What do you do after you've made a million dollars, toured extensively playing to sellout crowds in goodly venues? If you're Steven Page of Barenaked Ladies, you perform there a dozen songs of your favourite artists accompanied by a chamber music ensemble.

Friday night's Songbook 2 program with the Art of metre Ensemble (AoTE) at Harbourfront's Enwave show business had a little something for everybody. age's songbook included tunes he said he wanted to peep constantly since hearing them for the from the start set on Brave New Waves.

Songs like Elvis Costello's I Want You, an wild song that I've seen performed by Fiona Apple live. But this stark arrangement with the AoTE by Robert Carli had finical bumping. Other selections included interpretations of songs by The Mountain Goats, The Magnetic Fields, The Divine Comedy and The Weakerthans.

Read on for more re-examination of Friday's authenticate and a scale into next year's Songbook....