The owner of a Toronto music venue is crying foul after he received a $490 ticket for flyers posted around town advertising an event at his venue.

Sam Grosso, owner of The Cadillac Lounge near Dufferin and Queen streets, told CP24 that local band Big Tobacco & the Pickers were scheduled to play at his establishment on May 14.

According to the venue’s website, the band was holding a CD release party for their new album.

Grosso said that after a bylaw officer discovered posters promoting the event plastered on city property, he dished out a ticket to Grosso.

Despite telling the officer that he had nothing to do with the posters, Grosso was fined and warned that he could face further fines for each individual poster.

Upset about the ticket, Grosso took to Facebook, posting an image of the fine and saying that it is inconsistent with the vision of a ‘music city’ that Mayor John Tory has trumpeted.

“So big tobacco & the pickers are working hard on promoting their show tonight at the Cadillac lounge and the city of Toronto gives the Cadillac Lounge a $400.00 fine for illegal postering. How is this promoting Toronto as a music city,” Grosso said on his Facebook page.

After the event, Grosso took to his page again and asked his Facebook friends to write to the mayor and the bylaw officer to try and get the bylaw changed.

“Live music is an art form and we should be promoting it and as Martha Reeves says we should all be dancing in the street. Let’s work together and get this bylaw abolished,” he wrote, using the hash tag ‪#‎musiccitynorth‬.

Mayor John Tory’s office did not immediately return calls for comment.

In March, Tory led a trade mission to Austin, Texas to check out the city’s famous South by Southwest music festival and to learn how to grow Toronto’s own music scene.

In an interview at the time, Tory said he wants to help make Toronto more “attractive and hip” to young people through a renewed music scene.

Grosso said that he plans to fight the fine in court.

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