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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 […]

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When he was young, Sam played punk rock. Three chords, although on certain nights he reduced this to two because the third seemed entitled. He struck the guitar as if […]

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In certain praying mantis relationships, the female is approached by the male, who has evidently received no briefing whatsoever. He climbs onto her with romance in his heart and perhaps […]

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Eli could perform before two thousand people without fear, but he could not board an airplane without becoming certain that gravity had finally noticed him. This was inconvenient because he […]