TORONTO - If you've ever wondered which of Canadian music couple Chantal Kreviazuk and Raine Maida's three young sons might follow in their footsteps, the answer became pretty clear on Tuesday night at Massey Hall.

Just as Kreviazuk was winding up her marathon two-hour-and-a-20-minute show at the venue, middle son Lucca - age four - appeared at the microphone to sing more than a few verses of Invincible, from her latest album, Plain Jane, while mom accompanied him on piano.

It was pretty adorable - eldest son Rowan - age five - also introduced Lucca after earlier interrupting Mommy to ask what time she would be finished - and Kreviazuk quickly realized he was a tough act to follow but plunged ahead anyways.

The tune closed out her concert, which had been previously dominated by talk of Our Lady Peace frontman Maida, who opened for Kreviazuk along with girl group Dala, and their three boys who could be seen backstage and heard in their seats throughout the night.

The 35-year-old Kreviazuk, a native of Winnipeg who now divides her time between Toronto and Los Angeles, also showed some pretty cute home movies of the children up on a large screen behind her and bandmates - Kevin Fox on cello-acoustic guitar, Karen Graves on violin and Randy Cooke on drums.

As she explained, Toronto has become as much a home to her as Winnipeg and it was obviously a thrill for her to play Massey Hall in front of so many friends and family.

"I don't want this to ever end," she said adding later: "What a night! I'll never forget it as long as I live."

Dressed in a long black gown and black high heels, the latter which she frequently took off while seated at her piano, Kreviazuk opened the evening with the uptempo Today from Plain Jane and was pleased when the audience recognized the song's piano intro.

"You have the new album, Thank God!" said Kreviazuk, who is nothing if not outspoken and opinionated.

She happily chatted away between every song, even yelling at youngest son, Salvador - aged one - "Sal - zip it!" when he could be heard gurgling loudly in the audience.

On a more serious note, another friend who had lost a daughter to liver cancer, prompted Kreviazuk to write "a song to be sad to" called Not One Drop: Sylvie's Song, just two weeks ago, and she performed the heartbreaking homage which has yet to be recorded or released.

There is a directness and vulnerability about Kreviazuk, which along with her big, powerful voice, makes her hard to dislike although sometimes she does get carried away.

Her tirade about Tiger Woods - "He should not call me! I'd rip that guy a new one!" - seemed unnecessary in the context of her concert.

And she could have shortened her set on a night when people began leaving in droves a good 45 minutes before it ended in order to avoid the anticipated first winter storm of the season.

Songs standouts turned out to be Kreviazuk's solo turn on piano for This Life, her Dala-accompanied God Made Me, her earlier hits, Surrounded, and Before You, and new songs Today, 5000 Days, The Way, the jazzy title track from Plain Jane featured Brayden Baird (Feist) on trumpet, and yes, Invincible.

Also good was when she strapped on an acoustic guitar -"I'm a hack!" she declared - for the new song, Halfway Around The World, written about someone she said she "hated and despised," and the older hit, Far Away.

Kreviazuk even graciously shared lead vocals with Fox, who took over for a beautiful cover of Joni Mitchell's River, and Graves, who handled those duties on Isabel, written with her other band, The Done Me Wrongs.

SET LIST

Today

Time

Ghosts of You

Half of Me

Wonderful

Ordinary People

Feels Like Home

This Life

My Hometown

God Made Me

Not One Drop; Sylvie's Song

Surrounded

5000 Days

Before You

Isabel

River

Say the Word

Halfway Around the World

Far Away

Leaving on a Jet Plane

The Way

All I Can Do

ENCORE

Plain Jane

Invincible