Victor Tomiczek

Cape Breton

Victor Tomiczek is a Cape Breton songwriter and musician who helped to produce one of the island’s most innovative musical projects. Tomiczek fronts the rock and roll band Ladyslippers and writes and performs his own acoustic brand of troubadour country songs.

Since 2005, Tomiczek has toured Australia, Ireland, Scotland, England, and dipped his toes in waters from St. John’s, Newfoundland to Victoria, British Columbia as the banjo and guitar player for the Tom Fun Orchestra. Co-producing the Cape Breton Protest Song Project in 2011, Tomiczek recruited an ensemble of local musicians to write music to the protest poetry of the early 1900s labour movement, bridging two artistic eras and carrying forward the words of the workers from Cape Breton’s strong industrial past.