Thu, July 16th
This month, Frank Fiction is joined by Hannah Sloot—co-founder of the Shaky Knees Club—alongside Joel Cumby, playing heartland Americana from Hamilton’s East End. Together, they’ll share the stage, trading stories and stripping down their songs in an intimate, collaborative circle.
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What is Songs In The Round?
Songs in the Round is an intimate concert where multiple songwriters share the stage, trading songs and stories one by one. Inspired by Frank Fiction’s decade as a songwriter in Nashville and the famous Bluebird Cafe, we’re bringing this unique format to Crown & Press, stripping songs to their essence: human, conversational, and often spontaneously collaborative. All evening, songwriters take turns sharing the story behind and then performing a song, offering the audience a rare look at the craft behind the music, with others sometimes joining in. It’s a listening-room experience built on connection, surprise, and songs as they were written: up close and personal.
Special Guests
Hannah Sloots
Hannah Sloots is a Hamilton singer-songwriter whose writing moves between folk and jazz, shaped by a background in classical voice and years singing jazz standards before she turned to her own material. In 2023, she co-founded the Shaky Knees Club, a rotating songwriters’ collective that runs monthly workshops and seasonal showcases across the city, which CBC profiled in 2026. Her most recent work appears on MIRRORS: Live at Last Supper Books, a collaborative live album produced through the collective with support from the City of Hamilton’s City Enrichment Fund.
Joel Cumby
Starting his career as a touring member of Mugshot, including a stint on the Warped Tour, Joel Cumby has been a fixture of the Hamilton music scene ever since relocating here in 2009. A songwriter and longtime champion of local music, he released the solo album Empty Highway (2019), working the plainspoken heartland Americana vein of Steve Earle, Billy Bragg, and Jeff Tweedy. He is also the founder and face of Stipley’s Barbershop on King Street East, an east-end fixture in its own right.
Who is Frank Fiction?
Frank Fiction is an alt-folk/americana project from Hamilton songwriter Elias Dummer, a Juno Award–winning recording artist whose career includes eight Billboard Top 40 singles, five Top 40 albums, and over 100 million streams. After a decade in Nashville, Dummer returned to his hometown of Hamilton to co-found Crown & Press, where he now hosts Songs In The Round—a full-circle moment that brings together a lifelong love of songs with a room where art meets everyday life.
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