Mike Daley & Mike Ferolia

Mike Daley is a guitarist and singer based in Toronto. A professional musician for over 30 years, Mike has toured Canada, the United States and England and has recorded extensively in a variety of musical styles. He is a longtime member of Fraser/Daley with bassist Alec Fraser and is also proud to work with a variety of bands around Toronto including the Tom Waits Appreciation Congregation, the Travellers and others.

Mike began his career singing in bars and clubs in Kitchener and Toronto Ontario. Having had the pleasure of singing in bands with some of the best musicians in Canada, his career progressed quickly. With as many as three weekly gigs at any time from 2006 to 2016, Mike was able to hone a performance style that remains refreshingly engaging to this day.

The stage wasn’t Mike’s only domain. In the 2010s, the booming Toronto session scene also embraced him as a vocalist and even occasionally, a voice-over actor. Mike could be heard on the radio for years on the heels of commercials for Molson Canadian, Swiss Chalet, Mini Wheats, Casino Rama & more. He can also be heard on Jesse Cook’s ‘Nomad’, and Amy Sky’s ‘With This Kiss’ albums as well as countless independent records as both a bassist & vocalist.

In the mid to late 2010s, as the venues he frequented began to close (Joe Mama’s, Bar Italia, College Street Bar), Mike knew it was time for a change. By that time he had already begun honing a new skill, the bass guitar. Under the influence of some of his musical heroes, most notably, Sting, Mike found a new outlet and a fresh connection to music. From 2012 up to the present day, he’s been able to transform his successful and widely diverse career primarily as a vocalist, now working nearly exclusively as a vocalist/bassist.