This page is dedicated to the memory of Hugh Carson.
Hugh was a lover of music, life and good friends. For many years he and his brother Richard talked about starting a folk club in Toronto. “Where can Connie Kaldor play in Toronto?!” was Hugh’s lament. In the late 1990s Hugh and Richard started to get a little more serious about the possibilty of starting a room in Toronto. Unfortunately, Hugh was diagnosed with cancer in the fall of 1999 and passed away just 4 weeks later. His brother, Richard persevered and opened a club in April 2001. He named the club Hugh’s Room, after his brother.
In the last couple of years Hugh found himself working often on Saturday nights and we didn’t see him enough. This past fall he was notably ‘not there’ and it came as a great shock to us all when we finally heard that he was in a losing battle with cancer.