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A very nice show in Wolfville, back at the Al Whittle Theatre. Beforehand, I had convinced myself that perhaps three people had bought tickets. It turned out to be thirty. […]

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I did not sleep well in my hotel room in Truro, Nova Scotia. The sheets gave off the unmistakable scent of a hotel trying to establish an alibi. This is […]

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I was reading about a university in South Korea rejecting applicants who had excellent test scores because of bullying incidents in their past. On one hand, good. There ought to […]

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The Port Royal/ Annapolis show was uniquely magical. Every time you arrive somewhere and are told that advance ticket sales are already healthy, you find yourself facing the best problem […]

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After the final song at the Greenslades concert in Sackville, I walked offstage and a woman turned to me and said, “Marry me.” I believe this was less a formal […]

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When I first began teaching, I assumed the students would be interested in what I knew about music and its history. This was vanity disguised as pedagogy. They were not […]

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Hold the pose. Stay with the strange chord. Breathe into the discomfort. Do not resolve to the major. By the end, I had not become flexible or commercially viable. But […]

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I flew to Halifax to begin the tour. Flying is not something I enjoy. I understand that the airplane is statistically safe, which is comforting information right up until the […]

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I walked into a random barbershop on the road and asked for a trim. This seemed like a complete sentence. The barber cut my hair. Our relationship was functioning very […]

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There was a musician who wanted to become better. He knew what this required. He would have to stop returning to the things his hands already knew. Familiar music gave […]