Beige Shelter is an ambitious and eclectic indie rock band from Toronto that aims to unit hearts, soul, fire, and passion through their love for music.
The band’s music is a spectrum of emotions and colours (red for anger, blue for sadness, green for envy, yellow for joy), and it all serves as a shelter to express their music and to connect with their audience.
Beige Shelter seeks to promote betterment of mental health, self-acceptance, resilience, love, and championing the fights for human rights through their music.
Biography
What is that which separate humans from machines?
Feelings and emotions!
Being human is like drawing paint from a palette of colours used to express joy, love, hope, anger, sadness, apathy, grief and more. Colours across the spectrum ranging from white, blue, red, green, and yellow symbolize these emotions. These converge to the mother colour beige, which represents the complex combination of emotions that make us humans and individuals.
Music has always been a shelter for bandmates Neel Modi, Tom Kuczynski, Ben Barzegar and Adi Aman as they evoke all these colours through a variety of songs ranging from delicate melodies to raw intensity.
Beige Shelter is a collaborative band, creating songs that begin with individual expressions on trials, tribulations, and glories of life, but come together in the band in a unified singular expression. The band’s songs often seek to promote the betterment of mental health, self-acceptance, resilience, love, and championing human rights.
Their debut album “Rumours We Make, Paths We Take” was released in 2016 on all digital streaming music services. The band’s album release concert played to a crowd of over 200 people at the Opera House in Toronto, which also raised $1,000 CDN for the Canadian Mental Health Association. That same year, Beige Shelter released the mental health positive single Light Your Way, which continues to be a highlight of the band’s live shows.
The band was nominated for Best New Artist at the Mississauga Music Awards in 2018.
Beige Shelter has regrouped following the COVID-19 pandemic and continues to perform in clubs and festivals in Toronto, Mississauga, and beyond.
Venues & Events
Beige Shelter has performed at various clubs, music events and festivals in the past, including:
- Adelaide Hall
- Amsterdam Bicycle Club
- Cameron House
- Canada One Family Network
- Centennial Park Ribfest
- Clarke Memorial Hall
- Cock and Pheasant Bar
- Etobicoke Local
- Free Times Cafe
- Global Music Festival at Mel Lastman Square
- Hard Luck Bar
- Horseshoe Tavern
- Lee’s Palace
- Linsmore Tavern
- Marco Polo Bar
- May Bar
- Mississauga Celebration Square Amphitheatre
- Mississauga Multicultural Festival
- Mod Club
- Nocturne Bar
- Ode to Canada Guitar Tour
- Rec Room Square OnePage One Coffee Bar
- Rehearsal Factory Mississauga
- Relish Bar
- Richmond Hill Multicultural Festival
- Sneaky Dee’s
- Soho Bar and Grill
- The Cavern Bar
- The Opera House
- The Supermarket
- TO Lounge
- World Music Festival in Unionville
- YYZ Live at Pearson Airport
- Adelaide Hall
- Amsterdam Bicycle Club
- Cameron House
- Canada One Family Network
- Centennial Park Ribfest
- Clarke Memorial Hall
- Cock and Pheasant Bar
- Etobicoke Local
- Free Times Cafe
- Global Music Festival at Mel Lastman Square
- Hard Luck Bar
- Horseshoe Tavern
- Lee’s Palace
- Linsmore Tavern
- Marco Polo Bar
- May Bar
- Mississauga Celebration Square Amphitheatre
- Mississauga Multicultural Festival
- Mod Club
- Nocturne Bar
- Rec Room Square OnePage One Coffee Bar
- Rehearsal Factory Mississauga
- Relish Bar
- Richmond Hill Multicultural Festival
- Sneaky Dee’s
- Soho Bar and Grill
- The Cavern Bar
- The Opera House
- The Supermarket
- TO Lounge
- World Music Festival in Unionville
- YYZ Live at Pearson Airport
For fans of
You’ll love Beige Shelter if you’re a fan of: The National, R.E.M, Queens of the Stone Age, The Eagles, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Damien Rice, Wilco, Interpol, Modest Mouse, Bon Iver, Alice in Chains, Deftones, Slowdive, Leonard Cohen, Radiohead, Blur