SERENA RYDER AT THE DAKOTA

Director: Robert Lang, 2009 
The Dakota Tavern is a honky-tonk basement bar in the middle of a burgeoning hipsterville. And to overworked singer/guitarist Serena Ryder, it's home. When she first moved to Toronto from Peterborough, she found the city intimidating and cold - until she met a gang of music outlaws who became her closest comrades. While Serena's career took off and sent her flying around the world, those comrades opened the Dakota, a musical sanctuary for others just like them. Now, the award-winning, chart-topping, jet-setting performer knows she can always find refuge there, whether she wants to chill anonymously or get up and jam. On a rare day off, Serena kicks back at the Dakota and explains how this hideaway has become a real community. Featuring special live performances with Serena, Dakota, houseband The Beauties and singer Damnhait Doyle.

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