Dan Mangan with Jenn Grant

Name: Dan Mangan with Jenn Grant
Start: 2026-11-16T14:30:00-05:00
End: 2026-11-16
Location: The Spire

A Monday night with Dan Mangan and Jenn Grant is a pretty good reason to put something on the calendar before the weekend. Flying V Productions brings the two-time JUNO-winning Vancouver songwriter to The Spire, with Grant opening the evening.

Mangan has a knack for songs that make room for wit, uncertainty and the odd detail that stays with you. If you’ve only listened at home, this is a chance to hear how those songs land in a room full of people. The all-ages show is general admission, with doors at 6:30 p.m.

Two songwriters in the same room

Mangan is a Vancouver singer-songwriter with two JUNO Awards and three Polaris Music Prize nominations. He’s worked with bigger arrangements and quieter ones over the years. For Natural Light, his recent record, he and his band recorded over six days at a lakeside cabin. That’s a useful bit of context if you’re curious about the material he’s been making lately. The music has room for people to play off one another and for a small lyrical detail to carry a song.

Jenn Grant is a reason to get to The Spire for the beginning of the show. The Nova Scotia singer-songwriter has a catalogue of her own, and her name is on the bill as the special guest. If you know one artist and are new to the other, give a song or two a listen before Monday. You’ll have something to recognise, and there’s a good chance a different song will be the one you want to look up on the way home.

One nice thing about having two songwriters on the bill is that you can hear two different ways of taking an ordinary scene and turning it into a song. Bring someone you’ve been meaning to catch up with and make an evening of it downtown. Flying V Productions lists general admission and welcomes all ages. Check your tickets for entry details and plan around the door time if you’d like to be there for Grant’s opening set.

When and where

November 16, 2026 at 7:30 p.m. · Performance Hall, The Spire, 82 Sydenham Street, Kingston. Tickets $37.83 as listed by The Spire. See event details and tickets.