Hamiltonite Kirby closed the evening with a strong set of sensitive songwriter originals which reminded me of Danny Michel.
He had an impressive voice and had a lot of pleasant highlights including “Coffee and Cigarettes,” “Wicked Romeo” and “Hailey,” which Kirby noted was about a “girl I haven’t met yet.”
