Today in Toronto: Open Roof Festival, Art Battle, Paul Simon, Dixie Chicks, Smash at the Gardiner Museum

Today in Toronto is a great day! Why? Because the Open Roof Festival returns fir another year. Now in its seventh year, the film, beer and music summer series opens with a show from Toronto robot band Matrox, followed by a screening of Everybody Wants Some!! That's the sequel to Dazed and Confused.

There are also a handful of other worthwhile things to check out below.

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• Toronto Open Roof Festival - Opening night (99 Sudbury)
• Art Battle: Toronto city finals (The Great Hall)
• The Dixie Chicks (Molson Candadian Amphitheatre)
• Paul Simon (Sony Centre)
• Smash: Instant Classic (Gardiner Museum)
• Shab-e She'r Poetry Night XLI (Beit Zatoun)

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Photo from Open Roof Festival's Instagram.

by Phil Villeneuve via blogTO