Music

Toronto's Forest City Lovers announce final show

by Nicole Villeneuve

Kat Burns, leader of Toronto’s orchestral indie-pop group Forest City Lovers, took to the band’s website this morning to announce the band would be calling it a day in pursuit of other projects.

“I am both excited and nervous to announce that after our show in Toronto on April 19, I am putting the Forest City Lovers name on an indefinite hiatus,” Burns began. “This is not the end of my music making – far from it – but it is the beginning of a new chapter. All of us are doing different things (school! work! music!) and living in different cities and it feels right to start something new…This is not an ending, merely a new beginning. I’ll be releasing all my future music under the name KASHKA.”

The band’s final show, as Burns mentioned, will take place on April 19 at the Great Hall in Toronto. Forest City Lovers were part of Toronto’s Bellwoods musical community in its heyday, which itself has been growing up and out of the nest over the past few years.

Read the entirety of the band’s goodbye note here, and watch the band’s most recent video, “Keep the Kids Inside,” below.