A new book by Daniel Tate and Rob Bowman called The Flyer Vault: 150 Years of Toronto Concert History will document dozens of flyers and concert stories spanning 150 years.
“It gives people of any age group a sense of how rich and vibrant this city’s cultural life always has been,” Bowman explains, according to CBC. “We’re incredibly lucky musically and apparently have been since 1840.”
Tate thought of sharing old concert flyers when he rediscovered a box in his parent’s home back in 2015, which stashed over 3,000 music flyers and posters he had collected in the 1990s and 2000s. He then started scanning the flyers, which he collected while working with R&B and hip hop promoter R.E.M.G., and then uploading them to an Instagram account called @theflyervault.
Soon after, Tate and Bowman met up for a meeting to inquire about funk artist George Clinton’s life in Toronto, when they came up with the idea of a book that chronicles Toronto’s concert history. Now, The Flyer Vault: 150 Years of Toronto Concert History offers up a collection of flyers, posters, and a map of old and current music venues in the city.